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Title: Lucky: How the Kingdom Comes to Unlikely Peopl - eBook
By: Glenn Packiam
Format: DRM Free ePub
Vendor: David C Cook
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781434703644
ISBN-13: 9781434703644
Stock No: WW21476EB

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Glenn Packiam redefines the word lucky in the context of Jesus’ beatitudes in Luke’s Gospel.
 
Lucky uncovers how the poor, hungry, mourning and persecuted are blessed because the Kingdom of heaven—its fullness, comfort, and reward—is theirs in spite of their condition. This is Christ’s announcement: the Kingdom of God has come to unlikely people.
 
Like the people Jesus addressed, we are called lucky not because of our pain or brokenness but because in spite of it, we have been invited into the Kingdom. The trajectory of our lives have been altered. What’s more, we now have a part in the future that God is bringing. Like Abraham, we have been blessed to carry blessing, to live as luck-bearers to the unlikely and unlucky.

Author Bio

Glenn Packiam is executive pastor at New Life Church, where he oversees spiritual formation and serves as the teaching pastor for NewLifeSundayNight. Glenn is also the writer of several well-known worship songs including "Your Name" and "My Savior Lives." He is the author of Secondhand Jesus: Trading Rumors of God for a Firsthand Faith and Butterfly in Brazil: How Your Life Can Make a World of Difference. Glenn and his family live in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Foreword

I have just finished reading the book you are holding in your hands, Glenn Packiam's Lucky. And I'm feeling lucky. I'm feeling lucky to have spent a few hours in the company of a pastor who cares enough about the Gospel of Jesus and the Kingdom of God to take them seriously on their own terms, to respect their integrity. He doesn't "adapt" them to the American consumer culture. He doesn't strain to make them relevant to a secularized way of life that is only interested in God on its own terms. He is not a Bible "salesman" selling a religious product at cut-rate prices.

He begins by throwing us into the deep end of the pool, introducing the centerpiece of Christian teaching with Jesus blessing a quartet of losers: the poor, the hungry, the grief-stricken, the despised (Luke 6:20-24). And the water is freezing cold. But Pastor Packiam doesn't apologize-he seems to think that Jesus means what he says. I hear him saying to us, "Get used to it."<p>

And we do get used to it, largely because the biblical message is conveyed to us on its own terms, as narrative. Not "truths" or "principles" or "advice", proof texts proving that Jesus didn't really mean what he said. The story, from Genesis to Jesus, gathers us into relationships and plot. Nothing impersonal here.

Not only do the Scriptures retain their original "storied," relational, character in the pages you are about to read but the poor, hungry, grief-stricken, and despised also retain theirs. None are lumped into categories and accounted for by statistics. They have personal names; they live in locatable places. We find ourselves in the company of a pastor who knows the men, women, and children he serves in Jesus' name. The stories convey a sense of accuracy and dignity. I don't catch a hint of sentimentalism or propagandistic manipulation in the telling. These are not poster-child renditions to manipulate our emotions.

There is also this. The poor, grief-stricken, and despised, that by now we are becoming accustomed to recognizing as lucky, make their appearance in Malaysia, Portland, Chicago, Starbucks, Cambodia, Detroit, Colorado Springs, and Uganda. Lest we stereotype the luckless as people we will never see, or maybe the person we look at in the mirror every morning, we are brought into a multi-cultural, world-embracing community in which God is doing His kingdom work.<p>

This is explicitly kingdom work, kingdom of God work, a kingdom already here but also in the making. We are not just picking up the pieces in the wake of the expulsion from Eden and the confusion at Bable. God is making a kingdom and Christ is king. We are part of the work being done and also participants in the work. As we participate we realize that we bring no qualifications to the task, none at all. Lest we get in the way of the kingdom work that God is doing, Jesus redefines us all as the poor, the hungry, the grief-stricken, and the despised. Then as Pastor Packiam deftly and clearly works us and others into the kingdom story, we realize how thoroughly blessed we are-lucky, lucky indeed. - Eugene H. Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver B. C.

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