Summary of Rachel Held Evans & Jeff Chu's Wholehearted Faith

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Get the Summary of Rachel Held Evans & Jeff Chu's Wholehearted Faith in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: Rachel Held Evans is widely recognized for her theologically astute, profoundly honest, and beautifully personal books, which have guided, instructed, edified, and shaped Christians as they seek to live out a just and loving faith.

At the time of her tragic death in 2019, Rachel was working on a new book about wholeheartedness. With the help of her close friend and author Jeff Chu, that work-in-progress has been woven together with some of her other unpublished writings into a rich collection of essays that ask candid questions about the stories we’ve been told—and the stories we tell—about our faith, our selves, and our world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638157779

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Insights on Rachel Held Evans and Jeff Chu's Wholehearted Faith

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Sometimes, we simply need to stop and smell the flowers. When we stop and think about our lives, we realize that our troubles are not as bad as we thought.

#2

The Shema is a prayer that Jews recite every morning, which states: Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. It is a foundational principle of Judaism that all humans are equal in the eyes of the Lord.

#3

To love your neighbor as yourself, you must first learn to love yourself. To love yourself is not synonymous with narcissism or self-obsession. It means being honest about your positive and negative traits, and not diminishing or exaggerating them.

#4

To live and love like this is