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The Good and Beautiful Community: Following the Spirit, Extending Grace, Demonstrating Love Hardcover – Dec 8 2010
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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.
- ISBN-109780830835331
- ISBN-13978-0830835331
- Edition1st
- PublisherIntervarsity Press
- Publication dateDec 8 2010
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions13.97 x 3.05 x 20.96 cm
- Print length240 pages
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The Good and Beautiful God | The Good and Beautiful You | The Good and Beautiful Life | The Good and Beautiful Community | |
Description | Experiencing transformation by challenging false beliefs about God by discovering the God that Jesus revealed in Scripture. | Overcoming toxic self narratives by discovering the person Jesus created you to be through the beautiful healing God provides. | Following Jesus' teachings in the Sermon on the Mount, this book offers practical way to engage in spiritual practices. | Bringing personal faith and relationships within the community of Christ-followers together. |
Recommended Reading Order | Book 1 | Book 2 | Book 3 | Book 4 |
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Room of Marvels | Hidden in Christ | The Magnificent Story | The Magnificent Journey | |
Description | In this moving story a Christian author goes to a retreat center to grieve and face the hard questions about God that he is asking in the wake of these losses. And if you have ever wondered what heaven is like, this book provides a beautiful vision. | Memorizing and studying a passage in depth can offer a deeper sense of the meaning of each word. In this unique introduction to the hidden life in Christ, James Bryan Smith walks readers through a thirty-day immersion in Colossians 3:1-17. | Any story worth giving the power to shape our lives must pass a simple test: Is it beautiful, good, and true? If it is, then it is a magnificent story—and that is where transformation takes place. | There is a road to life in the unshakeable kingdom of God, but it's not an easy journey. In The Magnificent Journey, the author shows us the better road, the road less travelled, but the road full of riches. |
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"The Good and Beautiful Community is very readable, relatable, and practical. Recommend it to pastors, adult Sunday school teachers, small-group leaders, fans of Dallas Willard and Richard Foster, and customers interested in spiritual formation and disciplines."
--Daniel Johnson, CBA Retailers Resources, September 2010About the Author
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- ASIN : 0830835334
- Publisher : Intervarsity Press; 1st edition (Dec 8 2010)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780830835331
- ISBN-13 : 978-0830835331
- Item weight : 435 g
- Dimensions : 13.97 x 3.05 x 20.96 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #199,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #115 in Ecclesiology (Books)
- #567 in Christian Discipleship (Books)
- #1,440 in Christianity Textbooks
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About the author

Dr. James Bryan Smith is the Dallas Willard Professor of Christian Spiritual Formation at Friends University, in Wichita, Kansas. Jim received his B.A. in Religion and Philosophy at Friends University, his M.Div. at Yale Divinity School, and his D.Min. at Fuller Theological Seminary. Jim has taught at Friends University for over 30 years, teaching primarily in the area of Christian spiritual formation. He is also the Executive Director of The Apprentice Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation. In addition, Jim is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, and co-founding pastor of Chapel Hill UMC, in Wichita, Kansas, and is currently a teaching pastor at that church. He is also a best-selling author of twelve books, most notably The Apprentice Series (InterVarsity Press), which includes The Good and Beautiful God. He is also one of the original founders, alongside Richard J. Foster and Dallas Willard, of the spiritual renewal ministry, Renovare. James is the host of the Things Above Podcast.
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And truthfully, I found this book more enlightening for me because I have always struggled with this aspect of Christian life: church community, and really the entire community around me, my "neighbours". Smith provides a lot of insight to how to view one's community, what Jesus taught about it, and how to follow Christ while interacting with one's community. Made me realize just how important my Christian community is, and how I grow as a Christian is tied with how I interact and react with my community.
I highly recommend this entire Apprentice Series, and I am very grateful to Smith for writing it. These three books are an easy-to-understand read, and yet have important, profound insights and practical application for all Christians who are sincere in following Christ's teachings.
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I would recommend this to anyone.