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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

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You are what you love. But you might not love what you think.

In this book, award-winning writer James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. And whilst we desire to shape culture, we don’t seem to be incessantly conscious about how culture shapes us. We might not realize the ways our hearts are being taught to love rival gods instead of the One for whom we were made. Smith helps readers recognize the formative power of culture and the transformative possibilities of Christian practices. He explains that worship is the “imagination station” that incubates our loves and longings in order that our cultural endeavors are indexed toward God and his kingdom. For this reason the church and worshiping in a local community of believers will have to be the hub and heart of Christian formation and discipleship.

Following the publication of his influential work Desiring the Kingdom, Smith received a lot of requests from pastors and leaders for a more accessible version of that book’s content. No mere abridgment, this new book draws on years of Smith’s popular presentations on the ideas in Desiring the Kingdom to offer a fresh, bottom-up rearticulation. The writer creatively uses film, literature, and music illustrations to engage readers and includes new material on marriage, circle of relatives, youth ministry, and faith and work. He also suggests individual and communal practices for shaping the Christian life.

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