You're Only Human - by Kelly M Kapic

About the Book

God doesn't need you to meet all the needs, know all the answers, or be superhuman. As Christians, we too often confuse our creaturely limits with sin, sadly distorting most aspects of our lives. God just desires you to be a faithful human creature whose finitude fosters freedom, joy, growth, and community.

Book Synopsis

Work. Family. Church. Exercise. Sleep.

The list of demands on your time seems to be never-ending. It can leave you feeling a little guilty--like you should always be doing one more thing.

Rather than sharing better time-management tips to squeeze more hours out of the day, Kelly Kapic takes a different approach. In the paperback edition of You're Only Human, he offers a better way to make peace with the fact that God didn't create us to do it all by

- exploring the theology behind seeing our human limitations as a gift rather than a deficiency
- laying out a path to holistic living with life-giving relationships and meaningful contributions to the world
- freeing us from confusing our limitations with sin
- inviting us to rest in the joy and relief of knowing that God can use our limitations to foster freedom, joy, growth, and community

Readers will emerge better equipped to cultivate a life that fosters gratitude, rest, and faithful service to God.

From the Back Cover

Christianity Today Book Award Winner (Popular Theology)
Georgia Author of the Year Finalist (Inspirational)

God Didn't Create Us to Do It All

God doesn't need you to meet all the needs, know all the answers, or to be superhuman. Yet as Christians, we often confuse our creaturely limits with sin. In You're Only Human, popular speaker and award-winning author Kelly Kapic shows that God just desires you to be a faithful human creature whose finitude fosters freedom, joy, growth, and community.

"Written with beauty and clarity, You're Only Human is a library of wisdom and virtue. This book isn't just about the limits of being human--it's a celebration of being human."
--Karen Swallow Prior, author of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

"I love this book. With enthusiasm, I will recommend it to all the pastors and ministry leaders I mentor."
--Paul David Tripp, author of New Morning Mercies and Lead: 12 Gospel Principles for Leadership in the Church

"Reading this book is like taking that first breath of fresh air after being underwater for too long. Kapic makes a paradigm-shifting case regarding God's gift of finitude that reveals the best of what our Creator God designed us to be."
--Julius J. Kim, former president, The Gospel Coalition

"To receive our human limitations as a gift rather than a liability is indeed a great blessing! Kapic shows us why and how in this uplifting work."
--Ruth Haley Barton, founder, Transforming Center; author of Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation

"I'm already breathing a bit easier after reading this exceptionally honest and hopeful book."
--Chuck DeGroat, Western Theological Seminary and Newbigin House of Studies

"This book is a hopeful gift."
--John Swinton, University of Aberdeen

"Kapic weds rock-solid theology to wise guidance for Christian living. This is a book we desperately need in our frenetic age."
--Beth Felker Jones, Northern Seminary; author of Practicing Christian Doctrine

"Kapic graces us with a mature, winsome, theologically steady, and pastorally gentle invitation to receive with gratitude and rejoice once again in the triune God's good gift of finite creatureliness."
--Leopoldo A. Sánchez M., Center for Hispanic Studies, Concordia Seminary

"Kapic has written a daring book, teaching us to embrace our God-given limitations in a culture that screams for more of everything. It's a rigorous yet personal exploration of a startling, liberating truth."
--Mindy Belz, international journalist and author of They Say We Are Infidels

"A page-turner! Just have a pen handy--there's a lot to underline in You're Only Human."
--Michael Horton, Westminster Seminary California; author of Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World

"As this book helped me to see the manifold ways in which we live in denial about the goodness of limits, I made fresh commitments to seek new, healthier habits. I cannot value and recommend a book more highly than that."
--Daniel J. Treier, Wheaton College; author of Introducing Evangelical Theology

"Kapic asks hard and searching questions in order to reveal the beauty of God's created order and Christ's peace that passes all understanding."
--Bishop Julian M. Dobbs, Anglican Diocese of the Living Word

"No hastily prepared, cheap-fix antidote, You're Only Human is the product of years of reflection and concern, the work of a mature Christian theologian and a fine teacher. It is a love gift to the church."
--Sinclair Ferguson, Reformed Theological Seminary

"A timely and prophetic word to our culture today. I pray it will sink deep within the church."
--Jedd Medefind, president of the Christian Alliance for Orphans

About the Author

Kelly M. Kapic (PhD, King's College, University of London) is professor of theological studies at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, where he has taught since 2001. He is a popular speaker and the award-winning author or editor of more than 15 books, including the devotional You Were Never Meant to Do It All and the Christianity Today Book Award winner Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering.