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The Good News of Our Limits: Find Greater Peace, Joy, and Effectiveness through God’s Gift of Inadequacy

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, 2022
ISBN: 9780310114451
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Become More Effective by Embracing Your Inability

Many of us are tired, stressed, and overworked. We think that following God will bring peace, but instead find ourselves anxious. We expect a life of joy, but end up feeling stressed, living under the heavy load of new expectations. It’s a spiritual and emotional rollercoaster.

We search for solutions using optimization techniques, attempting to fit more and more into our already full days. We try to craft efficiently maximized lives, but these methods always fail, not because they are ill-intentioned, but because they do not go far enough. They fail to understand how God made us--as people with inherent limitations--and they fail to accept that as good.

In The Good News of Our Limits, professor and longtime ministry leader Sean McGever reveals the wonderful news that we cannot do, be, or know all of the things that others expect of us--and that we often expect from ourselves. Nor should we. As it turns out, these expectations are not God’s expectations. The freeing truth is that God created us with limitations, and he did it for a reason. God is the only all-powerful, all-present, and all-knowing person, and we are not. We can only know and do some things, and we can only be in one place at a time. And that is enough. Accepting this truth frees us to find greater peace and joy, and somewhat surprisingly, greater effectiveness in life.

The Good News of Our Limits helps readers answer questions like: What are our God-given human limits? How do I find peace when I can’t control the circumstances, tragedies, and difficulties that surround my life? How do I choose what is best when my time, focus, and abilities are limited? How many people can I realistically know personally? What can I do to deepen key relationships when I feel relationally maxed-out? How do I navigate all the information that comes my way each day?

Through personal stories and fascinating cultural insights, The Good News of Our Limits calls readers to embrace the blessedness of their limitations and adopt a few key practices to better balance their lives. Biblical and practical, it points to a better way forward for us all.

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  • Reveals the good news that we cannot do, be, or know everything that others and we ourselves expect
  • Helps readers accept their God-given limits as a path to greater peace and joy
  • Calls readers to embrace the blessedness of their limitations
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: No Limits?
  • Chapter 2: Humans Are like God?
  • Chapter 3: Humans Are unlike God
  • Chapter 4: The First Limit: Faithful Practices
  • Chapter 5: The Second Limit: Circles of Friends
  • Chapter 6: The Third Limit: Information
  • Chapter 7: Limited but Not Alone: God’s Presence
  • Chapter 8: Limited but Not Alone: The Church
  • Chapter 9: Staying in Our Own Lane
  • Notes
God is God. We are not. He is limitless. We are limited. On the surface, this sounds depressing. But as this book makes clear, this truth is wonderfully freeing as it eradicates the life-sucking pressure to be everything to everyone, everywhere. I’m so glad Sean wrote this book!

—Jordan Raynor, national bestselling author of Redeeming Your Time, Master of One, and Called to Create

Sean McGever has been a lifelong bearer of good news. Here, he has done it again, this time proclaiming a refreshing declaration of freedom: “It’s okay to be a human being!” Dietrich Bonhoeffer reminded us that we humans will always be limited in our understanding because we are creations. McGever has developed this idea and expanded it by encouraging us that part of being “beautifully and wonderfully made” (Ps. 139) by the Creator includes our limits. They are a part of the design, not a flaw. “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free” (Gal. 5:1).

—Scott Lisea, campus pastor at Westmont College

McGever digs into the “hustle-pause spectrum” of our lives, emphasizing the reality of human limitation. According to McGever, our limitations do not pose a threat to kingdom work but are rather a reminder that God is King and we are his image bearers. I found much-needed purpose and relief in reading this book.

—Rachel Joy Welcher, editor at Fathom magazine and author of Talking Back to Purity Culture

About Sean McGever

Sean McGever (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is area director for Paradise Valley Arizona Young Life and adjunct faculty at Grand Canyon University. He trains Young Life staff and volunteers internationally.

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