Fully Alive: A Biblical Vision of Gender That Frees Men and Women to Live Beyond Stereotypes

by Dr. Larry Crabb

Overview

What makes a man masculine? A woman feminine? Did God design the two genders so differently? If so, why? The answers to these questions will free women and men to gladly embrace all that it means to be fully alive as gendered bearers of God's image who can profoundly impact others for good by the way they relate.

Author and psychologist Dr. Larry Crabb presents a biblically grounded understanding of gender uniqueness. His illustration of a bridge of connection shows how the two genders can relationally come together in God-revealing harmony as they celebrate their God-designed uniqueness. Readers will discover that God created male and female to relate in gender-specific ways to make a difference in others by displaying God's relational character. Crabb clearly shows men and women what it means to live fully alive as feminine women and masculine men.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441242631
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/01/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Dr. Larry Crabb is a well-known Christian psychologist, conference and seminar speaker, Bible teacher, and author of more than twenty-five books--including When God's Ways Make No Sense and two Gold Medallion award-winners, Inside Out and Understanding People. He is also the founder/director of NewWay Ministries and cofounder of his legacy ministry, Larger Story. In addition to various other speaking and teaching opportunities, Crabb offers a week-long School of Spiritual Direction held each year at The Cove and the Glen Eyrie in Colorado. He currently is scholar-in-residence at Colorado Christian University. Larry and his wife of fifty years, Rachael, reside near Charlotte, North Carolina. For more information, visit LargerStory.com or NewWayMinistries.org.

Table of Contents

Prologue 11

Acknowledgments 17

Introduction 19

Part I Searching for Our Gendered Center: Where Divine Life Lives

1 Sex and Gender 23

2 Words Have Meaning 30

3 In the Beginning: Gender in the Garden of Eden 36

4 What Makes a Woman Feminine? 41

5 Submission: A Dirty Word? 48

6 What Submission Really Means 55

7 What Makes a Man Masculine? 65

8 Relational Masculinity 72

Part II Discovering Our Core Terror: The Gender-Related Fear That Immobilizes

9 We Have Nothing to Fear Except… 81

10 The Core Terror of a Woman: An Invitation with No Response 90

11 What Fear Can Do: Four Personas That Hide Women 96

12 The Core Terror of a Man: Weightlessness 104

13 Recognizing the Terror in a Man 110

14 What Fear Can Do: A Glimpse into Three Weightless Men 116

15 A Fourth Man: Males Who Are Becoming Masculine 124

Part III Identifying Our Relational Sin: The Opportunity for Life-Releasing Brokenness

16 Relational Sin: Our Tongue-The Restless Assassin 131

17 There Is a Center: Our Mistake Is Indifference to Its Existence 141

18 Search for Your Center 147

19 Preparing to Live Fully Alive: Catch the Vision and Count the Cost 152

Part IV Becoming Fully Alive: The Slowly Transforming Process

20 The Journey Begins: From Female to Feminine, from Male to Masculine 161

21 Let the Slow Race Begin 167

22 From Conception to Conversion: Shaped Foolishness 173

23 New Life 182

24 Life Emerges: When the Road Narrows 190

25 Your Ears Shall Hear 200

26 Walking the Narrow Road: The Opportunity of Defeat 206

27 Becoming Masculine Men and Feminine Women 212

Epilogue: A Final Word to Women and Men 217

Afterword Rachael Crabb 221