Doing Good Is Simple: Making a Difference Right Where You Are
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Doing Good Is Simple: Making a Difference Right Where You Are

Doing Good Is Simple: Making a Difference Right Where You Are

Overview

What if you could become a powerful force for good in the world without moving overseas, burdening your overwhelmed family, or giving up the comforts of modern life?

Chris Marlow, founder of the global advocacy organization Help One Now, once felt paralyzed in the face of global problems. They seemed too numerous, too complicated, too big—and after all, how much can one person really do? But a wake-up call in Zimbabwe and a closer study of Scripture soon showed Chris that maybe Christians are overcomplicating how to do act justly in a broken world. Maybe all God is calling us to do is set up a lemonade stand for a good cause.

Doing Good is Simple is your practical guide to world change wherever you are. Through Chris’ own journey of an ordinary person seeking God’s good in the world, this book will:

  • Empower you to make a difference where you are
  • Redefine good according to God’s metrics of small, simple things with great love
  • Bring global concepts down to earth for you to find your place in the area where God is calling you
  • Disband the top myths we tell ourselves when it comes to world change and why we aren’t “enough”
  • Free you from your first world guilt complex that drags you down
  • Provide practical, accessible guidelines for getting started today

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780310343578
Publisher: Zondervan
Publication date: 08/02/2016
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 4.90(w) x 7.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Chris Marlow is the founder of Help One Now, an organization that mobilizes ordinary people to fight poverty by empowering indigenous leaders to care for the world’s most vulnerable children. Help One Now began in 2009 with a $1,000 investment and has since gathered a tribe who have helped build schools, rescue homes, and medical clinics through simple acts like garage sales, community concerts, and lemonade stands.

Chris is a sought-after speaker at churches and conferences such as Tedx, Plywood People, Idea Camp, Together for Adoption, and The White House’s gathering of Innovators Doing Good. Chris lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, two daughters, and a German Shepherd pup. Connect with him online at www.chrismarlow.me.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Foreword Jen Hatmaker 13

Introduction: Good Grief 17

1 Lemonade with a Purpose: How to Start Small Wherever You Are 27

2 Ordinary Is the New Radical: Because Jesus Doesn't Leave Justice to the Professionals 45

3 Despite Your Fears and Failures: Believing You Are Good Enough Because God Is Good 67

4 You've Got the Goods: The Incredible Truth That You Are Already Equipped 87

5 Not Just Good on Paper: Good Is People, Not Projects 107

6 Good and Plenty: Everyone Has Something to Give 133

7 All Great Things Start Small: How to Stage a Movement 159

8 Better Together: How to Find a Good Organization and Partner Together 187

Conclusion: As Good as It Gets 205

Acknowledgments 215

Notes 219

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