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The world is not ours to save : finding the freedom to do good / Tyler Wigg-Stevenson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (220 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780830864522
  • 0830864520
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: World is not ours to saveDDC classification:
  • 248.4 23
LOC classification:
  • BV4599.5.C44 S74 2013
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
The world is not ours to save -- Don't be a hero -- Broken beyond our repair -- Fear God -- Take these snakes -- The peaceable kingdom -- Peace with God: worship, discipleship, evangelism -- Peace among the nations: justice, industry, nonaggression -- Peace in community: dignity, prosperity, fearlessness -- Living out our callings.
Summary: The 2014 Christianity Today Book Award Winner (Christianity and Culture)2014 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year (Compassion)We want to save the world-and we have a dizzying array of worthy causes to pursue. But passionate enthusiasm can quickly give way to disillusionment, compassion fatigue or empty slacktivism. As we move from awareness to mobilization, we bump up against the complexities of global problems-and liking Facebook pages only goes so far. Veteran activist Tyler Wigg-Stevenson identifies the practical and spiritual pitfalls that threaten much of today's cause-driven Christianity.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-220).

The world is not ours to save -- Don't be a hero -- Broken beyond our repair -- Fear God -- Take these snakes -- The peaceable kingdom -- Peace with God: worship, discipleship, evangelism -- Peace among the nations: justice, industry, nonaggression -- Peace in community: dignity, prosperity, fearlessness -- Living out our callings.

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The 2014 Christianity Today Book Award Winner (Christianity and Culture)2014 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year (Compassion)We want to save the world-and we have a dizzying array of worthy causes to pursue. But passionate enthusiasm can quickly give way to disillusionment, compassion fatigue or empty slacktivism. As we move from awareness to mobilization, we bump up against the complexities of global problems-and liking Facebook pages only goes so far. Veteran activist Tyler Wigg-Stevenson identifies the practical and spiritual pitfalls that threaten much of today's cause-driven Christianity.