Good and Beautiful Community, James Bryan Smith
Good and Beautiful Community, James Bryan Smith
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Good and Beautiful Community
Following the Spirit, Extending Grace, Demonstrating Love

Author: James Bryan Smith

Narrator: James Bryan Smith

Unabridged: 6 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2013

Synopsis

In this third book in the Apprentice Series, James Bryan Smith helps us know how to live in relationship with others as apprentices of Jesus. "Apprentices of Jesus are not part-time do-gooders," he writes. "They live in continuous contact with the kingdom of God, and are constantly men and women in whom Christ dwells. They do not sometimes tell the truth, sometimes live sacrificially or sometimes forgive. There are myriad opportunities for us to impact the world in which we live." Yet many times we've gotten it wrong, tending to emphasize personal faith over social justice or vice versa. In these pages Jim Smith shows us how to bring spiritual formation and community engagement together, and then once again offers spiritual practices that root new, true narratives about God and the world in our souls. His insight and humility as a fellow learner with us will lead us to live in authentic ways as a good and beautiful community of Christ-followers, shining the light of the Spirit into every relationship.

About James Bryan Smith

James Bryan Smith is the author of The Good and Beautiful God, The Good and Beautiful Life, and The Good and Beautiful Community. He is a theology professor at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, where he also serves as the executive director of the Apprentice Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation. A founding member of Richard J. Foster's spiritual renewal ministry, Renovare, Smith is an ordained United Methodist Church minister and has served in various capacities in local churches.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cara

Some really good and though-provoking chapters. Would love to discuss with others. It really is a book meant to be read in community.......more

Goodreads review by Terri

Excellent series of books for small group study. Definitely should be done as a series. Great facilitator resources are available online for free that go beyond the already good group meeting material at the back of each book. I found this series to be a nice break from the level of reading required......more

Goodreads review by aundrea (tchnclrwords)

The true social activist is the person who lives as an apprentice of Jesus in his or her ordinary relationships. I have come to my senses and realize that I have to help strengthen my faith with spiritual practices. It is in this Apprentice series that I began to understand how faith can be practiced......more

Goodreads review by Tamara

Our small group at church finished this, the third and final title in James Bryan Smith’s Apprentice series. I’m still impressed not only with the author's substantive, but accessible, theological insight, but also with his gracious tone and impeccable recommendations for spiritual practices to make......more

Goodreads review by Adam

4.5 rounded up. A very good take on living not just in, but as the community of believers. Some of the stuff was a little cliché, but overall very good......more

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