The Good and Beautiful Life: Putting on the Character of Christ
I have never met a person whose goal was to ruin his or her life. We all want to be happy, and we want it all of the time.”
So begins James Bryan Smith in The Good and Beautiful Life. The problem is, he tells us, we have bought into false notions of happiness and success. These self-centered decisions lead us further into the vices that cause ruin: anger, lust, lying, worry and judging. Eventually we find ourselves living a beautifully packaged life of self-destruction.
Following the Sermon on the Mount, this follow-up to The Good and Beautiful God guides us to look behind these character flaws and to replace our false beliefs with Jesus’ narratives about life in the kingdom of God.
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Jim Smith is the most articulate, accurate and helpful writer of spiritual formation of my generation. I give this series my highest recommendation.
author of Giving Church Another Chance
The Apprentice Series the the best practice I have seen in Christian spiritual formation.
author of The Divine Conspiracy
The Apprentice Series is a treasure. Dr. Smith has thought long and hard about the process of human transformation into the likeness of Jesus. I urge you to buy these books immediately! Read them and apply them. Then live them out in the context of a loving community. You will not regret doing so
author of Celebration of Discipline and coauthor of Longing for God
Published December 11, 2009 by IVP
ISBN: 978-0-8308-3532-4