I received the book Overrated: Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World than Actually Changing the World by Eugene Cho through Family Christian Bloggers in exchange for an honest review.

This book held a mirror to my heart and I have to admit, at times, I was not happy with what I saw.

Using humor and self-confession, Eugene Cho challenges the reader to live a sacrificial life not one plagued with selfies and hashtages. We can talk about justice, theorize how to help, or get our hands dirty and find out what is truly needed.

Many times our good intentions bring harm rather then good. If we are truly interested in social justice then we need to get past what makes a good headline, we need to get past our god complex, and we need to learn alongside others how to make the world better.

I have this terrible confession. I want to fix everyone’s problems. I want to jump in the mud with them and give them a shove out. I want to be their savior. But guess what…. they already have one and my job is to point them to Him. There has to be less of me and more of Him. One of my weaknesses is trying to band-aide over the problem, giving a hand out rather then a hand up. It is simpler to throw money and resources at a problem then to invest in a person. I can honestly say that before reading this book I had no idea my good intentions could be detrimental. I took a good long look at my heart while reading Overrated, I inventoried my attitude, and I realized how messy my good intentions have been at times. This book was humbling.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who has ever:

• felt that they can not make a difference
• wanted to give because they don’t want to be forgotten
• believed we as Christians have been called to make this world better.

Though this book brought with it a lot of self inspection it was not wrapped in guilt or shame. Rather it is a confession of a man who is interested in removing self and displaying Christ’s love to the world. It is a call to do the same.