{"title":"Books by Sean McGever","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781514004159","title":"Ownership","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Gospel Coalition Book Awards Award of Distinction-History and Biography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMen of their time?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitefield were the three most prominent early evangelicals-and all three were deeply compromised on the issue of slavery. Edwards and Whitefield both kept slaves themselves, and Wesley failed to speak out against slavery until near the end of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOwnership\u003c\/i\u003e, Sean McGever tells the true story of these men's relationships to slavery: a story that has too often been passed over or buried in scholarly literature. Laying out the dominant attitudes among Christians toward slavery at the time, McGever sets these \"men of their times\" in their own context, inviting us to learn how these shapers of American evangelicalism contributed to the tragic history of racism in America. He also explores how Christians finally began to recognize that slavery, which they'd excused for most of Christian history, is actually wrong. It's a story that white evangelicals must wrestle with today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOwnership\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a book of history. 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We expect a life of joy, but end up feeling stressed, living under the heavy load of new expectations. It's a spiritual and emotional rollercoaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe search for solutions using optimization techniques, attempting to fit more and more into our already full days. We try to craft efficiently maximized lives, but these methods always fail, not because they are ill-intentioned, but because they do not go far enough. They fail to understand how God made us--as people with inherent limitations--and they fail to accept that as \u003cem\u003egood\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Good News of Our Limits\u003c\/em\u003e, professor and longtime ministry leader Sean McGever reveals the wonderful news that we cannot do, be, or know all of the things that others expect of us--and that we often expect from ourselves. Nor should we. As it turns out, these expectations are not God's expectations. The freeing truth is that God created us with limitations, and he did it for a reason. God is the only all-powerful, all-present, and all-knowing person, and we are not. We can only know and do some things, and we can only be in one place at a time. And that is enough. Accepting this truth frees us to find greater peace and joy, and somewhat surprisingly, greater effectiveness in life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Good News of Our Limits\u003c\/em\u003e helps readers answer questions like:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat are our God-given human limits?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow do I find peace when I can't control the circumstances, tragedies, and difficulties that surround my life?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow do I choose what is best when my time, focus, and abilities are limited?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow many people can I realistically know personally?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat can I do to deepen key relationships when I feel relationally maxed-out?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow do I navigate all the information that comes my way each day?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough personal stories and fascinating cultural insights, \u003cem\u003eThe Good News of Our Limits\u003c\/em\u003e calls readers to embrace the blessedness of their limitations and adopt a few key practices to better balance their lives. 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