Teach us to want
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As Christians, we're squeamish about desire. Isn't wanting sinful and selfish? Aren't we supposed to find and follow God's will rather than insisting upon our own? The story of each person is a story of want -- desires unmet, hopes dashed, passions pursued and ambitions fulfilled. Our wants cannot be ignored. But when desire is informed by Scripture and re-formed by our spiritual practices, it can root us more deeply in the fundamental belief that God is good and generous and can invite us into active kingdom participation. Jen Pollock Michel guides us on a journey of understanding who we are when we want, and reintroduces us to a God who gives us the desires of our hearts. That same good God calls us into a new reality in which we seek first his kingdom and righteousness, and we discover our disordered desires burned away while our truest longings are happily fulfilled and purified. The disciples asked Jesus to "Teach us to pray." This book asks, "Teach us to want." - Publisher.
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I think Christians need to learn how to desire and how to be passionate. That it is possible to be passionate because God created us to be passionate. But this book is not really about passion and desire. It is about holiness and sovereignty. Those are both important topics. But I am tired of only understanding desire in light of a negative understanding of holiness. Holiness is not about absence but abundance. And we can have abundant holiness when we understand how to embrace right desires and right passions.
Maybe I didn't give the book long enough, but I read Half and while there are some good things there it was frustrated more than encouraged.
