Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction: Why Trying to Be Christian Makes Us Anxious xiii

1 Why You Don't Have to Hear God's Voice in Your Heart 1

Or, How God Really Speaks Today

2 Why You Don't Have to Believe Your Intuitions Are the Holy Spirit 19

Or, How the Spirit Shapes Our Hearts

3 Why You Don't Have to "Let God Take Control" 37

Or, How Obedience Is for Responsible Adults

4 Why You Don't Have to "Find God's Will for Your Life" 57

Or, How Faith Seeks Wisdom

5 Why You Don't Have to Be Sure You Have the Right Motivations 79

Or, How Love Seeks the Good

6 "Why You Don't Have to Worry about Splitting Head from Heart 97

Or, How Thinking Welcomes Feeling

7 Why You Don't Have to Keep Getting Transformed All the Time 117

Or, How Virtues Make a Lasting Change in Us

8 Why You Don't Always Have to Experience Joy 137

Or, How God Vindicates the Afflicted

9 Why "Applying It to Your Life" Is Boring 157

Or, How the Gospel Is Beautiful

10 Why Basing Faith on Experience Leads to a Post-Christian Future 175

Or, How Christian Faith Needs Christian Teaching

Conclusion: How the Gospel of Christ Is Good for Us 191

Afterword to the 2022 Edition 199