God Is Stranger: Foreword by Justin Welby - Couverture souple

Kandiah, Krish

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1473648904 ISBN 13 : 9781473648906

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2017

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

If God isn't constantly surprising us then something is amiss. He's always more faithful than we realise, more challenging than we understand, more mysterious than we'd like and closer than we think. Krish draws us into the Scripture and points us to the God who walks beside us and yet is infinitely beyond us. I highly recommend the adventure! (Andy Croft, Soul Survivor)

Krish Kandiah's work with refugees and vulnerable children is inspirational. He and his wife Miriam model their teaching on Christian hospitality by welcoming adopted and foster children into their home. We have much to learn from their example. (Nicky and Pippa Gumbel)

We think we know God but Kandiah wants us to come to see God as a stranger, someone we haven't got taped, and find our lives turned upside down as a result. (The Church of England Newspaper)

In his new book God is Stranger, Krish Kandiah turns the tables on what we think we know about God. (Inspire Magazine)

Kandiah challenges us to recognise that having met the God who is a stranger we should look out for God in the stranger... This is a book which made me think, which helped me see things a little differently, to link the things that I know in my head with the things that I feel in my heart. (Methodist Recorder)

[Krish Kandiah] shows us that God often shows up when and where we least expect him to, and brings us a powerful challenge. (Together Magazine)

The author's own commitment to Scripture and his personal engagement with the issues require us to listen with care... You must read this book and hear what God is saying to the churches in our day. (Evangelicals Now)

Drawing on personal experience, Kandiah asks searching questions about the appearance of God in lives. (Life & Work)

Utterly compelling (Together Magazine)

Beautifully written and profoundly challenging... you will be grateful for this book. (Preach Magazine)

Présentation de l'éditeur

So you think you know God?

Taking a fresh look at Bible passages he thought he knew inside out, Krish Kandiah was struck by the uncomfortable recognition that when God turns up he seems to be much more likely to startle or frighten us, even start a fight on a dark night, than to sit down for a cosy chat. This God seems like a stranger. The one certainty seems to be that he is not like us.

Wrestling with these Bible stories, Krish uncovers the truth of a God whose very unpredictability, his challenging strangeness, is the strongest indication of his real presence. We long for a tame God who will do just what we ask, and are disappointed when he doesn't turn up. The truth is, God could be right in front of us and we don't see him, because he's not who we think he is.

The greatest challenge of our faith is to accept and come to know this stranger God as he truly is, for only then when will we equipped to see him at work in the world around us and love the stranger God has put next to us - the neighbour who might be from anywhere in the world, of any religion, the downtrodden or our oppressor: all are in need of God's love and it is us that God has chosen us to share his love with them.

This is the strange truth of our faith - that it is only when we are ready to wrestle with God's strangeness to us that we will be able to see his kingdom advance among us.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1473648904
• ISBN 13: 9781473648906
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352