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Amy Peterson grew up in church, where she loved the adventurous stories of missionaries in foreign countries who won people to the Lord. After college, she was ready to “do big things for God” on the mission field herself. Dangerous Territory is a captivating memoir that tells Amy’s personal journey from wide-eyed adventurer to questioning believer to simply a beloved child of God. Her story will challenge your notion of “mission work,” showing how you can have a vital relationship with God that naturally spills over to affect others.

Dangerous Territory My Misguided Quest to Save the World edition by Amy Peterson Religion Spirituality eBooks

I work in a church department that receives a lot of people coming back from these 2-3 year experiences and a common malady is the feeling of failure or regret. Part of the problem, of course, is that most of what is written is fifteen years in the making and shows just the highlights. Amy doesn’t do this. Her account is one we all wish everyone would write and even just a few sentences in, one realizes they have found something truly special in Amy’s writing. If you have a responsibility to care for such people then you simply must buy this book.

In one particularly arresting scene, Amy recounts the effort and inconvenience of putting together a presentation for a church at home who asked her to do it, only to find out that something she had said caused the audience to become angry. I’ll leave it to the reader to discover why, but this is the first time I have seen anyone address the sensitivity of what one feels when writing back home and probably what Amy is feeling now when she boldly gives it to us like it is. The book’s overarching story is in Amy’s friendship with a girl who falls head over heels in love with Jesus, and shows an early penchant for evangelism. When things go south, as even Jesus said we would have trouble, everyone involved is taken off guard by just how fast and how much.

While never losing total confidence that God must somehow know what he is doing, Amy still has to wrestle with herself. The book’s greatest strength is that it somehow manages to encompass large swaths of history without leaving the realm of her own experience. Admittedly though, I can’t give this book five stars like many others, because I disagree with one of the book’s major premises.

It’s not too much of a spoiler because it’s evident on both the back of the book and the prologue (and the subtitle) that Amy goes a little too far in disparaging the missionary movement. For instance, she bemoans the excessive embellishment of missionary David Brainard’s presumably pathetic short career from almost the first page, but then admits that these kinds of accounts are the whole reason she went at all, and there are good things that obviously wouldn't have happened had she not participated in this 'misguided' quest. Perhaps to encourage people like herself who feel like they are coming off the field too early to do something less important than this, she seems to imply that overseas work is not so necessarily important, at least no more than doing something important at home. But almost one fifth of the world still has no access to the gospel. This work is important, and a soldier serving overseas should be given more honor than a plumber at home because she takes up more risk (Phil 2:29). In my humble opinion, to bridge the information gap (not just love gap) by entering the dangerous and complicated territory that Amy describes so well is one of the boldest and riskiest things we can do.

Product details File Size 2180 KB Print Length 224 pages Publisher Discovery House (January 31, 2017) Publication Date January 31, 2017 Language English ASIN B01MRCB54Y

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Dangerous Territory My Misguided Quest to Save the World edition by Amy Peterson Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews

I loved this story, anyone going on mission trips should read it to gain more perspective. I am struggling myself with my place in all of this.
This book was amazing! It helped me think through a decision I was making regarding moving to another country. Amy writes about complex experiences with grace, poetry, and compassion.
I felt as if I was reading my own thoughts many times concerning missions, the Gospel, a Savior Complex, and vocation. Amy does a beautiful job of making sense of all of this in this book. Thank you for writing, Amy!
excellent first-hand account of mission efforts today and some misconceptions/problems that can hamper effective witness...many that can not be avoided. Very readable account
Loved this book. It spoke to deep places in my heart where my own shortened missionary commitment had left open wounds. I was so blessed by Amy's insight into struggles with understanding and accepting the love of God. Thank you Amy for the courage to question, wrestle and express the unmatched grace, love and mercy of God for us.
The author’s creative style and storytelling ability is evident throughout the book. There is a certain artistic approach here, one might even say a revival of good artistry in Christian literature. There also exists a sort of poetic prose that I appreciated greatly. The author quotes missionaries of the past, some well-known, others forgotten in the annals of time. Because of this, it is clear that the author did a fair share of reading, research, and exploration of the missionary enterprise. Great read!
This book has been like a healing balm to my soul. I love Amy's writing style. She is so raw, honest, and wrestling through out the story. She starts off as a starry eyed young Christian girl wanting to be a missionary and ends on a very REAL note. I was so thankful for the way that she was able to articulate each step... excitement, doubt, hesitancy, heartbreak, uncertainty...etc...

I highly recommend this book!
I work in a church department that receives a lot of people coming back from these 2-3 year experiences and a common malady is the feeling of failure or regret. Part of the problem, of course, is that most of what is written is fifteen years in the making and shows just the highlights. Amy doesn’t do this. Her account is one we all wish everyone would write and even just a few sentences in, one realizes they have found something truly special in Amy’s writing. If you have a responsibility to care for such people then you simply must buy this book.

In one particularly arresting scene, Amy recounts the effort and inconvenience of putting together a presentation for a church at home who asked her to do it, only to find out that something she had said caused the audience to become angry. I’ll leave it to the reader to discover why, but this is the first time I have seen anyone address the sensitivity of what one feels when writing back home and probably what Amy is feeling now when she boldly gives it to us like it is. The book’s overarching story is in Amy’s friendship with a girl who falls head over heels in love with Jesus, and shows an early penchant for evangelism. When things go south, as even Jesus said we would have trouble, everyone involved is taken off guard by just how fast and how much.

While never losing total confidence that God must somehow know what he is doing, Amy still has to wrestle with herself. The book’s greatest strength is that it somehow manages to encompass large swaths of history without leaving the realm of her own experience. Admittedly though, I can’t give this book five stars like many others, because I disagree with one of the book’s major premises.

It’s not too much of a spoiler because it’s evident on both the back of the book and the prologue (and the subtitle) that Amy goes a little too far in disparaging the missionary movement. For instance, she bemoans the excessive embellishment of missionary David Brainard’s presumably pathetic short career from almost the first page, but then admits that these kinds of accounts are the whole reason she went at all, and there are good things that obviously wouldn't have happened had she not participated in this 'misguided' quest. Perhaps to encourage people like herself who feel like they are coming off the field too early to do something less important than this, she seems to imply that overseas work is not so necessarily important, at least no more than doing something important at home. But almost one fifth of the world still has no access to the gospel. This work is important, and a soldier serving overseas should be given more honor than a plumber at home because she takes up more risk (Phil 229). In my humble opinion, to bridge the information gap (not just love gap) by entering the dangerous and complicated territory that Amy describes so well is one of the boldest and riskiest things we can do.