(Un)Qualified: How God Uses Broken People to Do Big Things Hardcover – March 1, 2016

Pastor Furtick has yet again written a book that is both powerful for the individual, and invigorating for Christ's Church. Full disclosure, I am an Elevator and member of Pastor Furtick's church, Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC, and thank God everyday that my family and I have the opportunity to receive teachings directly from this amazing man of God every weekend. I remember, a long time ago, wondering what it was like to live in Australia near Hillsong Church, and how amazing it must be for those lucky members to be able to receive a blessing and teaching each weekend from such a game changing, world renowned church, and now my family and I know exactly how it feels, cause we're some of the lucky ones.What I love most about this entire book is how it came to be. This is only a minor spoiler alert that is described literally in the opening lines of the book, but to make it quick and simple, I'll shorten it. One day, while preparing for church, Pastor Furtick had a YouTube video playing of a well-known and respected theologian who was being interviewed. During a lightning round of questions, this theologian was asked to summarize the names that followed with one word. When it came time for my pastors name to be called, the man's response was "unqualified." Hence, the basis of this book. Like Pastor Furtick, and all the rest who are blessed by this book, I am thankful for both the algorithm within YouTube that suggested this video to him, and for the theologians response, because it caused a revolution within my pastor, and subsequently within our church, and now within our nation and world. We are ALL (UN)Qualified in some way or another, and in fact, as this book illustrates, God often uses the least qualified among us to do the most miraculous and tremendous works.If you've ever felt that a part of you, whether it be your spirituality, physicality, morality, personality, and all the other "ity" words you can think of has held you back, or kept you from achieving a goal or desire of your heart, you need to read this book. If you are reading my review right now and saying, "Well, I have none of those 'ity' words I can identify with," then you most definitely need to read this book because your lying to yourself, and holding yourself back from what God has planned to do through you, for you, and for his church and this world!God Bless you All!

Enjoyed every chapter. Before I bought the book I wasn’t sure what it would say, but I found it helpful in more ways than I thought. I feel more prepared to move forward in my walk with Christ.

Easy to read and understand. Spiritual and motivational book.

"(Un)Qualified" is for those who feel like they need to fix their weaknesses before they can be acceptable to God. The author talked about God's name being "I AM" and how it matters how we fill in our "third words" ("I am ____"). Maybe the weaknesses we're most concerned with aren't the ones God's working on, and God uses people who are willing to depend on Him. He talked about not comparing ourselves with others, setting the correct goals, and many other topics.He referred to Jacob from the Bible, his own life, and others to illustrate his insights. It's written in a casual tone with mild humor, and it felt like an "I'm in the trenches with you" pep talk. He made many good points. Overall, I'd recommend this book to those who feel trapped by their weaknesses.Here are some quotes (from an ARC, so they may not perfectly match the final copy): From page 53: "The belief that God is more interested in our perfection than our relationship with him is the birthplace of insecurity." From page 124: "...our relationship with God will continue for eternity. That should tell us something: we shouldn't lose sight of what is eternal in our efforts to improve what is temporary."I received this book as a review copy from the publisher.

This book is for the feeling people get of being, feeling unqualified for things like the ministry, being a good example, being able to help others, etc. Not for the heavier mistakes that people make sometimes, that can sometimes be an instant disqualification from doing more, like...important things in life. Like a calling to the 5-fold ministry (Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor, Teacher) for example, amongst other things, in certain circumstances. In my opinion. But I still consider it a good read. It took me 2 weeks to read and would recommend it. It has the best teaching on the life of Jacob that I've ever heard. This book helped me a great deal, to accept my mistakes even though I won't be able to enter full time ministry like I had hoped for. Very good book!

This book is wonderful! It is actually surprisingly good! If you're expecting it to be another self-help book that will show you how to propel yourself past your weaknesses, this isn't the book for you. But if you really want to look at your weaknesses in light of Scripture and finally be free from the insecurities that come from being just as human as Paul or Jacob or Moses or any other Spiritual giant that God used to glorify His Son, then buy this book. Here's a quote from the first chapter:"I used to think that the answer to my failures was to fix them, that the solution to my weaknesses was to replace them with strengths. I assumed the secret to success was to appear as perfect, flawless, and superhuman as possible. I concluded that my character an my competency qualified me or disqualified me. "But God's qualification system is much different from ours. An so is his way of approaching our weaknesses. Rather than stressing and obsessing over our lack, we nee to find a different qualifer."If you've spent any amount of time on the merry go round of forever trying to fix yourself so that you'll be "good enough," I can't recommend this book enough.

Best book ever

A good view a God's called. How God uses weak and small people to do great things. It's a Good book

Don't buy this from Amazon Asia-Pacific Holdings Private Limited, they have misprinted every copy of the book and from page 74 onwards, it loops back to page 56. Got it replaced a few times and every time it had the same misprint.

Steven put into perspective and words that God loved me as I am, I have cared little of what people thought of me only what God thought of me from an early age and I have been wonderfully blessed by God with a wonderful very large family and friends

very good book to read