Banning Liebscher - The Three-Mile Walk: The Courage You Need to Live the Life God Wants for You

Banning Liebscher is a leader I want to follow. Hes a vision caster. A man who knows Jesus and is so hungry for others to know him in the same way. This book answers the questions our entire generation has been wrestling with. What does it look like to live our best life? and What does it look like to courageously align ourselves with holiness and faith? This book will cast a vision for your life that will alter everything. Im thankful for leaders like Banning who lead the way.

MACK BROCK, worship leader

Banning challenges the prevailing lie that happiness is found in wealth and pleasure. He points us in the right direction that abundant life is found as we fully engage with Christ.

LISA BEVERE, New York Times bestselling author

I use the phrase living my best life a lot! So when Banning, a man I have come to respect and admire, speaks about how to truly do so, I know to listen. Through my battles with depression, he has become someone who shines his bright light into the dark places in my soul. He has done it once again with his timely, relatable, deep, yet practical book. Read it and go on an incredible journey to your best life.

MANDISA, national recording artist and speaker

After a ten-year hiatus from the recording industry, Ive been searching for reasons to reengage, reasons to once again answer the call to this vein of ministry in my life. Based on what Id seen and experienced, I lacked courage. I allowed fear and the lies of the enemy to derail my relentless pursuit to answer the call.

What the Holy Spirit so graciously conveys through Banning in this book has catapulted me into a place of obedience and willingness to answer the call once again. I am bold, strong, and God is with me. The joy I find in the journey is the realization of his grace and the fact that Im chosen not because of my merit or goodness but because I simply decided to answer.

Im called to serve the local church by training and developing creatives therein. This book affirmed me on my three-mile walk toward it all.

DARWIN HOBBS, worship pastor and recording artist

This book should be in everyones hands. Inside each of us is a longing to live a fulfilling life, and yet we dont always know how to live it out. In this book, Banning lays out a clear path of how we as followers of Jesus can live in this day and age, and live our best life in a way that defies human reasoning. Im so grateful this book is now in your hands.

ERIC JOHNSON, Bethel Church

This book isnt for observers. Its a call to the ones ready to count the cost. Knowing Banning for more than twenty years, I can attest that he has lived every word in this book himself. Not swayed by crowds or numbers, he has dedicated his life to the gospel of Jesus Christ. This book maps the journey we must take if we really want to take the three-mile walk. Banning is undoubtedly the kind of spiritual father our generation has been crying out for. He illuminates the good without hiding the hard stuff, equipping us for both risk and triumph. I am confident this book is a resource that will be in your library for years to come.

HAVILAH CUNNINGTON, founder, Truth to Table

Banning is a brilliant communicator and has again proven that he has an incredible gift in articulating the profound truths written in this book, truths that will help you discover the call of God on your life and help you take the right steps to seeing your destiny realized. Taking the narrow road is often looked at as hard and irrelevant in todays culture, but it is the path that leads to a blessed and fulfilled life. This book is a must-read for this generation.

ALEX SEELEY, author; lead pastor, The Belonging Co. Church, Nashville

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The Three-Mile Walk

Copyright 2020 by Banning Liebscher

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Names: Liebscher, Banning, author.

Title: The three-mile walk : the courage you need to live the life God wants for you / Banning Liebscher.

Description: Grand Rapids : Zondervan, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: We are all called to change the world, yet many of us dont know how to begin. Jesus Culture founder and pastor Banning Liebscher reveals the three moves that will propel you into the adventure of a lifetime with a heart fully alive, a life fully engaged, and the courage needed for both-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020001825 (print) | LCCN 2020001826 (ebook) | ISBN 9780310358480 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780310358497 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Christian life.

Classification: LCC BV4501.3 .L54145 2020 (print) | LCC BV4501.3 (ebook) | DDC 248.4--dc23

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