You Are Not Your Own
Belonging to God in an Inhuman World
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Narrated by:
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Adam Verner
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By:
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Alan Noble
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"You are your own, and you belong to yourself."
This is the fundamental assumption of modern life. And if we are our own, then it's up to us to forge our own identities and to make our lives significant. But while that may sound empowering, it turns out to be a crushing responsibility - one that never actually delivers on its promise of a free and fulfilled life, but instead leaves us burned out, depressed, anxious, and alone. This phenomenon is mapped out onto the very structures of our society, and helps explain our society's underlying disorder.
But the Christian gospel offers a strikingly different vision. As the Heidelberg Catechism puts it, "I am not my own, but belong with body and soul, both in life and in death, to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ." In You Are Not Your Own, Alan Noble explores how this simple truth reframes the way we understand ourselves, our families, our society, and God. Contrasting these two visions of life, he invites us past the sickness of contemporary life into a better understanding of who we are and to whom we belong.
©2021 Alan Noble (P)2021 eChristianWhat listeners say about You Are Not Your Own
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- Anonymous User
- 19-10-2021
Excellent work
This book helpfully and gently critiques a dominant cultural idol and calls the listener to consider the implications of the “autonomous self”. Thanks Alan
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- Kindle Customer
- 06-10-2022
Comforting words in a world too heavy to carry
Do you feel like a zoo animal, stalking endlessly back & forth in an exhibit designed to match your habitat? If you do, you’re not crazy; you’re understanding that the world we live in isn’t designed for true human flourishing - and no amount of technique, optimising or resignation can make it better.
You belong to yourself and only yourself, so this weight is only yours to carry.
But what if you weren’t, and what if you didn’t have to carry that burden?
Read on…
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