In this paperback accompaniment to John Ortberg's fully integrated DVD-based small group study series the best selling author, speaker and pastor leads you to toward a positive appreciation of your brokenness and God's role as project manager of your personal restoration.

This restoration starts with God's promise in Jeremiah 17:7-8 to make you, "Like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit."

First, the widely respected teacher and preacher helps get a realistic measure of your spiritual health - where you are now and where God, and you, wants you to be. Next, Menlo Church's senior pastor gives you detailed and practical exercises to help you live in the flow of the Spirit, escape and avoid the fear-filled real-world barriers of pain and sorrow, temptation and self-doubt to flourish as God intended - even in this dark and desperate world.

The 'Me You Want To Be' will help you move toward:

• deeper connection with God
• growing sense of joy
• honest recognition of your brokenness
• less fear, more trust
• growing sense of being 'rooted in love'
• deeper sense of purpose

'The Me I Want to Be' shows you how to graciously accept God's invitation to share in the process of building yourself the abundant and joy-filled life you were always meant to have.

John Ortberg is the author of many books on spiritual growth in the individual and in the whole Church, including God Is Closer Than You Think, If You Want To Walk On Water, You Have To Get Out Of The Boat, The Life You've Always Wanted and now Who Is This Man?