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Does God have a specific plan for your life - or mine?
Can we really make sense of everything that happens to us?
In this bonfire of some of the most precious of all evangelical myths, Mark Woods asks whether a truly biblical faith really supports many supposed evangelical 'shibboleths', and thereby points us towards a faith that is deeper, more dangerous, and more fitting for adults.
Contents
Acknowledgments 9
Foreword 11
Chapter
1 God may not have a plan for your life, and that’s OK 13
2 God doesn’t heal everyone, and he doesn’t want to 27
3 Beginning at the beginning: Why we need to talk about origins 41
4 Evangelism is not about saving people from hell 59
5 Forgiveness is much harder than we think 77
6 Spiritual growth: How the church gets in the way 97
7 Prayer is about God, not about us 109
8 How good teaching is killing good preaching 123
9 Church and state: Why it doesn’t always have to be a battle 135