Who you think you are is not as important as who God says you are...
Many of us wrestle with the gap between our weaknesses and our dreams,
between who we are and who God says we are meant to be. We feel unqualified
to do God's work or to live out the calling we imagine. But God has a way of
using our weaknesses for good. In fact, God loves unqualified people.
In (Un)Qualified, Pastor Steven Furtick helps you peel back the assumptions you've made about
yourself and see yourself as God sees you. Because true peace and confidence
come not from worldly perfection but from acceptance: God's acceptance of
you, your acceptance of yourself, and your acceptance of God's process of
change.
This is a book about understanding your identity in light of who God is.
It's a book about coming to terms with the good, the bad, and the
unmentionable in your life and learning to let God use you. It's about
charging into the gap between your present and your hopes and meeting God
there. After all, God can't bless who you pretend to be. But he longs to
bless who you really are; a flawed and broken person. Good thing for us that
God is in the business of using broken people to do big things.
Being unqualified is God's favorite qualification...
Our culture tells us that the answer to our failures is to fix them. The solution to our weaknesses is to hide them. The secret to our success is to appear as flawless as possible. But God's qualifying system is different than the world's. So is his view of our weaknesses, our purpose, and our true selves. In (Un)Qualified, Steven Furtick explores who God is as the great "I AM," and then helps us discover our own identity. Delving into the story of Jacob, Furtick invites us to acknowledge our weaknesses and ask God to work through them. The truth is, God has created us to be more, to accomplish more, and to love life more than we ever thought possible. But to become who he has called us to be, we must embrace who we are right now. (Un)Qualified equips us to face obstacles and failures without losing a sense of purpose. We can have a thriving sense of hope that God is working in us and through us, not in spite of our weaknesses but often as a direct result of them.
Being unqualified is God's favorite qualification...
Our culture tells us that the answer to our failures is to fix them. The solution to our weaknesses is to hide them. The secret to our success is to appear as flawless as possible. But God's qualifying system is different than the world's. So is his view of our weaknesses, our purpose, and our true selves. In (Un)Qualified, Steven Furtick explores who God is as the great "I AM," and then helps us discover our own identity. Delving into the story of Jacob, Furtick invites us to acknowledge our weaknesses and ask God to work through them. The truth is, God has created us to be more, to accomplish more, and to love life more than we ever thought possible. But to become who he has called us to be, we must embrace who we are right now. (Un)Qualified equips us to face obstacles and failures without losing a sense of purpose. We can have a thriving sense of hope that God is working in us and through us, not in spite of our weaknesses but often as a direct result of them.
Biographical Note:
STEVEN FURTICK is the New York Times best-selling author of Sun Stand Still, Greater, Crash the Chatter Box, and Seven-Mile Miracle. He is also the founder and lead pastor of Elevation Church, based in
Charlotte, North Carolina, which since its founding in 2006, has grown to
multiply locations across several states. He preaches around the world and
holds a master of divinity degree from Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary. Steven and his wife, Holly, have three children.
ISBN: 9781601424600
Pub Date: July 10, 2018
Paperback
224 pages
