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Paperback
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
ISBN13: 9781578569519
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Would you willingly overlook clear direction from God that speaks directly to you and where you are in life right now?
God’s guidance is near at hand. He is not only your Authority, he is also your Author. As God writes the stories of your life, he uses your past to open up your future.
It is your privilege to listen to your own story so you can live boldly for the sake of the Greatest Story, the good news of Jesus Christ. God reveals himself to you–and to others–through the story he has written in your life.
In this insightful and compelling book, Dr. Dan B. Allender shows you how to read the stories of your life. He helps you understand the meaning that God has written into every detail of who you are. As a result, you can share your story with others and listen to their story, revealing unique aspects of God’s hand at work.
Starting today, you can find deeper meaning in your story–a story To Be Told.
From the Hardcover edition.
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| Insightful view of your story and God's story |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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To Be Told is a unique book, a challenge and inspiration for people to take a close look at their own story, what God has been doing in their life, to gain insight as to what the Author has in store for the rest of story. More than that, it challenges us to become willing and active co-authors in that story. Dan Allender also makes a case for doing this in community, becoming listeners and editors in each others tales. Over the course of the book, he shares freely from his own story, getting extremely personal at times - which helps us understand his call to understand your Real self. Although the book is more than the sum of its components or a how-to book, here is the table of contents.
Part One: Your Name and Your Story
1. The Tale to be Told (Reading your life as God has written it)
2. What's Your Real Name
3. What Makes a Good Story (A better way to read your tragedies)
Part Two: Reading Your Story
4. Listening to what moves you
5. Facing the Tragedy that Shapes you
6. Getting Caught by your Calling
Part Three: Writing your Story
7. Writing your Destiny
8. Editing Together
Part Four: Multiplying Your Story
9. Story Feasting
10. Prayer that Reveals
11. The Fruit of Fasting
12. Giving Away Your Story (Allow your story to reveal God)
From the style of the book, I can see where many readers will be blown away by the power of the book, while others might well scratch their head and wonder "What am I supposed to do with this?" While the book offers questions for the readers to consider as they ponder their own story, there is a separate workbook that offers much more of a guided journey to understanding your story. (The book itself has too few questions, the workbook perhaps too many!?) Quotes praising the book are provided from John Eldredge, Brian McLaren, Stanley Grenz, and others. Readers with a strong artistic/creative side who revel in "story" will likely love this book. Those who scratch their heads confused by books like Wild at Heart or Epic (by Eldredge) may likewise have trouble connecting the dots with Allender's book. As an engineer I found myself somewhere in the middle - I really enjoyed the chapters on a better way to read tragedies and on getting caught by your calling but started to get lost in the second half of the book. It's an interesting read by itself, but those willing to actually put their own stories to paper will get the most out of To Be Told.
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| To Be told |
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This book arrived in a timely manner. It was in perfect shape. Thanks alot
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| Tell me a story... |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This book is extremely useful if you are at the point of analyzing your life's story. I am involved in an extremely intimate group of fellow believers and we had already taken the time to tell our individual stories to each other. It was exhausting and scary and made us extremely vulnerable to each other. And now, we are working through this book and discovering how our stories have affected us and how we can grow beyond them. So far, so good. I'm excited to see what God will do now that we have exposed the truth about ourselves. We already know that we will have to retell our stories after we have finished this book, but it doesn't seem so scary anymore. It is freeing to pinpoint the things that hold us back and the things that make us soar. It's also extremely important to see God's penmanship all over our lives. And it's wonderful to share the journey with dear, safe friends.
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| Brilliant tool |
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I really thought I was just going to pick up another book to be a tool in my 'writers' tool box. I had no idea that I would definably pick up the sharpest tool in the tool belt, and begin a journey of self discovery and encouragement.
To be told is an invitation to seeing that your life has a purpose and bringing hope to your future, all at the end of your own pen.
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| Explore the Themes of Your Life. |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This workbook is an excellent companion and continuation of the To Be Told book written by Dan Allender To Be Told: God Invites You to Coauthor Your Future. This companion workbook further explores the significant events in ones life by using questions that help you search your life for common themes. For anyone wanting to take the journey of understanding how God uses past experiences in life to determine ones calling, this workbook is a must have.
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