The Deepest Belonging: A Story about Discovering Where God Meets Us
Kara K. Root, "The Deepest Belonging: A Story about Discovering Where God Meets Us "
English | ISBN: 1506470939 | 2021 | 308 pages | EPUB | 1227 KB
English | ISBN: 1506470939 | 2021 | 308 pages | EPUB | 1227 KB
Where does God meet us in this life? Rooting Christian faith in joy, freedom, and trust that God interacts with us in this life, The Deepest Belonging: A Story of Discovering Where God Meets Us invites readers to walk through surprising doorways–weakness, vulnerability, smallness, rest, and honesty–into a new perspective of the Christian life and the role of the pastor.
Kara Root draws wisdom from three compelling stories, all about finding freedom on the other side of fear. In one thread, Marty, a member of the small congregation Root serves, learns that he is dying. In the second, Root finds that her once-invincible faith of assurance and answers collapses.
These stories come together in a third, when the congregation does a unique and counterintuitive thing: it commissions Marty to a "ministry of dying." By embracing instead of fleeing death, Marty, this community, and Root herself are infused with life through shared experiences of God. They learn to be vulnerable and brave. They discover–again and profoundly–an unguarded faith of wondering and watching for God's presence.
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