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Reviewer:  Paul McShane, an author, businessman and journalist.
Date:  May edition of Good News Etc.

This is a small book with a very big message that I highly recommend for pastors and teachers, as well as for any reader who would like to get closer to his fellow man. Subtitled, “Real Medicine For the Soul,” Bob Maddux has used the well-known story from the tenth chapter of the Book of Luke to show how to bring comfort and healing to those in need or in suffering.

We all learned the story of the Good Samaritan, as children in Sunday school or later in life as we studied the Gospel of Luke. Never, however, have I seen this story used as an outreach tool the way that Maddux does in this book from Leafwood Publishers. But then, outreach is something he knows well, either as pastor of the Christian Life Assembly (now The Connection) in Poway, a ministry he founded in 1988, or through Project Compassion, a medical mission he co-founded, providing medical care and the Good News to people in over 22 nations for more than 11 years.

Maddux bares his soul in this book in a way that is almost shocking. If nothing else, it is refreshing. He was, indeed, a child of the 60s and its culture of “sex, drugs and rock and roll.” He even knew Janis Joplin before she died of a drug overdose. So when he speaks of helping those who have been beaten down by the world and robbed of their spirits, he comes from a place of intimate knowledge and understanding.

When you read this book, you know immediately that Maddox has “walked the walk” and earned the right to say what he does. He's “been there, done that” and it shows in the open, matter-of-fact way he talks about his life and his stripes and his Lord.

This is a book that teaches loving, caring, sharing, healing and helping. It's an easy read filled with smiles and tears that will stay with you long after you've put it down.

Reviewer: Bob Tompkins
Date: April 1, 2004

PB,

I finished reading your book today (Thursday) on my lunch break. The book is beautifully written and I especially liked how you summarized and brought everything together in the last chapter. The analogy of the parable of the Good Samaritan and our own need for healing and restoration I thought was brilliant. It is a book that one can read over and over again as a reminder of how we should deal with our fellow "travelers" with patience, love, grace, and accountability. Your personnel stories give the book an honesty and commonality that I believe will give readers a feeling of trustful safety. In my opinion you conveyed a message that truly needs to be heard without being "preachy"; that the Christian message should be one of love, tolerance, compassion, forgiveness, and mercy. Congratulations on a wonderful book.

Love Bob T.

P.S. I will be sure to pass the book around to many people that I know.

Karen and I are on a cruise in the South Pacific.  We commented to each other how nice it would be to have someone we know cruise with us.  I did the next best thing.  I brought along your book;  "Good Samaritan Therapy".  Wow, you have hit a home run.  I wondered what you were doing over the past couple of years.  Now I understand you were writing a book for me.  Time well spent.

This is where you book has been such a lift.  You have been a Good Samaritan to me over the past few days.  Thanks for the timeless truths placed in a contemporary context.  Your stories made it for me.  Plus I can see some of the dash lights going off in my own life as a warning to shape up in some of those wounded areas of my own. 

Love you
Mike D.

In his newest book, Good Samaritan Therapy: Real Medicine for the Soul, Pastor Bob Maddux of Christian Life Assembly, now The Connection, (San Diego, Calif.) offers insightful counsel to those who would minister spiritual healing to others who have been "stripped, beaten, wounded and left half-dead" by the evil one today. John Dawson, president of Youth With A Mission, notes that "In churches today, there is an unmobilized army of people who long to help others yet draw back in fear. . . . This is a book for turning timid bystanders into ministers of mercy."

Edward Fudge
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