The Barnabas Way: An Unexpected Path to God

by John D. Sloan

Using the New Testament story of Barnabas as a model, the author shows how we can experience a richer relationship with God by reaching out to those around us who are hurting and need our help and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578565758
• ISBN13: 9781578565757
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Waterbrook Press
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Strength for the Journey of Life

Here's a small book which has large ideas and heart-touching content for every reader. As Sloan writes, "The most remarkable aspect of the Barnabas Way is this: It works whether or not a person knows the right spiritual technique or the right prayers or the right answers on the Bible quiz. Even for those in the worst of life's situations, who feel like what Philip Yancey calls, "neglected saints, who learn to anticipate and enjoy God in spite of the difficulties of their lives on earth." These find true blessing because, "In their lives, the Beatitudes have become true."" This book provides incredible insight for anyone who gives or needs encouragement.

A Role Model for All of Us

After completing The Barnabas Way, I felt compelled to accomplish three tasks with some dispatch: to read it again, to jot the author a thank you note and to buy another copy to send along with the note, asking the author to inscribe it to my best friend.In a time when bookshelves are crowded with variations on the "what's in it for me?" philosophy of the spiritual life, Mr. Sloan answers that question elegantly by refusing to recognize it as the appropriate question. He declines to preach or promise; instead, he points the reader to Barnabas, illuminating his hero's story with contemporary illustrations that bring him to life. In so doing, he allows us to see for ourselves the way to "an unexpected path to God."To read this deceptively slim volume is to be reminded that "what's in it for me?" is far richer than we suppose, that it's available to all of us and that the path to it diverges from what many of us assume. Barnabas and his modern descendants put feet and hands to the revolutionary ideas about who and how God loves that Phillip Yancey makes clear in What's So Amazing About Grace.