Divine Nobodies
Shedding Religion to Find God (and the unlikely people who help you)
- Christian Living
- Publisher: W Publishing Group (Thomas Nelson)
- Published: 2006
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Publisher's Description
What does a Hip-Hop artist, Waffle House waitress, tire salesman, and disabled girl have to do with discovering spiritual truth? What if embracing authentic Christianity is a journey of unlearning? Welcome to Jim Palmer's world! Don Miller meets Anne Lamott meets Brian McLaren in this tale of shedding religion and plunging into uncharted depths of knowing God. Jim Palmer, emergent pastor, shares his compelling off-road spiritual journey and the unsuspecting people who became his guides. "Perhaps God's reason for wanting me," writes Palmer, "is much better than my reason for wanting him. Maybe God's idea of my salvation trumps the version I am too willing to settle for. Seeing I needed a little help to get this, God sent a variety pack of characters to awaken me." For all those hoping there's more to God and Christianity than what they've heard or experienced, each chapter of Divine Nobodies gives the reader permission and freedom to discover it for themselves. Sometimes comical, other times tragic, at times shocking, always honest; Jim Palmer's story offers an inspiring and profound glimpse into life with God beyond institutional church and conventional religion. "I am tempted to say that Jim Palmer could well be the next Donald Miller, but what they have in common, along with an honest spirituality and extraordinary skill as storytellers, is a unique voice... Divine Nobodies is a delight to read, and it was good for my soul to read it." -BRIAN MCLAREN Author of The Secret Message of Jesus "You hold in your hands an amazing story of a broken man finding freedom in all the right places-in God's work in the lives of some extraordinarily ordinary people around him. You will thrill to this delightful blend of gut-wrenching honesty and laugh-out-loud hilarity, and in the end you'll find God much closer, the body of Christ far bigger and your own journey far clearer than you ever dreamed." -WAYNE JACOBSEN Author of Authentic Relationships
Endorsements (5)
“I am tempted to say that Jim Palmer could well be the next Donald Miller, but what they have in common, along with an honest spirituality and extraordinary skill as storytellers, is a unique voice. So I might instead say that one of our best young writers in the future may well be called the next Jim Palmer. Divine Nobodiesis a delight to read, and it did good for my soul to read it.”
“Jim Palmer has written a winsome, thought-provoking, and highly readable narrative—it’s about being Christian and about being who God has created you to be. Jim obviously knows who he is, and he’s a keen observer of humanity, which is why this book hits home. I’m happy to self-identify as a ‘divine nobody.”
“As soon as I saw the title of this book, I had a strong feeling I was going to like it. I had no idea that I would be giving away loose-leaf chapters to friends before I had even finished reading it. Jim Palmer might be at the head of the pack of the new ‘Evanradicals.”
“You hold in your hands an amazing story of a broken man finding freedom in all the right places—in God’s work in the lives of some extraordinarily ordinary people around him. You will thrill to this delightful blend of gut-wrenching honesty and laugh-out-loud hilarity, and in the end you’ll find God much closer, the body of Christ far bigger, and your own journey far clearer than you ever dreamed.”
“I love this book! Coming from a non-church, non- functional, non-connected family I see myself as being a divine nobody in the hands of God. When we come to see ourselves as ‘divine nobodies’ we see the divine in ‘all-bodies.”
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