From Good to Grace: Letting Go of the Goodness Gospel, by Christine Hoover
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From Good to Grace: Letting Go of the Goodness Gospel, by Christine Hoover
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Popular blogger offers women freedom from performance-based Christianity by encouraging them to stop asking "What does God want from me?" and start asking "What does God want for me?"
From Good to Grace: Letting Go of the Goodness Gospel, by Christine Hoover- Amazon Sales Rank: #175795 in Books
- Brand: Hoover, Christine
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .57" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
From the Back Cover God is calling you to something greater than good.So many of us feel as if we do not do enough and, in fact, are not enough. We try hard to be good--a good friend, mom, wife, Christian, employee, or ministry leader--hoping for that "atta-girl" from God, some heavenly assertion that we matter. In the process, we find ourselves living by a lesser gospel: the gospel of goodness. It's a gospel without grace, and in the end, it's good for nothing.With compelling illustrations from her own life and from Scripture, Christine Hoover helps you start asking, "What does God want for me?" before asking, "What does God want from me?" You'll find yourself breathing a sigh of relief at this powerful message of freedom and hope. Rather than serving God out of obligation or duty, you'll be compelled to love and serve God with great joy."A song of freedom for the world-weary woman."--Emily T. Wierenga, award-winning journalist, artist, and author of Atlas Girl "This book is full of wisdom, and as you read it, your soul will breathe a deep sigh of relief."--Kelly Matte, wife of Gregg Matte, pastor of Houston's First Baptist Church and founder of Breakaway Ministries at Texas A&M University "Christine has written the book that I believe women in our generation are really dying to read."--Jess Connolly, entrepreneur and authorChristine Hoover is a pastor's wife, mom, speaker, and the author of The Church Planting Wife. She has written for The Gospel Coalition, Desiring God, and Christianity Today. Blogging at www.GraceCoversMe.com, she enjoys helping women apply the gift of God's grace to their daily lives. She lives in Virginia.
About the Author Christine Hoover is a pastor's wife, mom, speaker, and the author of The Church Planting Wife. She has written for The Gospel Coalition, Desiring God, and Christianity Today. Blogging at www.GraceCoversMe.com, she enjoys encouraging ministry wives and hel
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. A Book for Every Christian Woman, Not Just Those Who Think They Are Good. By Jessalyn Hutto Over the past several years there has been a growing awareness of a quiet sickness plaguing the church. It is quiet because it has the outward appearance of godliness and spiritual growth, and it is a sickness because it leads to spiritual exhaustion at its best and spiritual death at its very worst. It’s an extremely cruel enemy because it deceives people into feel good about their spiritual walks at one moment, and causes them to feel completely defeated by their indwelling sin and failures when they are inevitably revealed in the next.What great foe am I referring to? The temptation toward legalism and moralism in the Christian life. Christine Hoover refers to it as the “goodness gospel,” and says that when she lived under it, she “appeared to be a good Christian,” on the outside, but on the inside, “felt unlovable and was riddled with guilt about [her] inability to please God.” As an adherent to this false gospel, Christine “sought joy, peace, and love through being good, and instead found [herself] miserably enslaved to [her] own unattainable standards.” Perhaps you can relate?To be sure, many of us have found ourselves in a similar spiritual maze. We know that in and of ourselves, it is impossible to please God, and yet we so often faultily feel as though pleasing God is all up to us. This type of do-it-yourself Christianity has been the subject of many blog articles and books in recent years as the church seeks to reorient itself to the concept of grace-empowered Christianity. That is to say, enjoying the powerful work of God’s grace in a believer’s sanctification, and not just in their initial salvation. We have been inundated with calls to rest in the indicative realities of the Bible (what Christ has done for us), and to allow that sweet, gospel knowledge to produce the sanctification and holiness that we all so desperately desire.Yet, for many women I talk to, the question remains of how this actually happens.How does “resting in the gospel” help me to crucify the flesh and live a life that honors God?How does “resting in the gospel” not become its own legalistic standard?Is it wrong to work toward holiness?How does the gospel actual impact all of the minute details of my life as a woman?I am so pleased to tell you that Christine Hoover’s new book, From Good to Grace: Letting Go of the Goodness Gospel, systematically and triumphantly guides women through these marvelous, yet sometimes confusing ideas. As I finished reading From Good to Grace I found myself thanking God for bringing this book into existence. I truly feel that Christine has painstakingly provided a pivotal bridge between the theological realities of the gospel and the practical applications of the gospel. Reading this book is not only going to encourage women to shed the chains of legalism, but it is going to give them the understanding of how to do so in their everyday lives.So, let me tell you a little bit about this wonderful book.From Good to Grace begins with Christine sharing her own struggle with perfectionism. In the past she evaluated her spiritual life by how well she was performing, how others were responding to her, and how she compared to those around her. She was addicted to the goodness gospel, constantly evaluating herself, putting on an external show for herself and others, and mistakenly assuming that the Lord’s love for her fluctuated based upon her performance.All of this changed however, when the Lord drew her into a greater understanding of grace. Once she realized that she was not responsible for her own growth in holiness, but rather, that the Lord himself was responsible for it, Christine became a woman addicted to grace rather than goodness. After God “pulled her into his grace-filled arms,” she says, “what had always felt like duty and obligation [seeking to please God] now felt like crazy freedom.”She then goes on to explain how the grace of God frees us from the chains of the “goodness gospel” and allows us to live in joyful dependence on the Lord. But this dependency is a discipline that must be practiced each and every day, because we all naturally gravitate back to a works-based mentality with God. This is what Christine desires to encourage her readers toward: understanding “how Christ’s gospel of grace is for every single day.”The rest