Radically Whole: Gospel Healing for the Divided Heart

Complete. Undivided. Whole. This is how we are meant to be, but in today’s word we often find ourselves pulled in two directions: between God and the world, good and bad, between who we really are and what we allow other people to see. In Radically Whole, award-winning author David Gibson explores how we can learn from the New Testament Letter of James to overcome that divide and live the complete lives that God intends for us. Though its teaching on Christian living can be hard-hitting, the letter to James can help us find our way to a better kind of discipleship, where we live a fully integrated and honest life before God and other people. Full of gospel healing and practical insight, Radically Whole shows us that we don’t have to be divided – that by keeping our lives centred around Christ’s teaching, you can become who you were always meant to be, displaying God's goodness and glory to the world. The world may pull us apart, but through God we can all be rebuilt to become Radically Whole.

Publisher: IVP
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781789743517

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David Gibson (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is minister of Trinity Church in Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the co-editor of From Heaven He Came and Sought Her and the author of Destiny: Learning To Live By Preparing To Die. He is married to Angela, and they have four children.

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“The purpose of your consultation at the James clinic is to help you toward full spiritual health. You already know that you will first meet a different physician, a Dr. Gibson, who has studied under Dr. James for many years. He is a somewhat younger man, but his familiarity with Dr. James’s inspired insights is impressive, as is the way he seems able to express the spirit and atmosphere of his teaching, as well as the central truth that Jesus Christ makes you whole. It is an idea that will recur in different ways as Dr. Gibson leads you, gently but firmly, through a comprehensive assessment process. And it begins with the first pages of Radically Whole. In its series of enriching consultations, David Gibson surefootedly provides the diagnosis, prescriptions, and prognosis we all need if we are to be made whole in Jesus Christ.” Sinclair B. Ferguson, Chancellor’s Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary; Teaching Fellow, Ligonier Ministries