Book Review: The Walk by Shaun Alexander

I was excited, to say the least, upon receiving my early copy of Shaun Alexander’s The Walk. While I’m not a huge sports fan (please don’t walk away), having met Shaun at our church I was intrigued enough through our casual conversation to read his book. WaterBrookMultnomah quickly shipped this small 228 page book and so, I dug in.

The Walk starts off with a grueling football scene, which is expected but takes a rather awkward turn in the story. In this opening scene we find Alexander and some teammates laying hands on an injured player. Through prayer and the laying on of hands this man was miraculously healed.

While the reader will quickly find out the opening scene is only a dream, the overall flow and focus of The Walk seems to be on healing by prayer and laying on of hands. I counted five other instances through my reading of The Walk demonstrating a healing through prayer and/or touch.

While there are many who believe in such supernatural powers being bestowed on the modern-day church and it’s believers, those who believe the healing gifts are no longer necessary in today’s time may have an urgency to place this book in the fantasy category of their mind.

As an example, the story Alexander shares with the reader beginning on page 158 is a very dramatic story of a woman resurrecting her dead husband and then brining him to the conference she was attending. While I am not against hearing stories of modern-day miracles, I had a different expectation of The Walk. I was anticipating a book geared toward all male Christians struggling to walk through his culture according to God’s will.  Instead, all I could concentrate on was looking for the next miracle scene in The Walk. 

I have rated this read as a 2.5 out of 5 stars.