Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life. Amanda Held Opelt, Amanda Held Opelt
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- Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life
- Amanda Held Opelt, Amanda Held Opelt
- Page: 272
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- ISBN: 9781546001928
- Publisher: Worthy
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Notes From Your Bookseller e often feel like the Christian life should be a happy one and we should quickly move past negative feelings and experiences. But what if the opposite is true? What if our unhappiness is holy too? This book offers true hope in our darkest days. Discover what it means to be blessed and challenge the false beliefs many in the church hold about “the good life” and what it means to walk in communion with God.American Christians have developed a long list of expectations about what the life with God will feel like. Many Christians rightly deny the prosperity gospel—the idea that God wants you to be healthy and wealthy— but instead embrace its more subtle spin-off, the emotional prosperity gospel, or the belief that happiness and spiritual euphoria will inevitably follow if you believe all the right things and make all the right choices. In this view, frustration is deemed unholy, fear is seen as a failure of faith, and sadness is a sign of God’s disfavor. In Holy Unhappiness, Amanda Held Opelt, author of A Hole in the World, grapples with her own experience of disillusionment when life with God didn’t always feel the way she expected it to feel. She examines some of the historic, religious, and cultural influences that led to the idolization of positive feelings and the marginalization of negative feelings. Unpacking nine elements of life that have been tainted by the message of the emotional Prosperity Gospel – including work, marriage, parenting, calling, community, and church - she points to a new path forward, one that reimagines what the “blessed” life can be like if we release some of our expectations and seek God in places we never thought to look. This is a book that asks “what good is God?” when he doesn’t always make sorrow go away or soothe every fear. It is a book that explores our aversion to sadness and counts the costs of our unrelenting commitment to optimism. This is a book that insists there is holiness to be found even in our unhappiness.
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1880The value of the individual life which he de- picts is the value of a certain the ancient prophecy , * Ye shall be as gods , knowing good and evil .
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