Hidden in Christ: Living as God's Beloved (Apprentice)
"Jim Smith probes the great mystery of where our true life lies. He walks us through one of the great passages in all of Scripture so we may discover the life that is hidden only to be found." (John Ortberg, senior pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church and author of Who Is This Man?)"The third chapter of Colossians is one of the supreme passages in Scripture, brimming as it does with life-giving realities.Hidden in Christcan serve as a kind of midwife to help bring these realities to birth within us." (Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline and Sanctuary of the Soul)"Much of our spirituality is a mile long and an inch deep. James Bryan Smith helps us go deeper. This book is based on one chapter of the Bible, and it is a dazzling one. On these pages, you'll find a countercultural invitation—an affront to the self-centered world of self-help books, blessing-obsessed televangelists and fluffy motivational messages. Here is an invitation to die to live, to find your life by giving it away. It's a smooth, easy-to-read book, but underneath it all is a radical message about reorienting our lives so that we look more like Jesus—and thereby interrupt the patterns of inequity and injustice that plague our world." (Shane Claiborne, author, activist, and lover of Jesus, thesimpleway.org)"What a wonderful, life-giving book! Each chapter is a bite-sized morsel of substantive spiritual food that will nourish your life in Christ." (Ruth Haley Barton, founder of the Transforming Center, author of Sacred Rhythms)