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Overview
Displays the amazing power of generosity to transform people and communities When LaSalle Street Church in Chicago received an unexpected windfall, its leaders made the wild, counterintuitive decision to give it away. Each church member received a check for $500 with the instruction to go out and do good in God's world. In Love Let Go readers witness how a church community was transformed by the startling truth that money can buy happiness—when we give it away. Laura Sumner Truax and Amalya Campbell show how this radical generosity shaped their community, exploring the reverberating impact of each act of generosity, and ultimately revealing how LaSalle's faith-filled risk snowballed into a movement beyond itself. Throughout the book Truax and Campbell probe the connection of human flourishing to generosity and offer tools to help us reclaim our giver identities and live generously—to love and let go.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780802874474 |
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Publisher: | Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company |
Publication date: | 03/28/2017 |
Pages: | 215 |
Product dimensions: | 5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Laura Sumner Truax is senior pastor at LaSalle Street Church in downtown Chicago, a teaching pastor at the University of Chicago, and the author of Undone: When Coming Apart Puts You Back Together. She frequently speaks around the country on the topics of faith and justice—and generosity.Amalya Campbell is a marketing consultant in Wilmette, Illinois, with an MBA from Harvard Business School. She has led stewardship classes at LaSalle Street Church for more than a dozen years.
Table of Contents
Foreword Richard Stearns ix
I Our Generous Nature
1 Wired to Be Givers 3
2 The Plane of Generosity 21
3 Abundance, Not Scarcity 39
II Stumbling Toward Generosity
4 Identity Intact 61
5 Transactions and Interactions 77
6 The Saturation Point 95
III The Generous Life
7 Listening Inside Out 115
8 Listening Outside In 135
9 Reframing Thankfulness 153
10 Letting Love Go 167
Afterword 183
Questions for Reflection and Discussion 185
For Further Reading 196
Notes 198
Acknowledgments 202
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