Sean McGever - The Good News of Our Limits: Find Greater Peace, Joy, and Effectiveness Through Gods Gift of Inadequacy

God is God. We are not. He is limitless. We are limited. On the surface, this sounds depressing. But as this book makes clear, this truth is wonderfully freeing as it eradicates the life-sucking pressure to be everything to everyone, everywhere. Im so glad Sean wrote this book!

JORDAN RAYNOR, national bestselling author of Redeeming Your Time, Master of One, and Called to Create

Sean McGever has been a lifelong bearer of good news. Here, he has done it again, this time proclaiming a refreshing declaration of freedom: Its okay to be a human being! Dietrich Bonhoeffer reminded us that we humans will always be limited in our understanding because we are creations. McGever has developed this idea and expanded it by encouraging us that part of being beautifully and wonderfully made (Ps. 139) by the Creator includes our limits. They are a part of the design, not a flaw. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free (Gal. 5:1).

SCOTT LISEA, campus pastor at Westmont College

McGever digs into the hustle-pause spectrum of our lives, emphasizing the reality of human limitation. According to McGever, our limitations do not pose a threat to kingdom work but are rather a reminder that God is King and we are his image bearers. I found much-needed purpose and relief in reading this book.

RACHEL JOY WELCHER, editor at Fathom magazine and author of Talking Back to Purity Culture

The Good News of Our Limits is a refreshing encouragement to embrace how God intentionally designed us as finite human beings. Through relatable stories and illustrations, McGever helps us all discover joy in our inadequacy.

DREW HILL, pastor and award-winning author of Alongside: Loving Teenagers with the Gospel

McGever leads us on a thought-provoking journey of self-discovery into the beautiful realizations of our God-given limitations. Along the path, he paints a relatable portrait filled with personal and familial anecdotes, helping readers find freedom through the knowledge of the limits of their humanity. This book makes a great gift for anyone needing to understand how they can flourish despite real inadequacies, through reliance in God and in community with fellow less-than-perfect believers.

SAMMY ALFARO, professor at College of Theology, Grand Canyon University

In a culture that constantly tells us to do more, be more, work harder, and have success at all costs, this book provides a refreshing alternative way to live. We simply cant do it all. We need to learn how to listen to our lives, to recalibrate, and to make wise choices. Sean doesnt just write about this, he lives it. He is one of the most highly productive, effective leaders I know. Sean also lives out of a deep sense of his own unique gifting and a sense of clarity around the priorities of his life while acknowledging his own limits. This book is filled with practical stories and keen biblical insights that, if heeded, will be good and freeing news for all who read it.

PAM MOORE, senior director of learning and leadership at Young Life

Rarely is a person as invested in the lives of adolescents and also committed to theological excellence as Sean. He is passionate about being there for a generation of kids who have struggled to find their way amid the pandemic. The mental health toll on teens and young adults has been devastating. The words in this book encourage people to receive the grace they need to be whole again and to be free from expectations of performance. Sean shows us that Scripture can free us, not get us caught up in the dos and donts of behavior that can be so discouraging. The freedom we have in Jesus rings loud and clear through Seans words.

JAN HAMILTON, psychiatric nurse practitioner, founder, and CEO of Doorways

No matter where you are in life, family, career, or your walk with Christ, the words scripted in The Good News of Our Limits will speak volumes to you. When the gospel says one person plants the seeds, another waters, and God creates the growth, I never really saw the perspective of this approach even though I had read this many times. The Good News of Our Limits provides a much-needed perspective of what God intends for us to do as opposed to us trying to be and do more than what is humanly possible.

WARREN PANICO, CEO of Sigma US

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The Good News of Our Limits

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