Four friends carried a paralyzed man to Jesus. The crowd blocked the door, so they climbed the stairs and tore open the roof.

Rise Up and Walk! takes that scene from Mark 2 and turns it into a question the Church has learned to avoid: who are we carrying?

In seventeen short, unsparing chapters, Eliézer Magalhães confronts a Christianity that has grown comfortable — one that can speak fluently about God without ever trembling before Him. He writes about the presence that has gone missing from our gatherings, about the billions who still have no access to the gospel, about the real cost of crossing the chasm to reach them, and about the holy hunger from which every revival has begun.

This is biblical exposition joined to missionary vision. Devotional enough for a small group, missiological enough for readers who think seriously about the unreached, pastoral enough to unsettle any Christian who suspects there is more to following Christ than what they have settled for.

Every chapter closes with questions for personal reflection and group discussion, and the book ends with a practical nine-week guide — a journey that moves from reading, to prayer, to naming the people you long to carry to Jesus.

"The world is not waiting for better programs or more polished preaching. It is waiting for men and women who have tasted God — and can no longer be satisfied with anything else."