Leave the closet of spiritual emptiness and step into the light of A Passionate Life!
Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 @ 6:49 pm by The B & B Media Group, Inc.
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• You Found Your Purpose. Now Discover Your Passion.

Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, May 11, 2005 (The Religion Wire™) — Many believers deeply yearn, but essentially fail, to experience the Christian life as God intends it to be. Monotonously performing their religious duties while vainly striving to sustain the “right” emotions, they try to evade the plaguing question: “What is so great about being a Christian after all?” A Passionate Life (Cook Communications, May 2005), by Mike Breen and Walt Kallestad, answers this question as it tenderly draws these desperate seekers to a lifetime of living simply, purposefully, and passionately.

By linking vital biblical concepts with eight memorable shapes, Breen and Kallestad have created LifeShapes™, a discipleship system that solidly builds upon the groundwork laid by the popular The Purpose-Driven Life. Effectively exposing the sources of Christian discontentment, emptiness, and apathy, LifeShapes™ forms the vocabulary that expresses the theology and daily life of a disciple of Jesus. A Passionate Life incorporates the LifeShapes™ transforming principles and coaches the believer to a recovery of the passion required to fulfill his God-given purpose radically.

As rector and team leader of St. Thomas’ Church in Sheffield, Mike Breen created and used LifeShapes™ to grow the largest church in the north of England, where 80 percent of the congregation are under the age of 40. Now Breen serves together with fellow pastor and author Walt Kallestad on the staff of Community Church of Joy in Glendale, Arizona, as the growing church of 12,000 daily lives out the LifeShapes™ process.

A Passionate Life invites other believers to share in this same vibrant Kingdom life by shedding a deeper understanding of what it means to truly walk with Jesus—to be his follower, his disciple—in a way that they can remember and apply to every situation and relationship in their lives. By clearly illuminating God’s intentions for them individually, Christians are driven to abandon the world of the walking weary to live a life full of purpose and passion as Jesus promised—and to teach others to do the same.

A Passionate Life
Authors Mike Breen and Walt Kallestad
Cook Communications/NexGen May 2005
ISBN 0-78144-269-9/hardcover/$19.99
lifeshapes.com

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