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Book SynopsisBecome More Effective by Embracing Your Inability
Many of us are tired, stressed, and overworked. We think that following God will bring peace, but instead find ourselves anxious. We expect a life of joy, but end up feeling stressed, living under the heavy load of new expectations. It''s a spiritual and emotional rollercoaster.
We search for solutions using optimization techniques, attempting to fit more and more into our already full days. We try to craft efficiently maximized lives, but these methods always fail, not because they are ill-intentioned, but because they do not go far enough. They fail to understand how God made us--as people with inherent limitations--and they fail to accept that as good.
In The Good News of Our Limits, professor and longtime ministry leader Sean McGever reveals the wonderful news that we cannot do, be, or know all of the things that others expect of us--and that we often expect from ourselves. Nor
Table of Contents
Part 1: Confronting a Problem 1: To Infinity and Beyond! 2. We Are Not God; We Are Like God 3. We Are Also Unlike God Part 2: Embracing Our Limits 4. Capacity #1: We Can Select a Few Faithful Practices 5. Capacity #2: We Can Select a Few Circles of Friends 6. Capacity #3: We Can Select a Few Topics and Sources of Information Part 3: A Better Way Forward 7. Finite Christians Are Filled with the Holy Spirit to Do God’s Work as a Community 8. To Reality and Today!
