The Pressure's Off: Breaking Free from Rules and Performance - Softcover

Crabb, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307730530 ISBN 13: 9780307730534

Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group, 2012

Synopsis

You can stop trying to get everything right.
 
Is the pressure getting to you? Do you try to make everything work, only to find that your best efforts are largely ineffective?
 
Christians have unknowingly embraced two errors: that following the rules guarantees a good life, and that God is important because He dispenses blessings. When God s blessings seem to taper off and when life doesn t work out, people take it upon themselves to make things work. And that creates pressure that we are all too familiar with.
 
In The Pressure s Off, best-selling author and counselor Larry Crabb introduces you to the New Way of living. God does not guarantee ease or convenience or even a good outcome as the result of your obedience. But he does promise himself, no matter what the circumstances of your life.
 
When you seek God and nothing else, the pressure truly is off you.

Workbook included!

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Review:

If, like me, you see blessing-centeredness rather than God-centeredness as a great weakness of American evangelicalism, you will hail this exploration of the freedom and joy of grace as timely therapy, a word in season that we all needed. May it be widely read and thoroughly digested. --J. I. PACKER, theologian and author of" Knowing God"

The evangelical church, choking under a pervasive legalism/moralism that suffocates the human spirit, finds a powerful voice for freedom in Larry Crabb. Writing from the inside out, he presents a vibrant way of living with passion and without pressure. --BRENNAN MANNING, author of "Ruthless Trust"

C. S. Lewis wrote about prosperity knitting us to this world, and while we are seeking our place in the world, the world is actually finding its place in us. Dr. Larry Crabb has constructed a compelling narrative that shows how we have imprisoned ourselves by using the world s ways to get something from God, instead of appropriating God s way to receive something from Him. --CAL THOMAS, syndicated columnist and author

About the Author:

Dr. Larry Crabb is a well-known psychologist, seminar speaker, Bible teacher, author and founder/director of New Way Ministries. He is also Scholar in Residence at Colorado Christian University and serves as Spiritual Director for the American Association of Christian Counsellors. His many popular books include Inside Out, Finding God, Connecting, The Safest Place on Earth, The Papa Prayer, SoulTalk and most recently Real Church: Does it exist? Can I find it?

About this edition

• Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0307730530
• ISBN 13: 9780307730534
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 368