The Book of Christian  (English, Paperback, Lombardi Nicholas Griffin)

The book begins chronicling the character of Christian. It starts with a look into His privileged upbringing in middle class America. It describes Christian’s faith as being extremely real and visceral. Christian moves to Boston and one day prays this prayer: “God I want you to unify all Christians into one movement and I want to lead it.” God answers His prayer and shows Christian a passage of scripture that said, “If you obey my commands like David did, I will be with you like I was with David, will build you a house like I built him and will give Israel to you.” On this same day Christian was anointed with oil, confirming God’s call. He meets a girl and through her enjoys a first member of the movement. He loses His job and began to encounter a yearning to be homeless. He was without a job and the white boy from the suburbs in Him wanted to experience a homeless stint to grow as a person. He experiences the rough and tumble part of shelter life but one day met a man named Clarence. Clarence was a gentle soul but had a secret— he had a demon that manifested in him. Christian treasured the experiences with the demons because of how they strengthened His faith. Soon Christian writes His family asking if they would put Him up for a few months in Atlanta, they agreed. In Atlanta He has a terrifying experience with who He thought was God at the time but was actually the Devil. The experience landed Him into the hands of a psych ward. He wrestles with Himself and the doctors trying to tell them how fine He was but the doctors failed to understand the different spiritual realities that were present in Christian’s case; so He trudged along, enduring the 21st century psychiatric world. Christian by this time knew that He not only would have a church movement but that He would be the temporal King of Israel. He would begin as prime minister then convert the country into a monarchy like the ancient kings in Israel’s past. Christian meets another girl and is told that He will have multiple wives. The book ends after describing how Christian would be the leader of a conglomerate before becoming King. The book ends all of a sudden and that’s the magic of it.