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Women today feel a constant pressure to improve themselves and just never feel like they're "enough." All too often, they live their daily lives disheartened, disillusioned, and disappointed. That's because joy doesn't come from a new self-improvement strategy; it comes from rooting their identity in who God says they are and what he has done on their behalf.
This book calls women to look away from themselves in order to find the abundant life God offers them - contrasting the cultural emphasis on personal improvement and empowerment with what the Scriptures say about a life rooted, built up, and established in the gospel.
"Lord knows that we have more than enough books about ourselves and never enough books about the God that created us. It isn't until we see him that we can then make sense of ourselves. I believe Jen Oshman's book accomplishes that by widening our vision and helping us fall in love with seeing God again."
- Jackie Hill Perry, poet; author; hip-hop artist
Jen Oshman casts a vision for women to reject the idols of our age
and find real hope in Jesus, embracing their identity in Christ and
recovering his design and purpose for their lives.
Embracing the Spiritual Lessons of Unbelonging Too often, cultural
belonging becomes a battle, and its winners gain the world: access,
comfort, safety, community. Yet for those on the margins—set
apart from their culture by differences such as ethnicity, class,
ability, and faith—God offers something even greater. The Gift of
the Outsider celebrates the blessings found in unbelonging—and
calls Christians of all backgrounds to love and listen to their
community’s outcasts. As a Christian, a Black American, a woman,
and an expatriate, author Alicia J. Akins offers heartfelt
reflections on her own experiences as an outsider. She illuminates
how we can cherish the unique gifts that God bestows on those who
endure loneliness and adversity encourage and humbly receive the
invaluable insights outsiders of all kinds have to offer delight in
how the differences within God’s people reflect his majesty—and
how Christ’s reign unifies all believers Compassionate and
biblically grounded, The Gift of the Outsider enriches today’s
broader conversations surrounding diversity and inclusion, and is
sure to encourage and challenge outsiders and insiders alike.
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