Abide: Practicing Kingdom Rhythms In a Consumer Culture, Member Book

by Jared C. Wilson

Young Adults will enjoy participating in this 5 session study, Abide: Practicing Kingdom Rhythms In a Consumer Culture, designed to illuminate and make relevant key sections from the Sermon on the Mount.

In Abide, author Jared C. Wilson examines important sections from the Sermon on the Mount, and helps young adults see how these practices subvert the rhythms of culture so deeply ingrained in us. That subversion begins to happen when we stop striving to do a better job at Christianity and start finding the rhythm of truly being a Christian.

Sessions:

Introduction: The Kingdom Versus Suburbia
Session 1: Feeling Scripture - Move Past Just Reading
Session 2: Intentional Prayer - Fight The Sickness Of Hurry
Session 3: Purposeful Fasting - Deprive With Meaning
Session 4: Joyful Service - Make Room For Others
Session 5: Genuine Community - Do It Together
Author:
Jared C. Wilson is the author of Your Jesus Is Too Safe: Outgrowing a Drive-Thru, Feel-Good Savior as well as articles and essays appearing in numerous publications. He is the pastor of Middletown Church in Middletown Springs, Vermont, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Jared C. Wilson is the Director of Content Strategy for Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Managing Editor of For The Church (ftc.co), and Director of the Pastoral Training Center at Liberty Baptist Church in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the author of numerous books, including "Gospel Wakefulness," "The Prodigal Church," and, most recently, "The Imperfect Disciple." Wilson blogs regularly at gospeldrivenchurch.com, hosted by The Gospel Coalition and is a frequent speaker at conferences and churches around the world.

Reviews

[Kristi]

Content in this devotional was excellent, but some of the reflection questions were lacking. Abide offers readers a biblical perspective for maintaining a gospel-centered focus and way of life, lived out through disciplines like reading Scripture, prayer, fasting, serving, and being in community. Wilson challenges you to put the focus on Christ and not yourself, living counter-culturally in our consumer, self-focused world. As you pursue the disciplines, you do so from the "being" of faith, resting on Christ, not a legalistic "doing."

[Mona]

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