of From Good to Grace (the majority of the book) explores how the Bible beckons us to do just that.From Christine's personal writing style, to her helpful illustrations, there is much to love about From Good to Grace. There are two particular things I'd like to highlight, however:1.) Structure: The organization and flow of From Good to Grace is extremely helpful. It seems that many books being put out for women recently are made up of individual chapters that don’t necessarily build upon each other. These are helpful in that you can read a chapter at a time, digesting the material contained within its 6-10 pages in one sitting. Christine’s book benefits, however, from a more systematic approach, guiding the reader from one foundational truth to the many glorious and practical implications that flow out of it. This is extremely important when dealing with the subject matter of the gospel and sanctification as it aids the reader in understanding how the grace of God works itself out in our daily lives. She begins by explaining how we are to continually receive grace from God, and then moves on to how we are then able to be conduits of his grace to others.2.) A Focus on the Holy Spirit: This is perhaps the most important aspect of the book. How desperately we all need to be reminded of the Holy Spirit’s active work in our lives! And yet, how often this member of the Trinity is overlooked. Christine is careful to give due attention to his ministry to us, allowing us to gain fresh perspective on the way he powerfully works within us.One particularly helpful explanation for the Holy Spirit’s role in our spiritual growth was given in the context of the spiritual disciplines. We often think of the spiritual disciplines as a way we can work harder to be godlier, but Christine encourages us to look at them in a completely different light:"…spiritual disciplines are not intended as replacements for the Holy Spirit. They are intended as ways to ask for and receive help from the Holy Spirit. God is the director and main actor. We belong to him. Spiritual disciplines, when practiced correctly, place us in positions of submission and acknowledgment of need, and help us be ready receptors when the Holy Spirit moves, leads, speaks, or convicts. I am essentially using spiritual disciplines like a door, opening my heart to God, ready to receive from him. They are a means of continual receiving and, therefore, are vitally important."The Holy Spirit, then, is someone we are to be continually beseeching, receiving, and enjoying as bask in the glory of his grace.I can't say enough good things about this book. It will benefit every woman who picks it up, so please do!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Good to Grace = Wonderful! By DutyChronicles From Good to Grace reminds me, “a good mother is one who acknowledges her need for the power of God to train and teach and change the hearts of her children...the most important thing I can do each day is not to be good or rely on myself but to trust God and acknowledge my weakness. He will take my meager offering and turn it into a miracle.”This book has been eye-opening in its assessment of the cyclical patterns of “doing good” and feeling prideful or failing and beating myself up. When I am lacking in some area, I view myself as a failure and when I am succeeding I feel good and begin to suspect I earned it. It’s a rollercoaster with all the ups and downs and we can’t seem to find our way off the thing. She likens it to an open jail cell that we are choosing to stay and chain ourselves up in. There is no freedom in this way of thinking.Gal. 3:3 reminds us, “are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect in the flesh?” I never set out to be foolish, so how can I continue living by faith? Christine reminds us that when we receive from Jesus and savor and allow it to well up in us, the response overflows from the inside out. Jesus’ filling up inwardly is what allows us to turn outward and serve and love.Sometimes I’m too busy to be cognizant of the fact that the gospel has the power to inform everything I do: the reading, the praying and spiritual disciplines, but also the sacrificial washing of dishes, the laundry, the gentle response, the kindness to laugh at another undeniably ridiculous joke told by a 5-year-old. So, what if you and I lived as if the gospel were true every hour of every day? How would that change things? What freedom, what power, what openness and loving each other with abandon would ensue?Such questions cause us to think and reconsider, so it’s not an easy, fluffy book to read but for that I am grateful and I heartily recommend this book as long as you have time to really digest it. I was pleasantly surprised that there are discussion questions for each chapter in the back as well. This gives great potential for future book studies, which are a favorite of mine. I’ll leave you with a wonderful, summarizing quote from the book:“Let’s stop giving ourselves and others trite answers in the face of the daily struggles and realities of life. Directing people to have a quiet time, pray more, or go to church more isn’t going to change anything at the heart level. Directing people to God himself for comfort, security, and the ability to face the most difficult circumstances? That is when we invite the Holy Spirit to come alive in our hearts to mend, lead, convict and comfort. Let’s stop fighting against what we all know from experience to be true: we can’t live this Christian life. We need help. Let’s fall into our weakness, not in a giving-up sense or a self-flogging sense, but in recognition that we live only by the power of God.”
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. I will reread this book again. By Joy This is a great book.The overall question the books strives to answer is one that I feel almost all women struggle with, "Am I good enough?" As I read the book I kept hearing my own questions echoed in Christine's struggles and saying almost out loud to the book "yes, yes, yes that's exactly what I've been saying! How do I break out of this?" I don't want to give away the content of the book, mostly because once I got started, I don't think I would be able to stop because there is so much I was able to pull from this book.I love how Christine wrote the book. She was able to weave a beautiful work of words together using her own struggles, how God has brought her through those struggles and scripture to share with us how God wants to set us as well free from asking the question "Am I good enough?" That really is the wrong question. She also does not leave us faced with "Ok now what?" She helps the reader see how God wants us to live in freedom by being who we are, allowing that to be enough.If you, or someone you know, is struggling with feeling overwhelmed from your faith or you don't feel like you can keep going with how things are then this book can be a great tool for the Lord to set you free from trying to do it all.
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