The Curious Christian How Discovering Wonder Enriches Every Part of Life Barnabas Piper 9781433691928 Books
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Curiosity is such a childish word, right?
Not so fast. Just because we grow up doesn’t mean we should lose our wonder at the world, or the people around us. When we do, we lose so much because curious is how God made us to be.
Without curiosity a Christian’s life is incomplete. His relationship with God is incomplete. His connections to others are incomplete. He doesn’t know how to interact with the world around him—politics, media, art, entertainment, science, and so much more simply fly past or overwhelm him. Without curiosity he can never discover deep things, deep connections God tucked below the banal surface of life.
Author Barnabas Piper explores what curiosity is, and how it affects relationships. What if people so sought to learn about each other that the most unlikely people became advocates and friends?
It would be transformative, and it would stem from curiosity.
Not so fast. Just because we grow up doesn’t mean we should lose our wonder at the world, or the people around us. When we do, we lose so much because curious is how God made us to be.
Without curiosity a Christian’s life is incomplete. His relationship with God is incomplete. His connections to others are incomplete. He doesn’t know how to interact with the world around him—politics, media, art, entertainment, science, and so much more simply fly past or overwhelm him. Without curiosity he can never discover deep things, deep connections God tucked below the banal surface of life.
Author Barnabas Piper explores what curiosity is, and how it affects relationships. What if people so sought to learn about each other that the most unlikely people became advocates and friends?
It would be transformative, and it would stem from curiosity.
The Curious Christian How Discovering Wonder Enriches Every Part of Life Barnabas Piper 9781433691928 Books
This book had me sold before I even got to chapter 1. The author's dedication to his mom was one of the most beautiful and profound letters from a son to a mother that I've ever read. It challenged me to be the kind of parent to my own children that she clearly was to him. That's the first time I've ever referenced a dedication in a book review, but it really made an impact on me.The book itself was mesmerizing. Piper poignantly points out some of the flaws in our modern ways of thinking. Our rigidity has stomped out the childlike wonder and curiousness that we all possessed as kids, but we lost along the way. Sadly, Christians have seemed to be the forefront of this battle against curiosity. We tend to focus on the negatives (curiosity killed the cat after all) without embracing all the good (curiosity also cured polio). Piper makes the solid case (which is 100% Biblical) that follower of Jesus should be among the most curious and at the forefront of innovation and creative change. The book challenged me to think in new ways and it seemed to unlock a part of my brain that had laid dormant for far too long! I will certainly be a more "Curious Christian" as a result of reading it, and I encourage you to read it too!
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The Curious Christian How Discovering Wonder Enriches Every Part of Life Barnabas Piper 9781433691928 Books Reviews
A well-needed and well-timed elixir for my life. Concise yet thorough and a very good read. Barnabas Piper provides a road map to a more balanced life that honors and pleases God while pointing his readers toward the abundant life Christ desires for each of us.
A quick and inspiring read to challenge Christians to be more curious. Ask questions, be interested, try new things. Seek to make your life more interesting by being more interested and curious. I encourage you to pick this book up for yourself and then pass it on to someone you know, or don't know.
I struggled with this book. I mean that as a compliment and I hope the author--should he ever read this humble review--will take it as one.
I struggled with the book because I wrestled with the idea that curiosity is not really as important as the author makes it out to be. I'll admit that the skeptic in me--who is often far louder than should be allowed--kept saying "Come on Piper; you're making too much out of this."
The thing is; he's really not.
As I read I came to see curiosity as a kind of meta-skill. It's at the root of so many good and beautiful outcomes. They are outcomes we all desire in our lives but maybe we don't know how to get them. Curiosity shows the way.
Make no mistake, this is not a self-help book. This book is deeply spiritual. It is about the curious Christian after all. Throughout the book, Piper points the reader again and again to a good and loving and amazing God who is the ultimate aim of our curiosity and who will satisfy and compel even the hungriest soul.
In the end, I found this book accomplished exactly what it set out to; it made me curious.
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it breathes life into adults who desperately need it. As Christians, curiosity often feels scary. It can feel like we're expressing doubt if we ask the wrong questions or too many of them. Piper explores this in his book, one I admittedly didn't think I would find the subject matter particularly interesting or relevant to my life. In that, I was wrong.
The older we get, the less curious we become. The more we have learned, and the more we assume we know. But the wise people in my life have shown me that the older they get, the more that they learn they do NOT know. The curious Christian continues to explore those things, to think about the things that remain unknown and the things they don't know they don't know. They continue to ask questions. God made us to think and wonder... why do so many of us stop doing that after childhood?
I enjoyed thinking and wondering with Piper in The Curious Christian. And in full disclosure, Barnabas is a good buddy of mine. I lived a few doors down from him our freshman year at college, and this book made me think of the countless 2 and 3am conversations when we freshmen wondered about (and successfully solved, of course) pretty much about everything. This made me miss those days and helped me appreciate the way Barnabas wonders and thinks about the world in a curious and inquisitive way. It encouraged me as a fellow writer to continue to always be thinking, to be curious, to continue to ask questions and seek answers.
Whether you think you're curious or not, you'll be glad you read this one. And as an added bonus, if you listen to the audio book version instead, you get Piper's own droning and sardonic voice for 6 hours. Lucky us )
This book had me sold before I even got to chapter 1. The author's dedication to his mom was one of the most beautiful and profound letters from a son to a mother that I've ever read. It challenged me to be the kind of parent to my own children that she clearly was to him. That's the first time I've ever referenced a dedication in a book review, but it really made an impact on me.
The book itself was mesmerizing. Piper poignantly points out some of the flaws in our modern ways of thinking. Our rigidity has stomped out the childlike wonder and curiousness that we all possessed as kids, but we lost along the way. Sadly, Christians have seemed to be the forefront of this battle against curiosity. We tend to focus on the negatives (curiosity killed the cat after all) without embracing all the good (curiosity also cured polio). Piper makes the solid case (which is 100% Biblical) that follower of Jesus should be among the most curious and at the forefront of innovation and creative change. The book challenged me to think in new ways and it seemed to unlock a part of my brain that had laid dormant for far too long! I will certainly be a more "Curious Christian" as a result of reading it, and I encourage you to read it too!
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