BEST BOOK i've read in a LONG time!

Dominic Smart's book, "When We Get It Wrong: Peter, Christ, and our path through failure" is one of the BEST BOOKS i've ever read!  it is FANTASTIC!

upon first glance of the cover:

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i wasn't too sure if i'd actually like it. (NO OFFENSE to the dearest graphic designer who probably worked *so hard* on it). :(  the title/cover combination just struck me that this book was going to be one of those about our sin, crap, yuckiness, and how Jesus is good: the end. not really bridging the gap enough between our sin and the goodness of Jesus to let in the TRUTH and LIGHT that through Him, we can actually CHANGE.  some books/talks/sermons/etc. i've experienced throughout my life sometimes, i think don't mean to... but DO... leave out this important detail that **by no means** sugar-coats our own sin and need for a Savior......  but just kind of have left me, as a reader/listener, feeling like i want to hide from this very good, very holy, very perfect Lord (because i'm a failure).  

i was a little nervous this book was going to be like that, too.

i. was. so. WRONG!

dominic smart brings the TRUTH and GRACE of Jesus right to the heart of readers by looking at significant scenes from the life of Peter: Jesus' disciple/friend/apostle.

i will write more about this later (i really need to go work on stuff!!!!) BUT i will leave you with this tasty nugget that will HOPEFULLY make you HUNGRY to go out and get your own copy (YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!!!!!!!!!!) :)

"There has grown up a subject area called discipleship - it has seeded our bookshelves with a host of 'how to' manuals which tell us what we must do and how to do it best. It promises a harvest of effective and enjoyable Christianity. Now there is nothing about the Scriptural context for understanding what it is to be a Christian which suggests that practice is unnecessary, nor that good practice is somehow not to be aimed at, nor that misery is virtuous; but the great danger of putting what I do before what I am - of approaching the practicalities of Christian living apart from the context of Christian being - is that I succumb to the essentially legalistic pressure of the flesh."

wahhhhhh i could go on and on!!  i just LOVE those last three lines (that start with "the great danger...").  SO. RICH!!!!!  seriously this book is like Thanksgiving dinner and turtle-triple chocolate cheesecake and Tuscan lasagna and everything DELICIOUS and FILLING about life........ it is so. rich.  it will fill your heart to overflowing--- (but not make you sick, like if you ate huge portions of everything i just talked about, haha)----- but instead will turn your eyes upon Jesus---- you'll look full in His wonderful face!!  and you'll worship!! :)  GO GET IT! :)