Live Like You Give a Damn! - Hardcover

Sine, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1498206271 ISBN 13: 9781498206273

Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2016

Synopsis

Live Like You Give a Damn! declares the very good news that God is raising up a new generation, largely outside the church, to bring impressive change to the lives of our neighbors locally and globally by creating innovative forms of social enterprise and community empowerment. The even better news is that those of us within the church can join this changemaking celebration and discover creative new ways God can use our mustard seeds to make a more remarkable difference than we ever imagined possible. In this book Tom Sine offers practical ways you can join those who are creating their best communities, their best world, and in the process their best lives. Sine shows that in a world changing at warp speed, following Jesus is a ""design opportunity."" It is not only an opportunity to design innovative ways to make a difference but also an opportunity to create lives with a difference, in the way of Jesus, that are simpler and more sustainable--and to throw better parties along the way. Why would anyone want to settle for less and miss the best? ""In Live Like You Give a Damn! [Sine] lifts up a new generation of activists and social entrepreneurs doing world-changing work all over the globe."" --Jim Wallis, Editor, Sojourners ""An enlightened look at how Millennials are shaping the future for the better, and an invitation to join with him in joining them."" --Romanita Hairston, Vice President, World Vision ""This book, his most hopeful and personal, is a real gift to the church."" --Mark Scandrette, Author; Founder of Reimagine ""Tom Sine's new book invites you to see another version of Christianity, and it is all about bringing heaven to earth."" --Shane Claiborne, Author; Member of The Simple Way ""Sine has written a compelling book filled with stories and portraits of hope at a time filled with cynicism, hatred, and negativity. . . . Inspiring and challenging!"" --Noel Castellanos, CEO and President, CCDA ""Be inspired. Join the movement. Live like you give a damn!"" --Rebecca Summer, Pastor, Our Common Table, Everett, WA ""I am glad to commend this exposition that exhibits quite concretely ways to revision, reimagine, and reperform the gospel. Such fresh, imaginative engagement will surely yield a 'well done' from the Lord of the church who makes all things new."" --Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary ""Tom Sine has been engaged in the struggle for social justice for many years. In Live Like You Give a Damn! he lifts up the new generation of activists and social entrepreneurs who are taking the baton from his generation and doing wonderful, necessary, and world-changing work all over the globe. The justice challenges of our time demand an unprecedented response from Christians and all those of faith and conscience, and the witness of millennial activists in response to this challenge, fills me with the same hope for a better future that Tom articulates so well in this book."" --Jim Wallis, New York Times bestselling author of America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America; President of Sojourners, and editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine. ""Tom Sine's incisive curiosity about how the greater good can be realized in our time is contagious. This book, his most hopeful and personal, is a real gift to the church and emerging generations. For the sake of the poor, the planet, and the future of our neighborhoods and cities, let's join Tom and live like we give a damn."" --Mark Scandrette, Founder of Reimagine, Author of FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most ""Above all this is a book about hope and imagination. Tom weaves together ideas, dreams and stories of people and communities who are changing the world one community at a time. And it's infectious. You find yourself wanting to meet with friends over a meal and start sparking ideas talking about what you can do together in your own locale to make a better world. It's refreshing that Tom resis

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About the Author:

Tom Sine is joining a new generation of changemakers who are creating new ways to make a difference and be a difference. Tom and his wife Christine live in an intergenerational community in Seattle. He works with individuals, churches and Christian organizations to enable them to create new ways to be more a part of this new changemaking celebration for times like these. His earlier books include: The New Conspirators, Living on Purpose, Mustard Seed Versus McWorld, Wild Hope and The Mustard Seed Conspiracy. www.msaimagine.org

Review:

''Tom Sine has been a mentor and example to me since I read The Mustard Seed Conspiracy back in 1981. Tom's new book is a great introduction to his life-long message of making change and seizing opportunities. It's as fresh and inspiring in 2016 as The Mustard Seed Conspiracy was in 1981.''
--Brian McLaren, author/speaker/activist (brianmclaren.net)

''I can only aspire to become as hopeful, energetic, socially engaged and awake to the eternal as my friend and mentor Tom Sine. His incisive curiosity about how the greater good can be realized in our time is contagious. This book, his most hopeful and personal, is a real gift to the church and emerging generations. For the sake of the poor, the planet and the future of our neighborhoods and cities, let's join Tom and live like we give a damn.''
--Mark Scandrette, founder of Reimagine, author of FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most

''Social innovators and other changemakers are bringing the future to us in remarkable, powerful ways. Tom Sine serves here as a wonderful, insightful tour guide into this new world; he wants Christians to become part of the changemaking celebration. An inspiring book - I hope it reaches a wide audience!''
--L. Gregory Jones, Williams Professor of Theology and Ministry, Duke Divinity School

''For too long Christians have used our faith as a ticket into heaven and ignored the world around us. We've promised people life after death while many folks are asking if there's life before death. At times we've been so heavenly-minded that we haven't been much help here on earth. Tom Sine's new book invites you to see another version of Christianity -- and it is all about bringing heaven to earth. Let this book inspire you to do something with your life that leaves off the fragrance of Jesus and moves the world closer to God's dream for it.''
--Shane Claiborne, author of Irresistible Revolution and Executing Grace --Wipf and Stock Publishers

About this edition

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1498206271
• ISBN 13: 9781498206273
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 228