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Glad You're Here by Walker Hayes & Craig Allen Cooper

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In Glad You're Here, Walker Hayes and Craig Allen Cooper talk about their lives and their friendship, and how that friendship changed and shaped their lives. Craig showed Walker the love that Jesus shows us and showed him how to love like that, and that is the story they are sharing with their readers. They tell the reader and show them how to welcome people like Jesus does. One of the biggest lessons I got from this book is that most of us spend our lives avoiding the people Jesus would have spent time with. These are the people Jesus wants us to show love to, yet they make us uncomfortable so we stay away. Walker and Craig show their readers how to welcome and engage with those people in a very real way. They also emphasize that we must not treat non-believers like a project. We need to love them where we are, and they will see Jesus through those actions. I have seen far too many times non-believers pushed away by the dehumanizing treatment by Christians in their attempt to &quo