One Thing: Developing a Passion for the Beauty of God - Softcover

C. Samuel Storms

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9781857929522: One Thing: Developing a Passion for the Beauty of God
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1857929527 ISBN 13: 9781857929522
Publisher: Christian Focus, 2010

Synopsis

The goal of our creation was not simply that we might be happy, but happy in appreciating God's own glory. Not in reviewing our own accomplishments or in the enjoyment of our own sensual appetites. Not in the development of a healthy self-esteem or in the acquisition of a four-bedroom home with a three-car garage. We were made to glorify God and enjoy him forever. Nothing is more important than understanding this truth. This inspiring work helps us see that beauty has the power to convince the inquiring mind of truth. The soul's contact with God's beauty elicits love and forges in us a new affection that no earthly power can overcome. Enjoying God in the revelation of his beauty is the solution to our struggle with sin, the catalyst for substantive and lasting change and is the soul's satisfaction, with which no rival pleasure can hope to compete.

So what is it about God that when known and seen and experienced empowers the human soul to feel sickened in the presence of sin and satisfied in the divine embrace? That word again: Beauty.

Apatheism affects not just those outside the church but those inside the church who can't be bothered with their own religion let alone someone else's.

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About the Author

Sam Storms is the President of Enjoying God Ministries, and Executive Director of the Convergence Church Network.

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Publisher
Christian Focus
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1857929527
ISBN 13 
9781857929522
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
192
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