Jump: Into a Life of Further and Higher
Jump is a powerful guide to becoming a vehicle of compassion,
reconciliation, and transformation in our world.
Life is all about jumps. We jump from high school to college,
school to the professional world, dating to marriage. Each leap
launches us to new levels. Even though we can’t see what’s on
the other side of the wall, our faith jumps are about trusting that
God is there. We experience the liberation when we jump into the
arms of our Savior, then into a church family, and then into a
world desperately in need.
Efrem Smith presents fresh insights into how Christians can say yes
to the jump that takes them deeper into a loving, devotional,
intimate life with God.
Top Highlights
“An adult impala is hesitant to use its ability to jump if it is unable to see where it’s going to land. The inability to see the end of the jump somehow hinders the impala from something it is naturally able to do. I’m a pastor too, like Darrell, so let me put it this way: The inability to live by faith keeps the impala from doing what God created it to do, what it was born to do. It grows up to become an adult with the ability to jump into freedom, to live out its purpose, but it won’t because it doesn’t believe it can.” (source)
“We cannot truly be reconciled to each other without understanding the reality and depth to which we are reconciled to God through Jesus Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. We must have a holistic understanding of reconciliation so that it might point us toward intimacy with God as well as becoming an outer force of transformation that tears down walls of division, no matter what height, in our world.” (source)
“Evangelism today must be loving, gentle, patient, and in some cases very slow.” (source)
“‘Notice that even though the impala has the ability to jump thirteen feet high and thirty feet out, the African impalas are contained here at the zoo by a three-foot wall!’” (source)
“Our jumps should be based on God’s speaking to us; they should be jumps of obedience. Also these jumps ought to increase our dependence on and trust of God.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Jump: Into a Life of Further and Higher
- Author: Smith, Efrem
- Publisher: David C Cook
- Publication Date: 2010
- ISBN: 9781434702531
Efrem Smith uses motivational speaking, comedy, and preaching to equip people for a life of transformation. He is the Superintendent of the Pacific Southwest Conference for the Evangelical Covenant Church, and an Itinerant Speaker with Kingdom Building Ministries. He is a graduate of Saint John’s University and Luther Theological Seminary, and the author of Raising Up Young Heroes and The Hip-Hop Church. He and his family live in the Bay Area of California.