Upside-Down Spirituality: The 9 Essential Failures of a Faithful Life

Chad Bird challenges us to reclaim the astounding originality of our ancient, backward faith by embracing nine specific failures in our personal lives, relationships, and church. He helps readers delight in the ways that Jesus turned the world upside-down, allowing us to experience true freedom, not from our weaknesses but in the midst of them.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 02 April 2019
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group

In our era when the church can too frequently appear as a pale imitation of the world, Chad Bird invites us to reclaim the remarkable originality of our ancient, backward faith. Where the world emphasizes the significance of success, Bird invites readers to embrace nine specific failures in the domains of our personal lives, our relationships, and the church. Why? Because what human wisdom deems indispensable is often an obstacle to our spiritual growth, and what it deems insignificant is frequently essential to it. With compelling examples from the Bible and contemporary society, Bird paints an enticing portrait of the counterintuitive, countercultural life that God desires for us. He assists readers in appreciating all of the ways that Jesus revolutionized the world, granting us genuine freedom, not from our weaknesses but in the midst of them.

Weight: 198g
Dimension: 216 x 141 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780801075674