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Sto caricando le informazioni... Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belongingdi Brennan Manning
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A wonderful and inspiring read by one of the best modern Christian authors. God's love is made clear, unambiguous and real through the words of this gifted author. It’s a book to be taken slowly, savouring each paragraph, absorbing the wisdom and letting go of the false images and ideas we so often cling to. It’s written from a strongly Christian perspective, of course; but I would recommend this to anyone exploring the faith as well as those who have been committed to God for years. Too often Christians portray themselves as judgemental or angry - this book demonstrates a much gentler and yet also more powerful faith, one that grows and changes, and one which is very, very appealing. Highly recommended. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Many Christians have bought into the lie that they are worthy of God's love only when their lives are going well. If their families are happy or their jobs are meaningful, life is a success. Yet when life begins to fall apart and embarrassing sins threaten to reveal a less-than-perfect identity, they scramble to keep up a good front to present to the world, and to God. They cower and hide until they can rearrange the mask of perfection and look good again. Sadly, it is then that they wonder why they lack intimate relationships and a passionate faith. All this time, though, God is calling them to take our masks off and come openly to Him. God longs for them to know in the depths of their beings that He loves them and accepts them as they are. When they are their true selves, they can finally claim their identity as God's children and experience His pure pleasure in who they are. Brennan Manning encourages Christians to let go of the impostor lifestyle and freely accept their belovedness as a child of the heavenly Father. In Him there is life, their passion is rekindled, and the union with Him is His greatest pleasure. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Abba's Child was originally published in 1994, and expanded with a group study guide in 2002. This new edition, published two years after Manning's death, is essentially the same as the 2002 edition with a new foreword from Jon Foreman (of Switchfoot fame) and an introduction from John Blase. The real value of the new edition is that it is a pretty book (cover art by Charlie Mackesy, printed on nice paper), making it a good gift edition.
In the book Manning helps us move toward authentic spirituality by getting us to come out of hiding. We all have a false self we project at the world--an impostor who is not our deepest, truest self. Our pretense keeps us from experiencing all that God has for us. Manning helps us confront our Impostor with grace. Our strategies of self protection may have been necessary at different stages of the journey, and hating our impostor is also self hatred. Manning shares a letter he wrote to his personal impostor while on retreat, inviting him to the presence of Jesus (28-30). True to form, Manning called us to grace, even graciousness with the parts of ourselves we don't much like. It is only in the presence of Christ that we are set free to drop the mask and discover our belovedness to God. Manning knew this better than most.
Manning also confronted our personal legalism, judgmentalism, racism and bigotry. Each of these are strategies meant to prove that we are okay, that we belong, that we are in the right (or atleast righter than the next guy). Each is an aspect of our false self, where we fail to live out of God's grace and our belonging to Him. In prophetic words, Manning confronts the increasing political and ideological polarization of our age and calls back to gospel (good news) faithfulness:
The "anything goes" morality of the religious and political Left is matched by the sanctimonious moralism of the religious and political Right. Uncritical acceptance of any party line is an idolatrous abdication of one's core identity as Abba's child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball address human dignity, which is often dressed in rags.
Abba's children find a third option. They are guided by God's Word and by it alone. All religious and political systems, Right and Left alike, are the work of human beings. Abba's children will not sell their birthright for any mess of pottage, conservative or liberal. They hold fast to their freedom in Christ to live the gospel--uncontaminated by any dreck, political flotsam, and filigreed hypocrisies of bullying religion (55-6)
I love this book for the ways that Manning called us away from moralism, false religion and politicized solutions back to grace and Christ's resurrection life. Personally I feel pressure to perform, to prove my worth. This makes may hunger for more grace. I give this book 4 stars.
Notice of material connection: I received this book from the Tyndale Blog Network (and NavPress) in exchange for my honest review. ( )