How to Inherit the Earth: Submitting Ourselves to a Servant Savior

by Scott A. Bessenecker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830837280
• ISBN13: 9780830837281
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: IVP
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.9"