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"This book will revolutionize the way you look at your suffering."
Joni Eareckson Tada, Founder, Joni and Friends
Do we have the wrong map for the Christian life?
Life's inconveniences, disappointments, and trials can leave us confused, cynical, and eventually bitter. But the apostle Paul traces out the path of dying and rising with Jesus—what Paul Miller calls the "J-Curve"—as the normal Christian life.
The J-Curve maps the ups and downs of daily life onto the story of Jesus. It grounds our journeys not in some abstract idea but in union with Christ and his work of love. Understanding our lives in light of the J-Curve roots our hope, centers our love, and tethers our faith to Christ.
Contents
Illustrations
Part 1: Discovering the J-Curve
1. "I Will Never Do This Again": The J-Curve and How It Helps
2. "I Take Your Place": The Substitutionary Nature of Love
3. Marketing the Self: What We Do Instead of the J-Curve
4. Liberating the Self: The Foundation of the J-Curve
5. In Harvard: Union with Christ Comes Alive
6. In Sports or In Christ?: How Location Changes Everything
7. It's All about Who You Know: Knowing Jesus in the J-Curve
8. Missing Justification by Faith: The J-Curve without Justification
9. Missing the J-Curve: Justification by Faith without the J-Curve
Part 2: Dying with Jesus
10. Dying to Self: Understanding Different J-Curves
11. A Cascade of Love: Weaving J-Curves Together
12. Life at the Bottom of the J-Curve: Making Sense of Persistent Evil
13. Living in the Borderland: How to Thrive in a Broken World
Part 3: The Descent of Love
14. Love Loses Control: Discovering the Shape of Love
15. The Art of Disappearing for Love: How the Incarnation Defines Love
16. Recovering a Vision of the Good: The Wonder of the J-Curve
17. Celebrating Christ Bearers: Rediscovering Hidden Saints
18. The Hinge of the J-Curve: Understanding the Will
19. The Four Steps of Love: Re-enacting Jesus's Descent
20. The J-Curve Calms a Quarrel: Creating a Path to Reconciliation
Part 4: Rising with Jesus
21. Discovering the Power of Resurrection: What Makes the J Go Up?
22. Repersonalizing the Resurrection: Discovering the Forgotten Half of the J-Curve
23. Looking through a Resurrection Lens: The J-Curve Transforms Our Vision of Life
24. The Secret of an Irritation-Free Life: The J-Curve Cures Grumbling
25. Resurrection Realism: The J-Curve Protects Us from Cynicism
26. Delaying Resurrection for Love: Saying No to Good Desire
27. Becoming Human Again: The Emotional Life of the J-Curve
28. The Art of J-Curve Living: Dying and Rising in Twenty-Four Hours
29. Seeing the Big Picture: Multiyear Dying and Rising
Part 5: Forming a J-Curve Community
30. The Power of Weakness: How the J-Curve Defeats Tribalism
31. The Spirit at the Center: Learning Wisdom Down Low
32. Love Treads Softly: Entering the Complexity of Love
33. Leadership Goes Low: Re-enacting Jesus in Community
34. Keeping Jesus Pure: The J-Curve Divides the Community
35. Jesus: The Ultimate Party Crasher
36. The Beauty of a Jesus Community: Including the Distant Outsider
Conclusion
Afterword
Acknowledgments
General Index
Scripture Index
