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Junk Drawer Jesus: Discarding Your Spiritual Clutter and Rediscovering the Supremacy of Grace
Each of us is the owner of a seemingly random collection of theologies, doctrines, and superstitions—a junk drawer of religious ideas and influences.
It's the witticisms your grandmother tossed around with ease that sounded like they came from a religious text.It's an insight about God from a half-heard sermon at a friend's church.It's the mental screenshot of a meme shared on social media.It's the empowering idea you underlined in a book and wrote on a Post-it Note now forever affixed to your laptop.These are the things stuffed in our spiritual junk drawers. And as with that stash of old clothes in the closet or that stew of phone chargers, pens, and half-used batteries sitting in your kitchen drawer, something in us says, "This might be useful." And so we hold on.
But should we? For many, this junk drawer spirituality has become burdensome. We are worn down by the religious experience it creates and frustrated by a collection of traditions, "truths," and unfulfilled promises that continue to grow. In Junk Drawer Jesus, the spiritually exhausted are invited to examine our religious clutter and compare it to the person and the promises of Jesus Christ.
We'll discover what—if anything—of our spiritual collection should be kept. In the process, we rediscover the soul-satisfying simplicity of a God who refuses to fill our lives with junk but instead offers grace upon grace.
It's the witticisms your grandmother tossed around with ease that sounded like they came from a religious text.It's an insight about God from a half-heard sermon at a friend's church.It's the mental screenshot of a meme shared on social media.It's the empowering idea you underlined in a book and wrote on a Post-it Note now forever affixed to your laptop.These are the things stuffed in our spiritual junk drawers. And as with that stash of old clothes in the closet or that stew of phone chargers, pens, and half-used batteries sitting in your kitchen drawer, something in us says, "This might be useful." And so we hold on.
But should we? For many, this junk drawer spirituality has become burdensome. We are worn down by the religious experience it creates and frustrated by a collection of traditions, "truths," and unfulfilled promises that continue to grow. In Junk Drawer Jesus, the spiritually exhausted are invited to examine our religious clutter and compare it to the person and the promises of Jesus Christ.
We'll discover what—if anything—of our spiritual collection should be kept. In the process, we rediscover the soul-satisfying simplicity of a God who refuses to fill our lives with junk but instead offers grace upon grace.
196 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 15, 2024
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December 8, 2024
The premise of this book is to use the metaphor of a drawer filled with things. Is it filled with Jesus or Jesus and a bunch of other things. Things that seem like good ideas but actually amount to distractions or worse, unbiblical. A good book, but for my tastes the first half is a bit wordy and could have been said with less. At first I thought it would make a good discipleship book, read and discuss. After a few chapters I realized that it might be a bit too much to digest in Bible studies. Still, the book gives a person things to think and pray about.
November 16, 2024
Such a blessing
Read this! It's beautiful, simple, filled with truth and GOSPEL. It's like a warm hug and reminds the reader of what ultimately matters. Oh and it made me laugh.
Read this! It's beautiful, simple, filled with truth and GOSPEL. It's like a warm hug and reminds the reader of what ultimately matters. Oh and it made me laugh.
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