Valuable

Come and see that our purpose as Christians is not about being useful but about being known by God and enjoying him.

We all want to be useful to God, but often we feel that we’re not, or, because of illness or other difficulties, that we can’t be as active as we’d like to be. Liz Carter wants to rescue us from the spiral of feeling useless that we get caught in, and to show us that being useful isn’t what Christianity is about. In fact, the Bible barely talks about God using people at all.

Weaving together insightful Scriptural analysis and beautifully told stories, Liz takes us on a journey to see what the Bible really says about weakness, identity, and God’s purposes for us: helping us to see ourselves and our relationship with God in an entirely different and much more glorious way. Readers will discover that our purpose as Christians is not about being useful but about being known by God and enjoying him.

This book is particularly helpful for those struggling with long-term physical or mental illness, but it’s also a great encouragement to Christians who feel that they are not good enough or useful enough to God for other reasons.

Questions at the end of each chapter make this a helpful resource to read with a friend or in groups.

1. Opening Credits
2. Foreword
3. Introduction
4. Chapter 1: We Are the Useless
5. Chapter 2: Into the Upside Down
6. Chapter 3: God Is Not a User
7. Chapter 4. A Church for Broken People
8. Chapter 5: A New Kind of Wholeness
9. Chapter 6: A New Hope Story
10. Chapter 7: Into an Upside-down Identity
11. Chapter 8: Liberated into Utmost You
12. Reflection Guide
13. A Blessing Prayer
14. Closing Credits