Me Too: Experience the God Who Understands

by Jon Weece

Overview

Your life is filled with pressure and pain and heartache and disappointment. So was His.

If you've ever tried to pick up the shattered pieces of your life and put them back together again without help, you know it's an impossible task. When you lose your job, when divorce divides your family, when a loved one commits suicide, or when cancer claims a friend, it's easy to lose perspective and abandon hope.

According to Jon Weece, Christianity does not require you to smile through your pain, much less praise God for tormenting you. God doesn't enjoy your suffering. But he does understand it--and he knows exactly how to fix it.

That's what Me Too is all about: A God who turned the ugliness of the cross into a spectacle of eternal beauty. An all-powerful Lord who will do the same with the pain of this world. An eternal Father who specializes in wiping away tears and putting you back together again. If you'll allow him.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781400206926
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	02/02/2016
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jon Weece is the lead teaching pastor at Southland Christian Church, a community of 14,000 Christ-followers in Lexington, Kentucky. He is the author of Jesus Prom. Prior to Southland, Jon was a missionary to Haiti for four years, where he met his wife, Alli. They have two children.

Table of Contents

Begin Here-All of Us Are Like the Rest of Us xi

Part 1 The Cross-What Jesus Did 1

Chapter 1 Vulnerability; A Three-Legged Race 3

Chapter 2 Accessibility: Lucille 11

Chapter 3 Ability: Give Me Your Lunch Money 21

Chapter 4 Personality: Baywatch, Beethoven, and Bacon 30

Chapter 5 Identity: You, Me, and E.T 40

Chapter 6 Humility: Kintsugi 50

Chapter 7 Receptivity: Some Dirt Under Their Nails 59

Part 2 The Church-What Jesus is Doing 71

Chapter 8 Inclusivity: From Crumbs to Communion 73

Chapter 9 Opportunity: A Dad Who Understands Moms 84

Chapter 10 Integrity: Crooked Lines 94

Chapter 11 Responsibility: Baby Powder 103

Chapter 12 Hospitality: Welcome Mats and Black Magic Markers 113

Chapter 13 Availability: Trapped on a Plane with a Skunk 120

Chapter 14 Unity: Good Donuts, Bad Theology 129

Chapter 15 Spontaneity: A Boat in Commerce, Oklahoma 139

Part 3 The City-What Jesus Will Do 149

Chapter 16 Sensitivity: Flight 5191 151

Chapter 17 Reliability: Simplexity 160

Chapter 18 Absurdity: Bother Him 169

Chapter 19 Priority: Interrobang 178

Chapter 20 Eternity: The Already Not Yet 183

End Here-Rest for All of Us 195

Acknowledgments 199

Notes 201

About the Author 205