For anyone who feels the weight of injustice, trauma, and suffering,
the founder of the Jude 3 Project invites you to discover how to find
hope when you can’t make sense of the pain. “Lisa Fields
brilliantly offers hope for all who seek to practice their faith
without the cruel dogma nurtured by Western culture.”—Otis Moss
III, senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago Living
as a Black woman in America, Lisa Victoria Fields understands the
tension of relying on God in a broken world. While pursuing her
calling in full-time Christian ministry—an often white,
male-dominated vocation—she saw the contentions many people have
with Christianity. She heard the theological questions, but instead of
arguing for her faith, she listened to the barriers and heard the pain
in their hearts: Why doesn’t God protect me from suffering and
injustice? Others don’t seem to think I have value—does God? Now,
in her debut book, Fields shows us how emotional pain—often more
than theological concerns—is at the root of our doubt. She invites
us to bring our deepest soul questions to this journey as she
explores: • Seven pain points that might be keeping us from
faith: a lack of personhood, peace, provision, pleasure, purpose,
protection, and power • Honest talk about how Christianity
doesn’t seem to meet our very valid needs • Why wrestling with
God doesn’t negate our faith but instead deepens it • What it
looks like to allow God to bring healing to our pain so we can see Him
and others more clearly Through vulnerable storytelling and thoughtful
use of Scripture, Fields tends to our hurting hearts and offers hope
and resolve. She helps us move forward as we cling to a faith that
brings us back to the truth of Christianity—not despite the pain of
this world but in light of it.
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The Gap Between What We Believe and What We Experience
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780593601198
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Random House Digital Inc.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter