REFLECT: Becoming Yourself by Mirroring the Greatest Person in History

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What's the most important thing in the universe to you? What, more than anything else, permeates your thought life, pulls your heart strings, and propels your actions? Don't fool yourself. That supreme something-whatever it may be for you-is shaping the person you are becoming, for better or for worse, turning you into someone radiant and full of life, or making you a dim and weightless ghost of yourself. But what if we worshipped Jesus? Not the imaginary Jesus invented by televangelism, consumerism, fundamentalism, mysticism, or some political ism, but the actual Jesus we meet in the New Testament? How can he, unlike any other object of worship, enlarge our intellects, our emotions, our actions, our relationships, our imaginations, our whole selves? Drawing from science, literature, art, theology, history, music, philosophy, pop culture, and more, Thaddeus J. Williams paints a fresh and inspiring vision of how we become most truly ourselves by mirroring the Greatest Person in History. How to Meet Your Future Self REFLECT Overview 1.Reason: Mirroring the Profound Thinking of Jesus 2.Emote: Mirroring the Just Sentiments of Jesus 3.Flip: Mirroring the Upside-Down Action of Jesus 4.Love: Mirroring the Radical Relationality of Jesus 5.Elevate: Mirroring the Saving Grace of Jesus 6.Create: Mirroring the Artistic Genius of Jesus 7.Transform: Mirroring Jesus in All of Life REFLECTion Log Appendix A: The Secret of Becoming Irrelevant (Spend All Your Time Trying to Be Relevant) Appendix B: Doing Our Theology as if It Is Actually True (Because It Is) Acknowledgments Notes General Index Scripture Index About the Author