The Time for Yes: Enjoying What's Best in Life, Work, and Love

by Greg Cootsona

In The Time for Yes, Greg Cootsona looks at the critical When do we say yes? He offers key insights in the triangle of personal life, work, and friendships and gives clear, practical suggestions for the times to say yes and how to live the right rhythm of yeses and nos. The Time for Yes unfolds in the three-part progression of first, to discover the life just beyond our nos, we listen for a deeper Voice, calling us. This involves becoming quiet and seeking to hear the God who calls. Testing represents the second step. Hearing some yeses? It’s time to test them out. Third is grooving with a healthy rhythm of yeses and nos, where notes and silences, beats and spaces, produce beautiful music and where we move with the heartbeat of life. The final section lays out how knowing when to say yes leads to a successful and beautiful life.

72 pages, Paperback

First published October 11, 2012

About the author

Greg Cootsona (PhD, Graduate Theological Union) is a writer, researcher, and speaker. He directs Science and Theology for Emerging Adult Ministries (or STEAM) at Fuller Theological Seminary, and teaches religious studies and humanities at California State University at Chico. Cootsona studied comparative literature at U. C. Berkeley and theology at Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv), the Universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg, and Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union, where he received his PhD. He recently finished eighteen years as associate pastor for adult discipleship at Bidwell Presbyterian Church in Chico and Fifth Avenue Presbyterian in New York City. He has been interviewed by CNN, the BBC, the New York Times, and the Today Show.