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The World Is Not Ours to Save Tyler Wigg-Stevenson

The World Is Not Ours to Save By Tyler Wigg-Stevenson

The World Is Not Ours to Save by Tyler Wigg-Stevenson


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Summary

Daily news of systemic injustice has caused activist rhetoric to balloon. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson hopes to slow this trend, suggesting that our complex global situation is forcing us to see our limits as world-changers. He calls Christians to leave aside the heady pursuit of causes and take their rightful place as standard-bearers of God?s peace.

The World Is Not Ours to Save Summary

The World Is Not Ours to Save: Finding the Freedom to Do Good by Tyler Wigg-Stevenson

  • The 2014 Christianity Today Book Award Winner (Christianity and Culture)
  • 2014 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year (Compassion)
We want to save the world-and we have a dizzying array of worthy causes to pursue. But passionate enthusiasm can quickly give way to disillusionment, compassion fatigue or empty slacktivism. As we move from awareness to mobilization, we bump up against the complexities of global problems-and liking Facebook pages only goes so far. Veteran activist Tyler Wigg-Stevenson identifies the practical and spiritual pitfalls that threaten much of today's cause-driven Christianity. He casts an alternate vision for doing good based on the liberating truth that only God can save the world. Wigg-Stevenson's own pilgrimage from causes to calling shows how to ground an enduring, kingdom-oriented activism in the stillness of vocation rather than in the anxiety of the world's brokenness. The world is not ours to save. And that's okay. Discover why.

About Tyler Wigg-Stevenson

Tyler Wigg-Stevenson is the founding director of the Two Futures Project, a movement of Christians for the global abolition of nuclear weapons. He also chairs the Global Task Force on Nuclear Weapons for the World Evangelical Alliance. His award-winning writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Sojourners, Relevant and Christianity Today, and he is the author of Brand Jesus.

Table of Contents


Part I:The Limits of Activism
1. The World Is Not Ours to Save: Thinking We Will Save the World
2. Don't Be a Hero: Getting Ahead of Our Calling
3. Broken beyond Our Repair: Getting the World Wrong
4. Fear God: Getting God Right
5. Take These Snakes: If Only...
Part II: A Deeper Calling
6. The Peaceable Kingdom: Moving Toward a Calling
7. Peace with God: Worship, Discipleship, Evangelism
8. Peace among the Nations: Justice, Industry, Nonaggression
9. Peace in Community: Dignity, Prosperity, Security
10. Living Out Our Callings
Study Guide
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author

Additional information

GOR010654869
9780830836574
0830836578
The World Is Not Ours to Save: Finding the Freedom to Do Good by Tyler Wigg-Stevenson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
InterVarsity Press
20130129
222
Winner of Christianity Today Book Award (Christianity & Culture) 2014
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