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The Only One: Living Fully In, By, and For God
THE MOVEMENT STARTS WITH YOU.
Do you doubt you can actually make a difference in the world? Do you struggle with knowing how to express your faith in the daily routines of life? The Only One: Living Fully In, By, and For God shares simple approaches to grow as a follower of Jesus.
Dive into the concepts and tools to find the connection between “being” and “doing” with God.
Designed to be read, processed, shared, and used to equip others, The Only One is a tool to not only grow as a disciple, but also to make and multiply disciples. This is about living into a greater impact on the world and the purpose for which God designed you. It’s time to experience life with Him, and others, as a joyful and exciting adventure—read this book and get started!
Do you doubt you can actually make a difference in the world? Do you struggle with knowing how to express your faith in the daily routines of life? The Only One: Living Fully In, By, and For God shares simple approaches to grow as a follower of Jesus.
Dive into the concepts and tools to find the connection between “being” and “doing” with God.
Designed to be read, processed, shared, and used to equip others, The Only One is a tool to not only grow as a disciple, but also to make and multiply disciples. This is about living into a greater impact on the world and the purpose for which God designed you. It’s time to experience life with Him, and others, as a joyful and exciting adventure—read this book and get started!
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276 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 1, 2019
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December 17, 2024
This book was reallllly interesting to me. 20% of the time, I thought it was super practical and helpful. But the other 80%, it felt like he was creating a list of rules and techniques to follow Jesus that aren’t commanded in scripture and don’t actually make a lot of sense. Living in the way he advises seems highly unrealistic and seems like a straight path to legalism. Was not a fan
July 11, 2021
This is a must-read book for anyone who claims Christ as Lord and wants to, not only grow deeper in their faith, but to pursue active discipleship. The Only One centers around the concept of "theopraxy" which Sergeant defines as a "life lived in, by, and for God--a life focused solely on God."
For modern-day believers, who are bombarded with a multitude of things competing for our attention, this book reminds us that there is only One who deserves our loyalty, devotion, and service. Full of scripture references to guide his thoughts, this practical guide to theocentric living is greatly needed today.
"Jesus is looking for a particular kind of follower--those who recognize him as the most important thing in the universe." This is a book to convict and motivate us to walk the narrow path of the upside-down Kingdom, and not just walk it, but take others along with us. It's a book to be read, processed, applied, taught and implemented, and then to start all over again.
A recommended resource for individuals and groups of believers who don't want to maintain the status-quo in their "Christian" life.
For modern-day believers, who are bombarded with a multitude of things competing for our attention, this book reminds us that there is only One who deserves our loyalty, devotion, and service. Full of scripture references to guide his thoughts, this practical guide to theocentric living is greatly needed today.
"Jesus is looking for a particular kind of follower--those who recognize him as the most important thing in the universe." This is a book to convict and motivate us to walk the narrow path of the upside-down Kingdom, and not just walk it, but take others along with us. It's a book to be read, processed, applied, taught and implemented, and then to start all over again.
A recommended resource for individuals and groups of believers who don't want to maintain the status-quo in their "Christian" life.
December 11, 2024
More like a 2.5 ⭐️ Like not uber terrible but nothing I could see myself recommending. He had a few helpful ideas but truly nothing groundbreaking.
In the book’s defense, I think I would’ve liked it better if I hadn’t read it as a staff & discussed it and if we hadn’t taken so long to read it. But lowkey what does it say about a book if it’s not worth discussing or reading slowly? 😅
In the book’s defense, I think I would’ve liked it better if I hadn’t read it as a staff & discussed it and if we hadn’t taken so long to read it. But lowkey what does it say about a book if it’s not worth discussing or reading slowly? 😅
October 16, 2019
This book is both refreshing and challenging. It makes a strong case for Theopraxy.
Some of my favourite quotes from the book include:
As Dallas Willard said (http://www.dwillard.org/ar…/individua...), Grace is not opposed to effort. It is opposed to earning. Effort is action. Earning is attitude. The New Testament expects God’s children to take action to live out their faith.
Pride puts us in a position of competing with God for glory. We cannot expect a relationship with God if we are competing with Him.
