__10 Things You Don't Have to Do to Be Close to God__   
Like a succession of failed diet regimens, the much-touted techniques that are supposed to bring us closer to God "in our hearts" can instead make us feel anxious, frustrated, and overwhelmed.  
  
Phillip Cary explains that discipleship is a gradual, long-term process that comes through the gospel experienced in Christian community, not a to-do list designed to help us live the Christian life "right." He covers ten things we don't have to do to be close to God, skillfully unpacking the riches of traditional Christian spirituality. The expanded edition includes a new afterword.  
  
"Yes! No! Whoa! There are so many terrific, alarming, insightful zingers in this book that I agreed, disagreed, and, most of all, had to think about something on every page. Graceful and liberating, it is a word of wisdom and hope that just might convince anxious Christians that the gospel really is better news than we've yet imagined."  
--__Andy Crouch__, musician, public speaker, and author of The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place "This is, quite frankly, one of the best books I've read on the spiritual life over the past twenty-five years. I heartily recommend it."  
--__Christopher A. Hall__, president, Renovaré  
  
"Addressed to shepherds and their flocks, Good News for Anxious Christians features the admonishing, teaching, and comforting voice of a Christ-haunted philosophy professor. . . . The gospel, Cary argues, gives us permission to ignore anxiety-producing techniques because Christ is enough, period."  
--__Christopher Benson__, Christianity Today (5-star review)  
  
"Cary liberates persons enthralled by a god of spiritual techniques and practical sermons. . . . This is medicine for ministry."  
--Christian Century   
"Tremendously rich and thoughtful and wonderfully written. . . . This is solid pastoral theology, inviting deeper and more mature thinking about the slogans and clichés we too often hear."  
--__Byron Borger__, heartsandmindsbooks.com

__Phillip Cary__ (PhD, Yale University) is scholar-in-residence at the Templeton Honors College and professor of philosophy at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He serves as editor-in-chief of Pro Ecclesia and has written numerous books, including Jonah in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible series and three critically acclaimed volumes on the life and thought of Augustine.

A talented teacher unpacks the riches of traditional Christian spirituality for Christians burdened by the guilt and anxiety of introspective, in-my-heart spiritual techniques. Phillip Cary explains that knowing God is a gradual, long-term process that comes through the gospel experienced in Christian community. The first edition has sold over 17,000 copies. The expanded edition includes a new afterword that offers further insights since the first edition was published over ten years ago.

A talented teacher unpacks the riches of traditional Christian spirituality for Christians burdened by the guilt and anxiety of introspective, in-my-heart spiritual techniques. Now expanded with a new afterword.

__Contents__ Introduction: Why Trying to Be Christian Makes Us Anxious  
1. Why You Don't Have to Hear God's Voice in Your Heart  
Or, How God Really Speaks Today 2. Why You Don't Have to Believe Your Intuitions Are the Holy Spirit  
Or, How the Spirit Shapes Our Hearts 3. Why You Don't Have to "Let God Take Control"  
Or, How Obedience Is for Responsible Adults 4. Why You Don't Have to "Find God's Will for Your Life"  
Or, How Faith Seeks Wisdom 5. Why You Don't Have to Be Sure You Have the Right Motivations  
Or, How Love Seeks the Good 6. Why You Don't Have to Worry about Splitting Head from Heart  
Or, How Thinking Welcomes Feeling 7. Why You Don't Have to Keep Getting Transformed All the Time  
Or, How Virtues Make a Lasting Change in Us 8. Why You Don't Always Have to Experience Joy  
Or, How God Vindicates the Afflicted 9. Why "Applying It to Your Life" Is Boring  
Or, How the Gospel Is Beautiful 10. Why Basing Faith on Experience Leads to a Post-Christian Future  
Or, How Christian Faith Needs Christian Teaching Conclusion: How the Gospel of Christ Is Good for Us  
Afterword to the Second Edition

Cary, Phillip

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\["Feeling trapped by anxiety?","Discover 10 ways that there is hope for you","You'll gain practices tailored to being a believer with anxiety"\]

Introduction: Why Trying to Be Christian Makes Us Anxious

1\. Why You Don't Have to Hear God's Voice in Your Heart

Or, How God Really Speaks Today

2\. Why You Don't Have to Believe Your Intuitions Are the Holy Spirit

Or, How the Spirit Shapes Our Hearts

3\. Why You Don't Have to "Let God Take Control"

Or, How Obedience Is for Responsible Adults

4\. Why You Don't Have to "Find God's Will for Your Life"

Or, How Faith Seeks Wisdom

5\. Why You Don't Have to Be Sure You Have the Right Motivations

Or, How Love Seeks the Good

6\. Why You Don't Have to Worry about Splitting Head from Heart

Or, How Thinking Welcomes Feeling

7\. Why You Don't Have to Keep Getting Transformed All the Time

Or, How Virtues Make a Lasting Change in Us

8\. Why You Don't Always Have to Experience Joy

Or, How God Vindicates the Afflicted

9\. Why "Applying It to Your Life" Is Boring

Or, How the Gospel Is Beautiful

10\. Why Basing Faith on Experience Leads to a Post-Christian Future

Or, How Christian Faith Needs Christian Teaching

Conclusion: How the Gospel of Christ Is Good for Us

Afterword to the Second Edition

When suffering from anxiety, it can sometimes feel like there is no hope. Discover 10 practices that offer hope in dark times in this updated edition of Good News for Anxious Christians.

Good News for Anxious Christians, expanded ed.

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