Outreach Magazine's 2021 Resource of the Year in the Church Category
Christianity tends to focus on beliefs and choices as the keys for personal growth. But biblical evidence and modern brain science tell a different story.
Combining faith with the latest developments in neuroscience and psychology, Renovated offers a groundbreaking and refreshing perspective of how our attachment to God impacts our minds and hearts. You'll find that our spiritual growth is about more than just what we believe--it's about who we love.
Drawing from conversations he had with Dallas Willard shortly before Dallas's death, Jim Wilder shows how we can train our brains to relate to God. Transformative and encouraging, this book offers practical insight for deepening your relationship with God through the wondrous brain and soul that He has given you.
"Elegant, clear and bountiful in hope . . . if transformation for yourself and your community is what you seek, I can think of no better place to start." --Curt Thompson, author of Anatomy of the Soul
"Jim Wilder offers genuine hope. He uniquely combines the truth of Scripture with the truth in developing brain science to give us a path of renewal and restoration." --Dudley Hall, president of Kerygma Ventures
"A breakthrough on so many levels. Renovated is a must-read for everyone who is serious about discipling people and seeing life transformation." --Bob Roberts, pastor and founder of GlocalNet
Jim Wilder offers a genuine hope in Renovated. He uniquely combines the truth of Scripture with the truth in developing brain science to give us a path of renewal and restoration.--Dudley Hall, president of Kerygma Ventures
Now this is a rich read! I've long been convinced the healing of our humanity comes through attachment to God. Jim shows you how.--John Eldredge, New York Times bestselling author
Just when I thought I had extracted all that Dallas Willard had for me, Jim Wilder integrates something fresh from neuroscience into a revised model of transformation. Read this book one page at a time, or you will miss what it has for you and the people you lead.--Randy Frazee, pastor; coauthor of The Renovation of the Heart student edition
Building on a classic understanding of the spiritual formation of the whole person with the latest relational discoveries in neuroscience, it is easy to see that this is what we are created for--and what joy the world so desperately needs to see in the lives of Jesus' apprentices. A practical primer for disciples who long for a richer life with God and others.--Amy Pierson, founder of Burning Heart Workshops; former executive director of the Spiritual Formation Alliance
Transformation occurs as we are renovated from the inside out, formed and reformed emotionally and relationally, changed and developed most powerfully in the context of the community of Christ. It all begins with love for God, from which our characters are healed and redirected toward the active presence of God. How kind of Jim and Dallas (and Jane), for guiding us thoughtfully and graciously toward a radical maturity based in healthy attachment love.--Stephen A. Macchia, founder and president of Leadership Transformations, Inc.
For those of us who consider ourselves to be the most hopeless of cases in spiritual formation, our backs against the ropes, this book rekindles confidence that even spiritual-transformation underdogs have a puncher's chance of becoming more like Christ.--James Henderson, cofounder of Ashrei Center for Spiritual Formation, Mexico City
Dr. Jim Wilder has spent most of his adult life researching, praying about, observing, field-testing, pondering, and validating how God has designed people to mature and Christ followers to be conformed to the image of Jesus. His research and understanding are truly groundbreaking and provide vital missing pieces regarding how so much of Western Christianity has lost its relational foundation and focus. Renovated is his most important book to date.--Rev. Michael Sullivant, CEO of Life Model Works
NavPress Publishing Group
Pub Date: April 21, 2020
ISBN: 9781641581677
0.6" H x 9.0" L x 6.1" W
240 pages
Paperback