York Moore - Do Something Beautiful: The Story of Everything and a Guide to Finding Your Place In It

In a world of despair, injustice, and hopelessness, Moore reminds us of the beauty of the cross and challenges us to reflect that beauty in our everyday lives and in our everyday relationships. Do Something Beautiful is a must-read guide to finding your place in Gods story.

TOM LIN

President/CEO of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

This book presents us with a beautifully framed call to live a beautiful and impactful life for Jesus. York brings a distinctly missional approach to abroad range of lifes pursuits and interests, and he does it is a way that is eminently doable and deeply appealing. A worthy read.

ALAN HIRSCH

Founder of Forge International, 100 Movements, and the 5Q Collective

In Do Something Beautiful, York Moore has both told his personal story while explaining the story of everything. Moore not only helps us understand concepts from Scripture like righteousness, justice, beauty, and mercy, but helps us long to experience them and describes practical ways we share them with others.

STEVE DOUGLAS

President of Cru

In a world filled with noise, York Moore is a prophetic voice with a burning passion for Jesus, justice, and people. More than another preacher, York has given his life to fight for the voiceless, marginalized, and build bridges to bring glimpses of Gods Kingdom to earth. Do Something Beautiful is more than a book. Its an invitation into the story of God, who is making all things new. Spending time with York has enriched, and changed my life, and I believe this book can change yours to see a God who is bigger, better, and more beautiful than your wildest dreams. And the best part He wants to use you! In a world full of division, pain, and brokenness, lets do something beautiful.

NICK HALL

Evangelist, Founder of PULSE and CEO of the US Lausanne Committee

Yorks book Do Something Beautiful has been a joy to read! He offers great perspective for our current generations longing to be a part of the bigger story. Using honest and transparent personal stories, York beautifully portrays the Gospel as the foundation to that inner longing for true beauty. Personally, I love how he did not try to avoid the pain in his own life or those around him, but rather embraced it in order to find God in the midst of pain-that we must be willing to embrace the cost, however high, to do something truly beautiful. The stories he tells will stir your heart to do something beautiful as you walk with Jesus! There is a longing for true revival and awakening all across the earth and its stories and books like these that will provide tools for how to walk in the radical love of Jesus and see revival and awakening!

LINDY AND THE CIRCUIT RIDERS

2018 by R. YORK MOORE

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Moore, R. York, 1969- author.

Title: Do something beautiful : the story of everything and a guide to finding your place in it / R. York Moore.

Description: Chicago : Moody Publishers, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018010738 (print) | LCCN 2018023473 (ebook) | ISBN 9780802496591 (ebook) | ISBN 9780802417121

Subjects: LCSH: Christian life.

Classification: LCC BV4501.3 (ebook) | LCC BV4501.3 .M66565 2018 (print) | DDC 248.4--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018010738

ISBN: 978-0-8024-1712-1

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Dr. Cornelius Plantinga, a great theologian and former president of Calvin Seminary, once wrote a book on sin titled Not the Way Its Supposed to Be. Its a powerful treatise on sin and shalom, and I cannot think of a better phrase to describe the visceral feeling that we find ourselves in as we navigate through this world we find ourselves in today.

As we look to the world around us, often dark, we discern that even a world that does not know the nuances of hamartiology (the study of sin) can feel the pangs of the worlds brokenness, fracturing, and can identify that gut feeling of the loss of innocence. This brokenness is coming to the surface now more than ever, and our response to this brokenness is crucial. How Christians bring clarity in the midst of a world of confusion will determine much for the witness of Jesus in the world in our generation.

But there is much hope in the world. Roy Hession, in his work We Would See Jesus, says, The glorious, central fact of Christianity is that God has made a full and final revelation of Himself in Jesus which has made Him understandable, accessible, and desirable to the simplest and most fearful of us.

This is infinitely attractive and profoundly glorious. We have access to this salvation in the midst of a world gone wrong and a universe gone sideways. And York Moore shows us the true solution that the narrative into healing, wholeness, and flourishing is found in the light of Jesus. Jesus beautiful story encompasses and wraps up what we see in the world. Moore helps us get a glimpse of that light, that narrative, and that beauty that is pervading the world in opposition to the darkness.