Changed Heart, Changed World: The Transforming Freedom of Friendship with God
Discover how a close relationship with God leads us to be difference-makers in the world.In his bookA Friendship Like No Other, William A. Barry, SJ, explored the idea that God actually wants to relate to us as a close friend—a radical concept for many Christians. In his follow-up book,Here’s My Heart, Here’s My Hand, Fr. Barry showed readers how to foster their friendship with God and remain anchored in it. Now, inChanged Heart, Changed World, Fr. Barry helps us make the important connection between having a personal friendship with God and making an impact on the world around us.Changed Heart, Changed Worldhelps explode the myth that our inner life is somehow separate from our outer life. Employing a highly personable tone, Fr. Barry provides practical ways to integrate the inner life, where we experience a relationship with God, with the outer life, where we live in relationship with our world. Fr. Barry begins the book by reviewing how an individual develops a friendship with God; from there, he delves into such topics as how that friendship impacts our role in society, how to see forgiveness as a way of life, and how compassion can make its mark on the world.Above all else,Changed Heart, Changed Worldreminds us that God has a dream for his creation here and now—a dream that can only be realized by our becoming “other Christs in this world,” bearing God’s image in all that we do.