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You Are What You Love
- The Spiritual Power of Habit
- Narrated by: Claton Butcher
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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Summary
You are what you love. But you might not love what you think.
In this book, award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us. We might not realize the ways our hearts are being taught to love rival gods instead of the One for whom we were made. Smith helps listeners recognize the formative power of culture and the transformative possibilities of Christian practices. He explains that worship is the "imagination station" that incubates our loves and longings so that our cultural endeavors are indexed toward God and his kingdom. This is why the church and worshiping in a local community of believers should be the hub and heart of Christian formation and discipleship.
Following the publication of his influential work Desiring the Kingdom, Smith received numerous requests from pastors and leaders for a more accessible version of that book's content. No mere abridgment, this new book draws on years of Smith's popular presentations on the ideas in Desiring the Kingdom to offer a fresh, bottom-up re-articulation. The author creatively uses film, literature, and music illustrations to engage listeners and includes new material on marriage, family, youth ministry, and faith and work. He also suggests individual and communal practices for shaping the Christian life.
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- Nick
- 22-12-21
Challenging
The book is full of great insights and it poses a lot of challenges. I found that the first 2 3rds of the book were good being uneducated some word were a little diffict but that's on me not the book I recomend if your a believer read this book as it the first step in learning how cusumerism affects us on an unconscious lwcel
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-07-18
Helpful and important
The most important parts of the book are right at the beginning. Once you've got his main point - that since humans are lovers/worshippers more than thinkers, rituals and habits are crucial to our Christian living - the rest is really hammering it home. I got those insights from other thinkers first (e.g. Leithart) but this was helpful in its simplicity and application.
I'm in the UK, so I can't speak for American pronunciation but 'wind' as in 'twist' was pronounced like 'wind' as in weather in the section about Paris.
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- Lari Launonen
- 20-05-17
Rediscovering ancient Christian wisdom
James KA Smith offers an antidote to the shortcomings of (post)modern evangelicalism with a vision of habitual practice of virtues that redirect our loves to what God loves.
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