God wants to be recognized as the exclusive source of all good and necessary blessings, the answer to every need. He loves it when we come to Him for protection.
Theopraxy is a team sport. When God adopts us as His children, we get a new Father. We also get new brothers and sisters. We cannot have a good relationship with our Father if we don’t get along with our brothers and sisters. This is one of the fundamental themes of 1 John, written by “the disciple whom Jesus loved”:
I am not the judge. God is. My brothers and sisters will not appear before me on judgment day. They will stand before God. And God, by His grace, is able to make them stand. When I feel the urge to criticize, I try to remind myself that I have enough difficulty fulfilling my own responsibilities to the Lord. I don’t need to assume responsibility for anyone else. God is their judge, not me.
The real good news is that we can know, serve, and have an intimate relationship with the indescribable Lord of all creation—the good, perfect, kind, and loving God.
Some of my favourite quotes from the book include:
As Dallas Willard said (http://www.dwillard.org/ar…/individua...), Grace is not opposed to effort. It is opposed to earning. Effort is action. Earning is attitude. The New Testament expects God’s children to take action to live out their faith.
Pride puts us in a position of competing with God for glory. We cannot expect a relationship with God if we are competing with Him.
God wants to be recognized as the exclusive source of all good and necessary blessings, the answer to every need. He loves it when we come to Him for protection.
Theopraxy is a team sport. When God adopts us as His children, we get a new Father. We also get new brothers and sisters. We cannot have a good relationship with our Father if we don’t get along with our brothers and sisters. This is one of the fundamental themes of 1 John, written by “the disciple whom Jesus loved”:
I am not the judge. God is. My brothers and sisters will not appear before me on judgment day. They will stand before God. And God, by His grace, is able to make them stand. When I feel the urge to criticize, I try to remind myself that I have enough difficulty fulfilling my own responsibilities to the Lord. I don’t need to assume responsibility for anyone else. God is their judge, not me.
The real good news is that we can know, serve, and have an intimate relationship with the indescribable Lord of all creation—the good, perfect, kind, and loving God.
September 25, 2019
Swallowed this one whole, though that's not how it's meant to be read. The best way to get the most out of it would be to go through with a group who were committed to walking with one another and pursuing personal growth. And willing to be vulnerable and accountable. Read the whole thing before you decide to dive in with others.
I'm marking this a "missions" book and expect to review it in Missions Catalyst. But it's really about living a life fully surrendered to God and doing what He says -- a key principle in making disciples, anywhere -- than most of the DMM/CPM lit that's been coming out. The author has been a huge influence on those who teach and write on this, but he's never written a book and only does so now because he says God told him too. Says he thinks one of the big problems many of us have is filling up our lives with projects, ambitions, habits that =aren't= what God tells us to pursue. Lots of probing questions and fruitful practices for reorienting and seeking God personally and in community.
This book is chock full of scripture. The ebook version, being given away for free, has this advantage: clickable links to pull up the verses mentioned (as well as a few other resources).
Evidently covers similar ground as Steve Smith's book Spirit Walk, though I've not read that.
I'm marking this a "missions" book and expect to review it in Missions Catalyst. But it's really about living a life fully surrendered to God and doing what He says -- a key principle in making disciples, anywhere -- than most of the DMM/CPM lit that's been coming out. The author has been a huge influence on those who teach and write on this, but he's never written a book and only does so now because he says God told him too. Says he thinks one of the big problems many of us have is filling up our lives with projects, ambitions, habits that =aren't= what God tells us to pursue. Lots of probing questions and fruitful practices for reorienting and seeking God personally and in community.
This book is chock full of scripture. The ebook version, being given away for free, has this advantage: clickable links to pull up the verses mentioned (as well as a few other resources).
Evidently covers similar ground as Steve Smith's book Spirit Walk, though I've not read that.
December 16, 2022
Curtis Sergeant accomplishes in this book what many Christian authors try and fail to do. He directly looks at his audience and calls them to a life of living fully for God. What he calls theopraxy, he takes us one practical step at a time, while lathering every chapter with Scripture, towards understanding how we can be fully devoted to God today and live on mission in the context that we live in.
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