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Highlights
- You feel like there's a God-given dream in your heart, but you can't figure out how it fits into your life as a Christian.You're tired of feeling like you have to stay in the box, follow a certain path, or fit the status quo to serve God.You want more...out of life, out of faith, and for this world.
- Author(s): David McDonald
- 266 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, Christian Life
Description
About the Book
The Bible uses the metaphor of "the City" to describe our work in cooperation with God. "God gave us a Garden but requires from us a City."
Book Synopsis
You feel like there's a God-given dream in your heart, but you can't figure out how it fits into your life as a Christian.
You're tired of feeling like you have to stay in the box, follow a certain path, or fit the status quo to serve God.
You want more...out of life, out of faith, and for this world. How can you integrate all of who you are with God's plan for the world?
Heirs of Eden is a book about your dreams, your work, and your creative potential that will wake you up to what lights you up inside and show you why your dreams are holy.
Through artistic reflections on God's plan of restoration for the world, you will understand the true purpose of humanity, the theology of creativity, and why it's not just about going into ministry or "being used by God" - it's about manifesting the Spirt of God within you simply by being you.
Whether you're a woodworker, a stay-at-home mom, a mechanic, or an investment banker, and whether your passion is your profession or your hobby, you will discover how you are meant to participate in the divine creative life by existing, working, dreaming, doing, and bringing flourishing to those around you.
This book will ignite the fire in your belly, the light in your eyes, and the dreams in your soul as you see how your work, faith, and art blend together to bring the Kingdom of God to earth.
Review Quotes
A must-read. - Charles J. Conniry, Jr., PhD, President, Western Seminary
Get ready to be inspired to live out your God-given dream. - Rick Bartlett, DMin., Associate Dean- School of Graduate Studies, Director of Online Education, Associate Professor Ministry, Tabor College
I recommend it highly. - Kenneth W. Brewer, Ph.D, Professor of Theology, Spring Arbor University
If I could give every person a present at their ordination, this book would be it. - Leonard Sweet, author of Rings of Fire, professor at George Fox University, Drew University, Evangelical Seminary, and Northwind Seminary
Crackling hot passion. Rooted and riveting content. Surgically applied. With heavyweight authority. - Nathan Oates, Lead Pastor, Emmaus Church Community
A marvelous book for group discussion in today's world saturated by social movements and human identities. - Dr. Andrew K. Fox Founder and CEO of Cultural Clarity
Dr. McDonald invites us to live into our destiny, to become the best possible version of ourselves and to celebrate our work for God no matter what we're called to do. - David Wahlstedt, Lead Pastor at The Table, Dallas