When We Get It Wrong: Peter, Christ and Our Path through Failure
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, 2019
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Overview
Failure is part of life. Even (and maybe especially) as Christians, we mess up, we get it wrong, we feel like we have let God down. Peter, one of Jesus’ disciples and closest friends, knew how this felt. He got it wrong, but God still used him powerfully to spread the gospel. We see how God brought Peter from failure to fruitfulness, and we can hope that he will do the same for us.
- Explores how to deal with failure
- Follows Peter’s journey with Christ
- Focuses on the nature of discipleship
- Discipleship in Christ
- The Disciple’s call
- The Disciple’s false security
- The Disciple’s failure
- The Disciple’s path back
- The Disciple re-calibrated
- Appendix: New Testament references for being ‘in Christ’
Many books on discipleship are little more than ‘how to’ manuals that are seriously cut off from biblical theology. This is not one of them. Dominic Smart’s highly readable volume goes after the basics. And the basics, his readers will discover, not only enable serious Christians to think about discipleship in a biblically faithful way, but focus wonderful attention on Jesus Christ himself. This will start us off on the right foot, and contribute to a lifetime of discovering what it means to confess Jesus as Lord.
—D. A. Carson, Research Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Dominic Smart breathes some fresh air into our Christian discipleship. Here Christ himself is at the centre and grace is the first item on the agenda. When We Get it Wrong helps us grasp why the gentleness and ruthless commitment of Christ’s love belong together. Just the book we need to strip bare the soul and recalibrate our Christian lives.
—Sinclair B. Ferguson, Minister, St George’s-Tron Church, Glasgow
Just when I thought I’d read all the angles on discipleship, along comes Dominic Smart with a fresh approach.This book rocked me back on my heels, brought me down to my knees and set me up on my feet to love and follow Christ with fresh understanding and renewed zeal. Only read if you’re prepared to be challenged and changed
—Alistair Begg, Senior Minister, Parkside Community Church, Ohio
- Title: When We Get It Wrong: Peter, Christ and Our Path through Failure
- Author: Dominic Smart
- Publisher: Christian Focus
- Publication Date: 2019
- Pages: 112
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Topic: Discipleship