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Wide Open Spaces: Beyond Paint-by-Number Christianity
by Jim Palmer
from Thomas Nelson

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• Divine Nobodies in Wide Open Spaces
  Are you struggling to find God in your religion? God is in relationship, not in religion. For a long time, I couldn't figure out why I wasn't "getting it"....I'd go to church every Sunday, led Bible studies and other study groups, knew all the Christian lingo...but felt like a fraud and felt like something was missing. Something definitely was. Jim Palmer found it and he writes about it in both "DivineNobodies" and "Wide Open Spaces". He's living in the questions of his life ("What if God isn't a belief... more info

• Knowing God in your own way
  This book, along with Jim Palmer's Divine Nobodies, delivered me from a year-long broken heart caused by my church. Thank God for people like Jim who share their story in hopes of helping others realize that God exists outside of organized religion. Since reading this book I have become more aware of God's unconditional love and his powerful presence in everything around me. From now on I too will be using the "freedom filter". It works!

• Recommended to people who are ready to color outside the lines of traditional faith
  Jim Palmer has had a fascinating spiritual journal. Though his resume includes working in pastoral ministry at Willow Creek Community Church and pioneering an emerging church in Nashville, Tennessee, Palmer has found his own faith grow wildly by stepping outside the confines of traditional religion and experiencing the fullness of God in everyday life. WIDE OPEN SPACES is the follow-up to his debut, DIVINE NOBODIES, and invites readers to look for a deeper spirituality beyond the status-quo. Palmer believes... more info

• Fed up with church?
  Palmer's former life as an executive pastor is a little bit fresh, making his outline of a new kind of orthopraxy both refreshingly freedom-focused and depressingly churchy in its expression. Still, Palmer is vulnerable (and cautious not to overstay his welcome) in sharing his changed perspective on Christ and Christ's message. The result is a challenge to orthodoxy that almost sings (especially his careful explication of American culture's sky-god). If you're fed up with traditional church, read this book.

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