Upside-Down Spirituality

The 9 Essential Failures of a Faithful Life

By: Chad Bird

Narrated by: Brandon Batchelar

Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

In our age when the church can too often seem like a poor copy of the world, Chad Bird challenges us to reclaim the astounding originality of our ancient, backward faith. Where the world stresses the importance of success, Bird invites listeners to embrace nine specific failures in the areas of our personal lives, our relationships, and the church. Why? Because what human wisdom deems indispensable is so often an impediment to our spiritual growth, and what it deems insignificant is so often essential to it.

With compelling examples from the Bible and today, Bird paints an enticing picture of the counterintuitive, countercultural life that God wants for us. He helps listeners delight in all of the ways that Jesus turned the world upside down, allowing us to experience true freedom, not from our weaknesses but in the midst of them.

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©2019 Chad Bird (P)2019 Oasis Audio

Excellent Perspective

No, the only correct perspective, the Biblical one. Chad Bird walked away from the Lord, but learned invaluable lessons about God and His plan for the church. Another must read.

Another Must Read

Chad bird does it again with an excellent book that is for laymen and church workers. You won’t regret hearing this book. I cannot recommend it highly enough

Refreshing, simple, and profound

Something about this book makes me think it’s one of the most profound books I’ve read on Christianity in a long time. Perhaps it’s the timeliness of it? It’s an analysis of our modern culture and the secular values that are creeping in and polluting our churches. So it’s a book that tries to take us back to the original church in Acts and Jesus’s true teachings which are often very counterintuitive to our modern culture. The book does all this without being “preachy” or scolding as we’re all guilty of succumbing to the temptation of modern culture. It’s an eye opener that the author is journeying on along with the reader. Well written and perfect message for our time. Also it transcended denominations successfully- it felt both progressive and conservative at the same time. Great book!

This book changed my life.

Are you worried about failing? Are you anxious of becoming less than what you aspired to be? Does the notion of settling for something other that what you’ve planned and plotted for your life could potentially be, frighten you?

Good. That’s where God wants you to be.

This book speaks of the unabashed failures each of us has or will experience in our everyday lives. The lyric, “I am weak, and He is strong” is a sore understatement as you turn these pages. This book is for the workaholic overachiever, the devoted private school soccer mom, the lone-ranger Christian, the mega-church congregate. This book is for everyone on the margins and all of those in between.

This book made me reevaluate my perceptions on how Jesus views and interacts with his beloved. Christ is waiting on the sidelines of our lives. He is anticipating us to swan dive in our self-righteousness, and belly flop as our flesh takes a beating.
And when that happens, he is waiting for us to call on him. His undying love will always be there to nurture us from the depths of our despair and bring us back to what really matters, Him.
Once you start this book you will not put it down.

Great messages for today

Great lessons to ponder, highly recommended content. Little long winded overall delivery with spots of slow monotonous narration.

Rach

Even though these are biblical principles we have read in our bibles & heard from wise faithful men/women of the Christian faith, we still lie to ourselves & live quite differently in reality. This book helps us see in between the cracks of our incorrect beliefs, whether they are masked by good looking self-righteous behavior (still sin) or straight up sin we hide yet know is killing us. Chad Bird invites the body of Christ to faithfully hold each other up and be “fully known” by the community of Christ. This will bring redemption through the grace of God where brokenness is simply the way we are & we can stop living in a hidden state of shame.

Beautiful, hard, necessary truth!

This book provides an awakening the world needs! Beautifully written and straight to the heart, rooted in and centered on Christ