Loving God: The Cost of Being a Christian

by Charles W. Colson, Eric Metaxas (Foreword by)

Overview

Jesus tells us that the greatest commandment is to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” But how many of us know what this looks like in daily life? Does loving God mean going to church, tithing, having regular prayer times? Is it a feeling in our hearts?

A few years after Chuck Colson became a Christian, he realized that the more he learned about God’s love for him, the more he wanted to know how to love God. This book is the masterpiece Colson wrote after searching Scripture, history, and his own difficult experiences to answer his deepest question. He discovered that loving God is obeying God—rarely easy, sometimes inconvenient, often painful, and entirely satisfying. When we love God, we know the pleasure of living out our true calling.

Billy Graham considers Loving God “one of the most spiritually satisfying books I have ever read.” Joni Eareckson Tada refers to it as “the complete volume on Christian living.” With fascinating stories and engaging theological insights, Loving God has been bringing people closer to Jesus for over thirty years. In this hour of opportunity for the church and for our own spiritual lives, Loving God will inspire you to love God with your whole being. It’s what you were created to do.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780310352624
Publisher:	Zondervan
Publication date:	03/13/2018
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	140,160
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Chuck Colson was a popular and widely known author, speaker, and radio commentator. A former presidential aide to Richard Nixon and founder of the international ministry Prison Fellowship, he wrote several books that have shaped Christian thinking on a variety of subjects, including Born Again, Loving God, How Now Shall We Live?, The Good Life, and The Faith. His radio broadcast, Break Point, at one point aired to two million listeners. Chuck Colson donated all of his royalties, awards, and speaking fees to Prison Fellowship Ministries.

Table of Contents

Foreword Eric Metaxas 13

Preface 17

How It All Began: An Introduction 23

Obedience

1 Prologue: Paradox 31

2 A Russian Doctor 37

3 Faith and Obedience 46

The Word of God

4 Take Up and Read 57

5 Just Another Book? 68

6 Watergate and the Resurrection 74

7 Believing God 86

Sin and Repentance

8 A Christian Gangster? 97

9 Whatever Became of Sin? 111

10 It Is in Us 117

11 Remember Me 125

12 We Were There 139

The Hunger for Holiness

13 Be Holy Because I Am Holy 147

14 The Everyday Business of Holiness 153

15 And His Righteousness 164

16 Contra Mundum 171

17 The Radical Christian 193

The Holy Nation

18 The Holy Nation 205

19 Shared Suffering 215

20 The Church on the Front Lines 223

21 This Is My Body 231

Loving God

22 Life and Death 243

In the Arena: An Allegory 253

Epilogue: Where Are They Now? 288

With Gratitude 291

Special Acknowledgments 295

Notes 297

Study Guide 305

Introduction 307

Study Guide 311