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This book is another great read by Leonard Sweet. He discusses how Jesus brings us to him by “Nudges” and not through beatings. Turning your life over the Christ typically isn’t an overnight transformation, but people responding to little “nudges” throughout their life. Sweet encourages us to be a part of those nudges in other peoples lives.
A wonderful meander through the Sweet school of discipleship. Reading this books makes you wish you could hang with Leonard and pick up the scraps of wisdom he continually throws off. And he has such a pleasant, optimistic manner you gotta think he's a riot to have beers with.
The content is similar to a number of other Sweet books. He argues convincingly that Christianity and Christians should be more real and more pleasant. The You-Catch-More-Flies-With-Honey school of discipleship. He is (mildly) critical of the "spread fear, sell hope" style of Christianity..
It's much deeper than being friendly. He builds on the case he set out in "The Gospel According to Starbucks" that Christian experience needs to be EPIC: Experiential, Participatory. Image Rich, Connective.
In many way, this kind of dirt-under-the-fingernail-from-gardeing living is sorely missing in our lives. Sensuous, Aesthetic, Rich, the whole thing makes you want to put your hands on the tender green leaves sprouting from the coffee brown loam of people's lives. Kind of like abundant living - green growing everywhere. He has a way of making the spiritual palpably real - which, it seem, is our commission.
Leonard Sweet walks the tightrope of life loves it - and he make you want to get on the rope with him.
Read this book along with a couple of his others - you won't regret it.
The content is similar to a number of other Sweet books. He argues convincingly that Christianity and Christians should be more real and more pleasant. The You-Catch-More-Flies-With-Honey school of discipleship. He is (mildly) critical of the "spread fear, sell hope" style of Christianity..
It's much deeper than being friendly. He builds on the case he set out in "The Gospel According to Starbucks" that Christian experience needs to be EPIC: Experiential, Participatory. Image Rich, Connective.
In many way, this kind of dirt-under-the-fingernail-from-gardeing living is sorely missing in our lives. Sensuous, Aesthetic, Rich, the whole thing makes you want to put your hands on the tender green leaves sprouting from the coffee brown loam of people's lives. Kind of like abundant living - green growing everywhere. He has a way of making the spiritual palpably real - which, it seem, is our commission.
Leonard Sweet walks the tightrope of life loves it - and he make you want to get on the rope with him.
Read this book along with a couple of his others - you won't regret it.
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Nudge by Leonard Sweet is an extraordinarily intelligent and completely out-of-the-box thinking about evangelism. Sweet, a well known author and pastor, wants readers to awaken to the world of nudges, the ones we receive from God and others and the ones we can give to others to teach them about God. Evangelism has acquired a bad name occasionally because it often becomes one person out-talking the other and trying to force ideas down their throat. Nudge completely turns traditional evangelism on its head, by encouraging people to listen far more often than speak, to pay attention to what makes other people smile and hurt and use that knowledge to gently nudge with a love for God. Rather than the traditional view of evangelism that wants Christians to begin by telling their own testimony and talk about what God is doing in their life, Sweet wants them to find out how God is working in the nonbeliever's life and work from there. This is truly a book to be devoured, because the terrific wisdom must be ingested to be understood. While I read this book every night, I kept a pen and notebook at my elbow, because I was constantly writing down thoughts and quotes that rang so true, I wanted to tuck them permanently into my heart. Sweet's discussions about the five sense and how God speaks to us through them are extraordinary and will resonate with readers long after the book is finished. I'm passing this book on to my husband, and when he's through, I will probably read it again. It's really that good.