Surrender to Love: Discovering the Heart of Christian Spirituality (The Spiritual Journey)

Excellent descriptions and examples to surrendering love. Easy to follow and feel. Words are great representations of reality and process.

Arrive on time and as described

We are using this as a Bible study, but you could read it on your own. The author has written many books and this is one of a trilogy, but it’s as good a place as ever to startThe expanded edition has questions for every chapter.

I cannot recommend this book enough. Having grown up in a very works-righteousness home / church, this book was so freeing to me. It has really opened my eyes and changed my perspective on what God thinks of me. Instead of living with crippling fear and perfectionism, Benner has reminded me to rest freely in the love Christ has for me. I now often am reminded of the picture of floating in the river of God’s love rather than frantic treading. Thank you for such a beautiful book. I will be sharing this with many of those I do ministry with.

If you want to grow spiritually this book might help you. It did the 10 men who read it and then spent an hour weekly discussing over ZOOM their ponderments and learning.

In recent weeks l have been challenged by the thought of weather I have surrendered all of me or just the parts that are easy to God. This book was suggested as starting point so I bought it. It has challenged me more than I wanted. I have marked many passages to go back and read again. I realize that I have a ways to go to become completely surrendered to God. If you want to grow it’s a good book to read.

I found this book incredibly invitational despite the fact that I was being repeatedly challenged to give up lesser things … my trinkets for a treasure.

The love of God, shown by Him coming down to us through Christ Jesus, is The source of this author's love for people.I was touched by the few people who were willing to share their brokenness, and how the author patiently and lovingly encouraged them to reconsider faith in the Lord Jesus and His Father.I like the fact that he didn't write a self-improvement / self-help book, as we can't do it ourselves. We have to (re)surrender to Love.