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One of the perks of working with InterVarsity is InterVarsity Press (IVP). Every year, IVP publishes between 75 to 100 books, ranging anywhere from academic topics to personal Christian living. Over the years, I have been mentored by many authors—most of whom I will probably never meet. I am going to try something new on this blog.
Periodically, I will host a [tag]book giveaway[/tag] (free to you, including free shipping). It will be a simple “contest”, where I will ask a question along the lines of the book’s theme or topic and solicit responses.
If you would like to win the [tag]free book[/tag], all you have to do is respond to my post on your blog (if you have one) or in a comment response (if you do not have a blog). If there are multiple responses, I will be the judge of the winner.
The first giveaway will be Getting Your Feet Dirty by Don Everts (IVP, 2007).
| This book functions as a sort of sequel to Jesus with Dirty Feet. In the first book, Everts draws a picture of Jesus that many people seem to forget—not one of an inaccessible, uncaring Jesus, but one where Jesus engages with people, calling them to a life greater than one for which they had settled.
In this second book, we walk alongside Jesus, recognizing that God calls us not to be passive worshipers sitting on pews on Sunday mornings, but one where God calls us to follow him as witnesses that become part of the movement of God in a dying and broken world. |
Instructions for giveaway:
- Write on your blog (if you have one) or respond in a comment (if you don’t have a blog): “What is one way that [tag]following Jesus[/tag] has been messy for you? (i.e. It has been more than just sitting in Church on Sunday mornings)”
- Link back to this post with the anchor text, following Jesus. For example, you could write something like, “In response to the book giveaway at ServingBread.net, I am answering the question, ‘What is one way that following Jesus has been messy for me?’”
(Linking back with anchor text means that you attach an html code back to this post with the words ‘following Jesus’. So when people click following Jesus, they come to this post)
- If you don’t want the giveaway, or someone else won it, I would still love for people to post about how their feet have gotten dirty following Jesus.
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Hi Eddie
it’s Danielle.
One of my most beautiful dirty moments with Jesus was during LAUP…one day as I walked down the street on the way home from COA I passed a woman slumped in a corner next to our church building. One eye was swollen shut, bruised, and bleeding from a cut. She curled up around the garbage bags of her possessions, and had a rag draped over her head to block the sun. I went upstairs, warmed up our leftover pasta, grabbed a cold pack, and headed back downstairs. She was coherent, but pretty ashamed of her circumstance…she wouldn’t even tell me her name because she was so ashamed. I talked with her and prayed for her, and that seemed to make her joyful, but sitting there, pretzel-legged, on the cement of the sidewalk, flies hovering all around, abiding in Jesus’ love for this woman, I wanted with all my being to take her home with me. I told myself to remember what it felt like to sit with this woman, to see her eye black, swollen, and bleeding, to watch her dig into the pasta without the fork I gave her because so hungry… the degradation of this human life was so painful to watch, and it was one of the clearest moments of understanding the wretched dichotomies of this world. Every desire I had to use “my” money for myself dissipated, and for a moment I felt “delivered from the insanity of selfishness” (from a book called Prayer). I want to live as close to that feeling as possible for the rest of my life, and that means living with and loving the poor.
Oh and Eddie…this summer I’m going to Haiti to start an orphanage…I’m looking forward to some more dirt
Thanks for your cool story Danielle! You win the book!
PS It would be cool to hear more stories from others… For those of you who like being tagged, consider yourselves tagged
Hey,
I’m Don’s wife. Do I win a free book!
wendy