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Plan Be
Plan Be is a simple practical easy-to-use manual for a do-it-yourself global ethical revolution.
In this book Dave Andrews rescues the 'beatitudes' from their obscurity as a poetic introduction to Jesus' sermon on the Mount, and reframes them as a set of radical 'Be-Attitudes' that we can use as a life-changing framework for 'being the change we want to see in the world'.
In 8 concise punchy chapters Dave unpacks the hidden dynamics in the 8 Be-Attitudes and shows us how they can help us reshape our personal-political worlds.
In this book Dave Andrews rescues the 'beatitudes' from their obscurity as a poetic introduction to Jesus' sermon on the Mount, and reframes them as a set of radical 'Be-Attitudes' that we can use as a life-changing framework for 'being the change we want to see in the world'.
In 8 concise punchy chapters Dave unpacks the hidden dynamics in the 8 Be-Attitudes and shows us how they can help us reshape our personal-political worlds.
112 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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Dave Andrews
56 books9 followersDavid Frank Andrews is an Australian Christian anarchist author, speaker, social activist, community worker, and a key figure in the Waiter's Union, an inner city Christian community network working with Aboriginals, refugees and people with disabilities in Brisbane, Australia.
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February 24, 2016
Love the quote from Indiana's own, Kurt Vonnegut, "For some reason the most vocal Christians among us never mention the beatitudes. But - often with tears in their eyes - they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings and of course that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the beatitudes, be posted anywhere." Yeah, I've noticed that, too, and wondered about it for a long time. Now I get it, not that I like it. This is a sweet little book (95 pgs.) that I want to recommend to bible studies, home groups, etc. or, for that matter, anyone who is looking for a fresh take on the beatitudes by a guy who, by all accounts, is serious about following Jesus. You can forget Plan A. Go with Plan Be!
February 19, 2009
Review by Kate Cornish
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I didn't want to write this review because I didn't love this book. I wondered if I had missed something, because the people quoted on the back of Dave's book were very effusive about it. I had hoped I would also gush enthusiastically when I'd finished, but I closed the last page, thoughtfully wondering what I should do with what I'd read, wanting to read it again, and wishing there was a more specific "How to Be" checklist.
Plan Be is Dave Andrews' very easy-to-read examination of the Beatitudes. He says that the Beatitudes are "… an original, imaginative and brilliantly do-able set of realistic ideals that give us a way to engage a world of poverty and violence." Dave unpacks each statement in the Beatitudes, opening it up so we can see right inside to its meaning, and worse still, to some of its possible implications for our lives and communities.
What frustrated me about this book was that Dave had not given me a list of things to do to fulfil the Beatitudes (and then get back on with my life). The only checklist he provides is the Beatitudes themselves, suggesting the reader meditate on them, make them part of their life, join in with others trying to do the same… No easy answers, no quick fix, just an assurance that they can be followed, and encouragement that practice makes perfect.
The nerve! No boxes to click, no emails to send, no guilt to appease for $30 a month, but a call to revolution, one Be-ing at a time.
READ MORE AT:
http://www.tear.org.au/education/revi...
I didn't want to write this review because I didn't love this book. I wondered if I had missed something, because the people quoted on the back of Dave's book were very effusive about it. I had hoped I would also gush enthusiastically when I'd finished, but I closed the last page, thoughtfully wondering what I should do with what I'd read, wanting to read it again, and wishing there was a more specific "How to Be" checklist.
Plan Be is Dave Andrews' very easy-to-read examination of the Beatitudes. He says that the Beatitudes are "… an original, imaginative and brilliantly do-able set of realistic ideals that give us a way to engage a world of poverty and violence." Dave unpacks each statement in the Beatitudes, opening it up so we can see right inside to its meaning, and worse still, to some of its possible implications for our lives and communities.
What frustrated me about this book was that Dave had not given me a list of things to do to fulfil the Beatitudes (and then get back on with my life). The only checklist he provides is the Beatitudes themselves, suggesting the reader meditate on them, make them part of their life, join in with others trying to do the same… No easy answers, no quick fix, just an assurance that they can be followed, and encouragement that practice makes perfect.
The nerve! No boxes to click, no emails to send, no guilt to appease for $30 a month, but a call to revolution, one Be-ing at a time.
March 25, 2011
For some mysterious reason many Christians trumpet the Ten Commandments as our standard for living. They seem to forget that when Christ came he completed the Law and that if we are to observe one part of it, we need to obey every part of it. Christians have a different and higher set of principles to live by, which Jesus taught in his inaugural sermon: the Beatitudes.
Dave Andrews guides readers through the virtues the Beatitudes challenge us to live — humility, empathy, self-restraint, righteousness, mercy, integrity, non-violence, perseverance — and gives us practical ways to develop and express each one.
This is a paradigm-shattering book. Through sound Biblical teaching and a heart for people, Andrews will reshape what you think about the Beatitudes in a way that is at once freeing and challenging.
Perhaps the reason so many Christians aspire to the Ten Commandments is that they are easier to live — and easier to see when you've broken them. Truly living the Beatitudes is revolutionary.
Dave Andrews guides readers through the virtues the Beatitudes challenge us to live — humility, empathy, self-restraint, righteousness, mercy, integrity, non-violence, perseverance — and gives us practical ways to develop and express each one.
This is a paradigm-shattering book. Through sound Biblical teaching and a heart for people, Andrews will reshape what you think about the Beatitudes in a way that is at once freeing and challenging.
Perhaps the reason so many Christians aspire to the Ten Commandments is that they are easier to live — and easier to see when you've broken them. Truly living the Beatitudes is revolutionary.
February 5, 2015
I thought this book did a good job a presenting its viewpoint on how to apply the be-attitudes to daily life. There are certainly many differing points of view on how they should be taken. While I was reading this one, I heard a number of different comments on other ways to view those passages, but this book still presented its ideas in a practical context which I appreciated. It is also a short book, so there is no bogging down in a lot of detail. It is a quick read.
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