Celebrate Lit Blog Tour: I Never Knew You by Patrick Higgins

Book:  I Never Knew You

Author: Patrick Higgins

Genre: Christian Fiction

Release date: September 9, 2020

Is the God you serve the true God of the Bible? If you profess faith in Christ, this book will challenge you mightily from beginning to end, GUARANTEED!

Charmaine DeShields thought she had it all. A promising career. Good health. A beautiful house. A promising relationship. Most importantly, she was a proud member of the largest and most popular megachurch in all of Seattle—the Blessed and Highly Favored Full Gospel Church.

Everything started changing in her seemingly perfect life after a pastor visiting from China created such an uproar at her church, with messages most members found both mean spirited and judgmentally offensive, that Mark Lau was asked to leave and told never to come back.

It took traveling all the way to Shanghai, China, with her best friend, Meredith Geiger, for Charmaine to discover the many differences between her church, which was opulent in every sense of the word, and Pastor Lau’s church, which was located beneath a dry cleaners, of all places.

Even more telling were the messages both pastors preached. Despite that they taught from the very same Book, their messages couldn’t have been anymore polarizing. While Charmaine was instantly intrigued by the whole “underground” experience, Meredith was so traumatized that she cut short what had been the best vacation of her life, to go back to the States.

But not before alarming Charmaine’s boyfriend of the grave danger they faced. Rodney Williams then told lead pastors, Julian and Imogen Martín, who flew 5,700 miles from Seattle to China, to rescue her from the so-called pastor who’d already caused some to leave their megachurch.

Upon arriving, they learned their suspicions were quickly confirmed. Mark Lau had used his subterranean gathering place to radically change Charmaine’s way of thinking. Despite her strongest protests, they flat-out refused to believe that God had used him to transform her life and deepen her faith, to the extent that she finally had eternal assurance.

Tragically for the Martíns, by the time they discovered the prosperity Gospel they’d been preaching was a false one, it would be too late…

 

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Patrick Higgins is a "new to me author" and I Never Knew You

is the first book I have read by him. I wasn't sure what to expect

as the Synopsis seemed to point at the book being very involved 

and the cover of the book was quite interesting. 

The main character of this book is Charmaine DeShields. Charmaine

is living a good life, a good career, in a good relationship. She most of

all treasures her relationship with God and is a member of a Mega 

church that she feels is helping her grow in her faith. A Pastor 

from China, Mark Lau, visited her church and had some intense

messages. Pastor Mark Lau was escorted out of the Mega Church. 

Charmaine though is totally changed after hearing his messages and 

did not find them offensive as the other members of her church did. 

Charmaine and her friend Meredith decide to travel to China to visit

Pastor Mark Lau. Charmaine's faith is really challenged while in China

and she realizes that her Beloved church in Seattle is not what she 

thought it really was. She realizes her church is a Prosperity Gospel

church and Prosperity Gospel churches can be "cult like". The Pastors

from the Seattle church fly to China to try to bring Charmaine "HOME"

but by now her heart is on fire for God and she doesn't see herself at that 

church any longer. Will Charmaine seek a different church back home? Will

her life be transformed in a abundant way that she never knew could happen? 

I had a hard time getting into this book, but once I started understanding 

the storyline, I was hooked. Prosperity Gospel churches are all over in the

Chicago area where I live and I stay away from those. The Gospel Message 

in this book is very strong and clear. I ended up staying up late to finish this 

book. Even though it is a Fiction book, it reads like a real life happening. 

FANTASTIC BOOK! 

Patrick Higgins is an Amazon bestseller and award-winning author of the end times prophetic series, Chaos In The Blink Of An Eye. The “CHAOS” in our present world is well documented in this series, which won the Radiqx Press Spirit-Filled Fiction Award of Excellence, soon after the first installment was published. Download now and see for yourself why JUST UNDER 3000 POSITIVE RATINGS – REVIEWS have been posted on Amazon and Goodreads, on the first 6 installments…and counting!

Once completed, there will be 12 installments…

Higgins also wrote “I Never Knew You”, “The Pelican Trees”, “Coffee In Manila”, and “The Unannounced Christmas Visitor”, which won the 2018 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal Award in Christian fiction.

 

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Is the God you serve the true God of the Bible? Charmaine DeShields always thought so. How could she not after practically going from rags to riches in the seven years she spent as a full-fledged member of the most influential church in all of Seattle—the Blessed and Highly Favored Full Gospel Church? From a financial and materialistic standpoint, she felt incredibly blessed by her Maker.

It took traveling all the way to Shanghai, China, and spending a few days in an underground church—with persecuted believers who’d lost everything for their faith in Christ—for Charmaine to discover that the relationship she had with Jesus wasn’t nearly as secure as she had always thought it was.

In fact, the biblically-sound preaching she was exposed to in Pastor Mark Lau’s subterranean house of worship was so profound, it forced her to question whether or not she was even saved at all…

Based on Matthew 7:21-23, if you profess faith in Christ, this story will challenge you from start to finish—GUARANTEED! Since its release in September 2020, the reviews on Amazon and Goodreads have been nothing short of stellar. Many are calling it Patrick Higgins’ best book to date and predict it will become an award-winner like his other books.

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness’” (Matthew 7:21-23).

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To celebrate his tour, Patrick is giving away the grand prize package of a $50 Amazon gift card and a copy of the book!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

https://promosimple.com/ps/1070d/i-never-knew-you-celebration-tour-giveaway

Celebrate Lit Blog Tour: I Never Knew You by Patrick Higgins

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