GOOD READS recommended by Pastor Aaron Adams.
These books were selected to complement our current sermon series in Philippians.
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THE GOSPEL COMES WITH A HOUSE KEY by Rosaria Butterfield.
What is your everyday testimony for Jesus supposed to look like? Often we think our witness for Christ needs to be something fancy or profound. In reality, like Jesus, we are to walk among the hurting and reach out to them through everyday kindnesses and hospitality. Welcoming people into our sometimes “messy” lives is something we can and should do. Butterfield’s book is a call to not only know our neighbors, but to love them. To get back out on the front porches of life and off the internet and our phones! Many of our neighbors and friends are lonely. We need to practice the Lord’s hospitality by connecting with individuals face to face. Butterfield presents viable ways that we can be a witness for Christ to those around us each day by opening up our hearts and homes. As they observe the Lord at work in our everyday lives, they will see the Gospel message of Christ in action and will ask, “Who is this Jesus Christ?”
THE LIFE WE’RE LOOKING FOR … RECLAIMING RELATIONSHIPS IN A TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD by Andy Crouch.
Are you like many who feel disconnected from friends and family due to the ease of modern-day technology?
Technology has allowed face-to-face relationships to drift further and further apart, resulting in disconnected families and communities. In his book, Crouch will point you back to scripture in order for you to realize how your countless hours of scrolling on your cell phone (or being online) may become detrimental to your life, your friendships, your family and even your work and outside activities. Social media, cell phones, texting, email, etc., give individuals a false sense of power. Life should not be about what we can get. Your life should be about who you are and how you can enhance another’s journey through extending the love of Christ. But how do you find the balance between personal interactions and utilizing the benefits of technology in your day-to-day world? Technology needs to serve you, not master you. It needs to enhance your life, not pull you further and further apart from the personal human contact you need in your daily life. The desire to be known and to know another is a basic human need. Technology has taken the personal touch out of relationships and has allowed meaningless encounters with those we love, or do not know, for the sake of convenience. What place does technology play in your life? Does it control you, or do you control the influence that it enables you to have in a Christ honoring manner? Reading Crouch’s book will enable you to evaluate the role that technology has in your life. It is a relevant book for today and easy to read.