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God is Stranger

What Happens When God Turns Up? [Paperback]

by Krish Kandiah

Challenging the inherited assumptions that have been held tight for centuries, God is Stranger pulls the rug on what you thought you knew of God.

  • For anyone who wants their faith to be shaken into meaningful action

  • Do you dare to change how you see God, and how life can't stay the same afterwards?

  • Inspired into serving God in the world, God is Stranger is a doorway to an active faith

  • Author

    Krish Kandiah

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Hodder & Stoughton

  • Published

    April 2017

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Shortlisted for the Michael Ramsey prize 2019.

Looking to change your faith for the better? God is Stranger is a book that will do just that. It is a book that is a call to action, a challenge to your faith, and a revolutionary upheaval of every assumption you ever held about God: all routed in one, uncompromising question:

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.

Foreword by Justin Welby

Introduction

1. Adam and the Stranger

The God who turns up only to drive us away

2. Abraham and the Stranger

The God who turns up out of the blue

3. Jacob and the Stranger

The God who turns up to pick a fight

4. Gideon and the Stranger

The God who turns up way too later

5. Naomi and the Stranger

The God who doesn't turn up at all

6. David and the Stranger

The God who used to turn up

7. Isiah and the Stranger

The god who turns life upside down

8. Ezekiel and the Stranger

The God who turns up the volume

9. Mary and the Stranger

The God who turns up in all the wrong places

10. You and the Stranger

The God who turns up the heat

11. Jesus and the Stranger

The God who turns up as good as dead

12. Cleopas and the Stranger

The God who turns up in the end

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

Specification

  • Author

    Krish Kandiah

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Hodder & Stoughton

  • Published

    April 2017

  • Weight

    460g

  • Page Count

    256

  • Dimensions

    156 x 234 x 27 mm

  • ISBN

    9781473648906

  • ISBN-10

    1473648904

  • Eden Code

    4456127

More Information

  • Author/Creator: Krish Kandiah

  • ISBN: 9781473648906

  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

  • Release Date: April 2017

  • Weight: 460g

  • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 27 mm

  • Eden Code: 4456127


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