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How to Move from Activity for God to Intimacy with God
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
God has everything waiting for you!
We start out with hearts brimming with hope and excitement. And that energy carries us for awhile, maybe even years. But one day we suddenly find ourselves like the man in the Good Samaritan story: half-dead, going through the dreaded motions hoping no one around us notices.
It’s not that we’ve stopped loving God, but it’s just that things have happened along the way that have caused us to settle for a small life, one defined primarily by activity for God. We look around and sigh: It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
Author Greg Hawkins knows that reality firsthand. He also knows there is something beyond that reality if we have the courage to step out and hope once more. Far from giving us simply more stuff to do, Greg shares the necessary and doable shifts in our thought and language that lead to true intimacy with God.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
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Hawkins, former executive pastor of Willow Creek Community Church and current pastor alongside Max Lucado and Randy Frazee at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Tex., explores ways of living an intimate life with God in this hands-on primer. With style and smarts, he transparently divulges his mental state during seasons when he felt "off" with God and explains how God used tragedy to help him understand how little control he had over life's happenings. Hawkins's biggest lesson occurred when he discovered a tumor on his left kidney and he understood that God had placed such a dire obstacle in his path in order to explain that Hawkins's intrinsic worth came from him being a child of God, not his own accomplishments. Readers will learn object lessons about the value of a strong inner core in comparison to material or financial success. Hawkins's welcoming style will encourage Christ followers to spend more time in reflection and inspire a reevaluation of what matters most in this temporal life.
