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# Another Top Book: Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/20131227another-top-book-secret-thoughts-of-an-unlikely-convert/
- Published: 2013-12-27T14:55:19.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:25:14.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Books, #DashHouseCom, #wp

I recently posted my [top twelve reads from 2013](https://dashhouse.com/dashhouse/2013/12/22/top-12-books-i-read-in-in-2013?ref=dashhouse.com). I somehow neglected to mention one that should have made the list: [*The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert*](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0097G05F8/dashhouse-20?ref=dashhouse.com) by Rosaria Butterfield. I have no idea how I managed to miss this one.

Here are three reasons why this book is great:

[ ![](https://www.dashhouse.com/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/41t4ptakMWL.jpg) ](http://www.amazon.com/Thoughts-Unlikely-Convert-Professors-Christian/dp/1884527388%3FSubscriptionId%3D0ENGV10E9K9QDNSJ5C82%26tag%3Ddashhouse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1884527388?ref=dashhouse.com)
1. **It’s a spiritual autobiography.** If you want to be encouraged by God’s grace at work in someone’s life, read this book. It’s a great reminder that God continues to be at work among the people we wouldn’t have expected.
2. **It’s an evangelism primer.** If you want a good model of how to be a winsome, faithful, wise, and grace-filled friend and evangelist, then read this book. Sometimes we need a model more than we need a set of principles; this book provides that.
3. **It will awaken you to some truths that you may have forgotten:** what it’s like to be in the process of coming to Christ; that nobody is out of God’s reach; of the intolerance of supposedly tolerant academics; of the common cup we drink when we come to the Lord’s Table. Butterfield writes:

> We love these women between the pages of our Bible, but we don’t want to sit at the Lord’s Table with them— with people like me— drinking from a common cup. That’s the real ringer: the common cup— that is, our common origin in depravity. We are only righteous in Christ and in him alone. But that’s a hard pill to swallow, especially if you give yourself kudos for good choices.

Seriously, how did I forget to include this book? So, so good.

![Another Top Book: Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert](https://www.dashhouse.com/content/images/v7/dashhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/41t4ptakMWL.jpg)