Upside-Down Freedom: Inverted Principles for Christian Living - Softcover

Field, Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596693762 ISBN 13: 9781596693760

Publisher: New Hope Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

If you want to reshift your thinking on discipleship, Upside-Down Freedom can give you just the fuel you need for your journey. For more than 25 years, author Taylor Field has served among people who deal with grueling issues of recovery and reveal courageous journeys to freedom. Their life-changing journeys were a result of inverted thinking. Field’s insightful perspective in Upside-Down Freedom, closely looking at forms of personal bondage, reveals that the way to release yourself from the things that hold you captive can be counterintuitive. Using practical scriptural principles, the inspiring lives of unexpected freedom fighters, including ordinary people from the streets of the Lower East Side, you can find an alternative route to freedom, one so old our own society seems to have forgotten it.

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About the Author

Taylor Field is anything but ordinary. For the last 25 years, he has served as the pastor director of Graffiti Community Ministries in New York City where he has been recognized for his church and community ministry. Working with more than 10,000 people a year, Graffiti Community Ministries serves and empowers children, youth, and adults on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He works together with his wife, Susan Field. Taylor has a PhD from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and an MDiv from Princeton Seminary. Taylor has written five books including Squat. He has two married children who are both working in ministry in New York City.

Reviews

Beginning with a story of a firefighter who survived a fire by starting a fire, Field (Squat), pastor of Graffiti Church on Manhattan's Lower East Side, illustrates the paradox that faithful living often involves "doing the opposite." Drawing insight from his long ministry working with homeless, addicted, and despairing people, he shares both his struggles with how to bring a hopeful message to people whose lives radiate hopelessness, and wisdom learned from those whose "freedom shouts out in unexpected place." References to God as a freedom fighter recur throughout. Ten sections of Principles describe mental prisons (for example, "The Prison of Blame,") and offer scriptural tools for escape modeled on biblical figures like Moses, David, Paul, and Jesus. Each section includes short, digestible chapters with catchy names ("The Best Time to Triangulate.") An appendix, "Gallery of the Uncarcerated," provides short accounts of people referenced, among them Boethius, Churchill, Heschel, who "have inverted bondage and found freedom in the worst of situations." A personable tone, engaging illustrations, and practical guidance enhance this theologically thought-provoking, yet accessible book. (June)

Edition details

• Publisher: New Hope Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596693762
• ISBN 13: 9781596693760
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192