{"product_id":"how-odd-of-god-chosen-for-the-curious-vocation-of-preaching-paperback","title":"How Odd of God: Chosen for the Curious Vocation of Preaching - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam H. Willimon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eElection\u003c\/i\u003e is a strange word when used in theology. It brings to mind old debates about what God might or might not have done before the foundation of the world. But viewed apart from that historical baggage, the word \u003ci\u003eelection\u003c\/i\u003e is about a central gospel idea: that in Jesus not only does God choose to be God for us but chooses us to be \u003ci\u003efor God\u003c\/i\u003e. The calling of the disciples in the gospels is a story of election, of how God chooses to transform the world by choosing us to be messengers and agents of that transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo it is, says William Willimon, that election becomes not just the content of our preaching but the means as well. God chooses preachers. How unlikelyhow oddis it that God should entrust the proclamation of the gospel to, well, us? This unpredictable, electing God reaches out to save the world and then leaves it in the hands of preachers to get the word out? Through us, through our stammering tongues and faltering hearts, the preached word becomes the Word of God. If you wonder why you drag yourself into the pulpit every Sunday, if you worry that your sermons aren't reaching past the front pew, then read this book and be encouraged. God chooses; God chooses preachers; God chooses you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 206\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 09, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756842647840,"sku":"9780664259747","price":30.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a76906398efb39ca60151a1add222ed3.webp?v=1780087799","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/how-odd-of-god-chosen-for-the-curious-vocation-of-preaching-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}