Ambition isn't bad; it just does bad things.In a culture that too often prizes leadership uncritically and unreflectively, a faith that calls us to take up crosses, lay down lives and otherwise submit ourselves to something outside ourselves simply sounds like a bad idea. Nevertheless, this is the faith that we find Jesus talking about.Scott Bessenecker has learned from new friar communities, from the history of Christianity and from the mouth of Jesus that there's something wonderfully subversive about saying no to ourselves every now and then, something that could even change the world.
Table des matières
Acknowledgments
1 Subverting MONOPOLY(TM) Through Meekness
2 Meekness and the Death of Pride
3 Submission in Our Leadership-Infatuated Culture
4 Repentance and the Death of Personal Wealth
5 Following and the Death of Comparison
6 Slavery and the Death of Entitlement
7 Obedience and the Death of Independence
8 Meekness and the Need for True Leadership
Conclusion: How to Inherit the Earth
Notes
A propos de l’auteur
Scott Bessenecker is associate director for missions for Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship and author of several books, including The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World´s Poor. He sends more than two thousand students each year on short-term mission experiences in a number of urban poor locations around the world. Scott's blog, The Least of These, is at urbana.org/blogs/least-these.
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