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Know Be Do: Turning the Christian Life Right Side Up
Know Be Do is the "WWJD" of this generation.
In the tradition of "What Would Jesus Do?" Know Be Do is more than a book. It's a movement. It transforms the Christian walk from an uphill battle into a guided tour with God. Most Christians lead a life of frustration, futility, and failure. They feel they never live up to God's standards and live out His commands. They define Christianity by what they do and don't do. They're living the Christian life upside down, and they don't even realize it. Know Be Do turns the Christian life right side up. With powerful stories and winsome wit that make it an engaging read, Know Be Do shows you how to intimately, biblically know God, how to accept and employ your position in Christ (be), and how to act on His authority and appropriate His power (do). It connects the dots of the Christian life in a way that makes sense out of a maze of disconnected Christian concepts and equips you for a lifelong and ever-fascinating journey of walking the Christian life right side up.
Discover Know Be Do Bible study resources and more at LarryAlanThompson.com
In the tradition of "What Would Jesus Do?" Know Be Do is more than a book. It's a movement. It transforms the Christian walk from an uphill battle into a guided tour with God. Most Christians lead a life of frustration, futility, and failure. They feel they never live up to God's standards and live out His commands. They define Christianity by what they do and don't do. They're living the Christian life upside down, and they don't even realize it. Know Be Do turns the Christian life right side up. With powerful stories and winsome wit that make it an engaging read, Know Be Do shows you how to intimately, biblically know God, how to accept and employ your position in Christ (be), and how to act on His authority and appropriate His power (do). It connects the dots of the Christian life in a way that makes sense out of a maze of disconnected Christian concepts and equips you for a lifelong and ever-fascinating journey of walking the Christian life right side up.
Discover Know Be Do Bible study resources and more at LarryAlanThompson.com
288 pages, Paperback
First published May 25, 2016
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About the author
Larry Alan Thompson
1 book14 followersAn award-winning creative writer, Larry Alan Thompson has made a career out of distilling a message down to its simplest form—and making it memorable. Combine this experience with seminary training, a decades-long quest for knowing God, and ministry at one of the largest churches in the world, and you get a breakthrough book like Know Be Do. President and CEO of Eternity Communications, Thompson uses his wit and wisdom to create Christianity’s newest catchphrase: Know Be Do. His innovative perspective offers a whole new lens for reading the Bible and experiencing God.
Larry has been married to his wife Tina, also an author and Bible teacher, for 33 years. They have two married daughters. Larry and Tina live in Lexington, Kentucky in a 173-year-old historic home.
Larry has been married to his wife Tina, also an author and Bible teacher, for 33 years. They have two married daughters. Larry and Tina live in Lexington, Kentucky in a 173-year-old historic home.
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August 16, 2016
If you're looking for an objective and unbiased review, look elsewhere. In the interest of full disclosure, the author is a dear friend of mine and someone who has earned my profound respect and admiration. I think you'll find his writing to be as clever and as concerned with the exaltation of Christ as I know him to be in life.
I've had dozens of conversations with him over the last few years where he has expounded upon the Know Be Do theme and its applications. When I picked up the book to read it, I frankly expected that I had "already heard it all", and to some degree that was true. But the book goes farther than the sum of our previous conversations, so once again I've been confronted with the painful truth that I really don't know all there is to know.
I pray that all who will read this will come into a deeper relationship with God (know), to embrace their position in Christ (be), and will be used of God to accomplish much for the sake of the Kingdom of Christ (do). See? I was paying attention!
I've had dozens of conversations with him over the last few years where he has expounded upon the Know Be Do theme and its applications. When I picked up the book to read it, I frankly expected that I had "already heard it all", and to some degree that was true. But the book goes farther than the sum of our previous conversations, so once again I've been confronted with the painful truth that I really don't know all there is to know.
I pray that all who will read this will come into a deeper relationship with God (know), to embrace their position in Christ (be), and will be used of God to accomplish much for the sake of the Kingdom of Christ (do). See? I was paying attention!
June 7, 2016
I see the Know Be Do concept everywhere now. It has made so many things click, and helped me to get the order and the focus right in my Christian life. Everything flows from Knowing... then to Being... then to Doing. And we wonder why it's so hard to DO the right things... We've got this order wrong.
Getting the Know-Be-Do concept in the right order gives God the glory as it should be, as I KNOW Him better; allows me rest in who I am in Him, as I BEcome the person He wants me to be; and then lets me DO for the right reasons, with the right motivation, and with so much more energy since it's flowing out of Know Be Do!
Great book. Well-written, with just the right amount of practical help for the Christian life, interspersed with stories and examples from the author's life and from the Bible that help the concepts to click.
Getting the Know-Be-Do concept in the right order gives God the glory as it should be, as I KNOW Him better; allows me rest in who I am in Him, as I BEcome the person He wants me to be; and then lets me DO for the right reasons, with the right motivation, and with so much more energy since it's flowing out of Know Be Do!
Great book. Well-written, with just the right amount of practical help for the Christian life, interspersed with stories and examples from the author's life and from the Bible that help the concepts to click.
June 6, 2016
I see the Know Be Do concept everywhere now. It has made so many things click, and helped me to get the order and the focus right in my Christian life. Everything flows from Knowing... then to Being... then to Doing. And we wonder why it's so hard to DO the right things... We've got this order wrong.
Getting the Know-Be-Do concept in the right order gives God the glory as it should be, as I KNOW Him better; allows me rest in who I am in Him, as I BEcome the person He wants me to be; and then lets me DO for the right reasons, with the right motivation, and with so much more energy since it's flowing out of Know Be Do!
Great book. Well-written, with just the right amount of practical help for the Christian life, interspersed with stories and examples from the author's life and from the Bible that help the concepts to click.
Getting the Know-Be-Do concept in the right order gives God the glory as it should be, as I KNOW Him better; allows me rest in who I am in Him, as I BEcome the person He wants me to be; and then lets me DO for the right reasons, with the right motivation, and with so much more energy since it's flowing out of Know Be Do!
Great book. Well-written, with just the right amount of practical help for the Christian life, interspersed with stories and examples from the author's life and from the Bible that help the concepts to click.
June 7, 2016
I find myself constantly jotting "Know Be Do" next to passages in the Scriptures now because I see the concept everywhere.
This is a great Bible study tool. Once you start looking for the Know, the Be, and the Do in each passage, it helps the focus become clear. This fingerprint is all over. From the beginner, to the seasoned theologian, I could see how this method will produce so much fruit because it already has in my life.
This is a great Bible study tool. Once you start looking for the Know, the Be, and the Do in each passage, it helps the focus become clear. This fingerprint is all over. From the beginner, to the seasoned theologian, I could see how this method will produce so much fruit because it already has in my life.
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