All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know? God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?
2016 Christian Book Award finalist (Nonfiction category)
Very rarely in the Bible does God command someone to “Stay.” He opens a door, and then he invites us to walk through it—into the unknown. And how we choose to respond will ultimately determine the life we will lead and the person we will become. In fact, to fail to embrace the open door is to miss the work God has made for us to do.
In All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?, bestselling author John Ortberg opens our eyes to the countless doors God places before us every day, teaches us how to recognize them, and gives us the encouragement to step out in faith and embrace all of the extraordinary opportunities that await.
So go ahead—walk through that door. You just might do something that lasts for eternity.
Top Highlights
“God’s primary will for your life is not the achievements you accrue; it’s the person you become. God’s primary will for your life is not what job you ought to take; it’s not primarily situational or circumstantial. It’s not mainly the city where you live or whether you get married or what house you ought to be in. God’s primary will for your life is that you become a magnificent person in his image, somebody with the character of Jesus. That is God’s main will for your life. No circumstance can prevent that.” (source)
“God may have very good reasons to leave choices up to us rather than sending us e-mails telling us what to do” (source)
“Open doors in the Bible never exist just for the sake of the people offered them. They involve opportunity, but it’s the opportunity to bless someone else. An open door may be thrilling to me, but it doesn’t exist solely for my benefit.” (source)
“‘Forgetting what is behind.’ One of the great tasks of the spiritual life is learning what to remember and what to forget. I am to forget ‘what is behind.’ My guilt, my inadequacy, my weakness, my regrets.” (source)
“God is primarily in the character-forming business, not the circumstance-shaping business.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do?
- Author: Ortberg, John
- Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
- Publication Date: 2015
- ISBN: 9781496403711