Jump: Into a Life of Further and Higher

by Efrem Smith

Publisher:

David C Cook

, 2010

Overview

Jump is a powerful guide to becoming a vehicle of compassion, reconciliation, and transformation in our world.

Life is all about jumps. We jump from high school to college, school to the professional world, dating to marriage. Each leap launches us to new levels. Even though we can’t see what’s on the other side of the wall, our faith jumps are about trusting that God is there. We experience the liberation when we jump into the arms of our Savior, then into a church family, and then into a world desperately in need.

Efrem Smith presents fresh insights into how Christians can say yes to the jump that takes them deeper into a loving, devotional, intimate life with God.
 

Contents

Top Highlights

“An adult impala is hesitant to use its ability to jump if it is unable to see where it’s going to land. The inability to see the end of the jump somehow hinders the impala from something it is naturally able to do. I’m a pastor too, like Darrell, so let me put it this way: The inability to live by faith keeps the impala from doing what God created it to do, what it was born to do. It grows up to become an adult with the ability to jump into freedom, to live out its purpose, but it won’t because it doesn’t believe it can.” (source)

“We cannot truly be reconciled to each other without understanding the reality and depth to which we are reconciled to God through Jesus Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. We must have a holistic understanding of reconciliation so that it might point us toward intimacy with God as well as becoming an outer force of transformation that tears down walls of division, no matter what height, in our world.” (source)

“Evangelism today must be loving, gentle, patient, and in some cases very slow.” (source)

“‘Notice that even though the impala has the ability to jump thirteen feet high and thirty feet out, the African impalas are contained here at the zoo by a three-foot wall!’” (source)

“Our jumps should be based on God’s speaking to us; they should be jumps of obedience. Also these jumps ought to increase our dependence on and trust of God.” (source)

Product Details

• Title : Jump: Into a Life of Further and Higher
• Author: Smith, Efrem
• Publisher: David C Cook
• Publication Date: 2010
• ISBN: 9781434702531

About Efrem Smith

Efrem Smith is president and CEO of World Impact. As a preacher, motivational speaker and author, Smith is internationally recognized for his passion to see lasting life transformation, revitalized communities and further Kingdom advancement within churches. He also consults on issues of multi-ethnicity, leadership and community development for churches and educational institutions. Serving as founding pastor of The Sanctuary Covenant Church, a multi-ethnic church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Smith also co-founded and was president of The Sanctuary Community Development Corporation. He served as superintendent of the Pacific Southwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church, providing leadership to 160 churches within California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and Utah. An itinerant speaker and preacher with Kingdom Building Ministries and the Evangelical Covenant Church, he has been a keynote speaker for such events as Athletes in Action, Campus Crusade for Christ, Youth Specialties, Compassion International, Thrive and CHIC. He is the author of Raising up Young Heroes, The Hip Hop Church and The Post-Black and Post-White Church. Smith is a graduate of Saint John's University and Luther Theological Seminary. He is currently seeking his doctorate in Church Leadership from Bethel Seminar. He and his wife Donecia, along with their two children, live in the San Francisco Bay Area.