Blessed Living
The Gifts of the Beatitudes
- Christian Living
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2025
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Publisher's Description
The Beatitudes are gifts to the church to share with the world. Yet, some Christians either do not know them or hesitate to practice them. This book asks, are such teachings relevant today? Would they work if we tried them? Can they make any real difference in the world? We must try to keep these goals for living in the world. Do we live in a world of righteousness, justice, and peace? Has seeking secular authority helped the church remake the world? Blessed Living is a book that compares the way of Jesus to how Christians tend to present ourselves to the world. It attempts to draw conclusions about how we should live out the faith in the world. This book demonstrates how the New Testament reflects the Beatitudes and makes comparisons to familiar stories from the Old Testament for mourners, those seeking justice, and mercy. Blessed Living is designed for individual seekers, believers, and small discussion groups. It is recommended for people who look for a better way.
Endorsements (3)
“Retelling ancient stories is no easy task, but Jones does so with insight and grace, grounded in common sense, weaving together concern for others, the world, and for God.”
“In this powerfully written book, each of Jesus’s beatitudes is unfolded in a sparklingly fresh essay by C. Don Jones. Each essay kindles the imagination for how the beatitude at hand connects to this moment and to our lives. Taken together, these essays portray a way of living that can truly be called ‘blessed.’ This book is a treasure, a source of insight and nourishment for all Christians and a stimulation for preachers of the beatitudes.”
“In the beatitudes, Jesus shares eternal spiritual truths to help the Jewish people of his day, and later Christian followers, see how God is at work in the story of their lives. Through Blessed Living, Don Jones will help you consider the implications of the beatitudes and find God in your story!” Wil Cantrell, Senior Pastor, Concord United Methodist Church “In Blessed Living, Rev. C. Don Jones discusses how the Beatitudes in Matthew 5 and Luke 6 frame Jesus’s unique approach to life. Jones’s thought-provoking applications of Jesus’s Beatitudes to the twenty-first-century world is both challenging and inspiring.”
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