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Do you secretly think that the harder you work, the more God is pleased with you? You can live like thatfor a while. But imagine what it might mean instead to unclench your teeth, loosen your grip, and actually experience Gods pleasure in younot just in everything you are doing for Him? The Well-Played Life is a journey of a life filled with richness, fruitfulness, and creativity of living in Gods pleasure. Renowned author Leonard Sweet explores what it means to please God in the nitty-gritty of life; how that changes from the time we are 5 to the time we are 50; and how in every age of our lives, in everything we do, we can experience Gods gift of play. The Well-Played Life offers a new spiritual direction of enjoying (and being enjoyed by) God. Discover how a Sabbath way of Christian joy is not only possible, but also how we were designed . . . and a core part of Gods plan for our lives.
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The Well-Played Life is an invitation to allow our minds to wander outside the boxes of our own limited understanding, and learn to have fun being Gods children. It is a prophetic cry for us to rediscover our ability to enjoy fresh forms of spontaneous expression and unbridled joy. Len makes it very clear how we have forgotten who we are as heirs of the Creator, and how we are to be creative, playful, and have fun! Lens insights are at times intuitive and counterintuitive, and always sensory rich, seeking to feed our all-too-often depleted experience of the abundant life. With wit, wisdom, humor, theological brilliance, and childlike simplicity, Len offers us an invitation to do life differently, perhaps even do life the way God intended.
BISHOP MARK J. CHIRONNA
Church On The Living Edge and Mark Chironna Ministries, Orlando, Florida
One of the problems with many modern Christians is that their conceptions of faith are too boring. Theyve taken the God who animates fireflies and makes donkeys talk and imprisoned Him in their systematic theologies and rigid formulations. Theyve reduced the wild ride of faith to a list of pietistic dos and donts or a couple of rituals performed one tiny hour each week. In moments like these, Im thankful for Leonard Sweet. The Well-Played Life is an invitation to splash around in the pools of Gods grace and let the wind of the Spirit tickle your cheeks. Its a call to open your eyes to the wonders and joy of God all around us. This book will capture your heart, stir your soul, and set you free to recover a life that is as fun as it is faithful.
JONATHAN MERRITT
Author of Jesus Is Better Than You Imagined
The younger Len Sweet grows, the more playful, sincere, deep, and beautiful his writings become. He never runs out of fresh ideas, metaphors, and stories, as this book shows more than ever. It offers a provocative and life-changing look at work as play as God meant it to be. After hearing Len share some of these ideas during a recent visit to South Africa, I anxiously awaited the publication of this book. Yet it surpassed my wildest expectations. Len smartly unfolds the good news for First, Second, and Third Agers that God has put us in the world not to judge us, but to enjoy us. Vintage Sweet surely! Biblical truths in beautiful new language undoubtedly!
STEPHAN JOUBERT
Extraordinary professor of contemporary ecclesiology, University of the Free State, South Africa; research fellow, Radboud University, the Netherlands
Len Sweet reminds us that we are all children of a loving Father, and as such we are made to play, create, and enjoy this precious gift called life. This is a needed and timely reminder.
NEIL COLE
Author of Organic Church, Church 3.0, Journeys to Significance, and Primal Fire
The Yoda of wordsmithing and cultural insight has delivered another masterpiece. And what a needed piece in a world where we simply use people and resources with transactional perspectives, with disregard for soul-making. Thanks, Len, for helping us make the connection between the abundant life and the play-full life.
REGGIE MCNEAL
Author of Get Off Your Donkey! and other non-bestsellers
To David McDonald
a Master Jesus Player
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The Well-Played Life: Why Pleasing God Doesnt Have to Be Such Hard Work
Copyright 2014 by Leonard Sweet. All rights reserved.
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ISBN 978-1-4143-7362-1 (softcover)
ISBN 978-1-4143-9080-2 (ePub); ISBN 978-1-4143-8393-4 (Kindle); ISBN 978-1-4143-9081-9 (Apple)
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G ROUCHO M ARX once said this to an author: From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed by laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
The fact that I am writing a book on a play ethic when I am known for my work ethic may strike some as the height of hypocrisy or, like Groucho, keep them laughing so hard that they never get to reading the book.
I deserve the ridicule. Martin Luther suggested that, in order to overcome ones deficiencies, a good preacher should be willing to let everyone vex and hack away at him.
Vex and hack away.
I used to believe that the quality of life depended on the quality of our work. This book posits the opposite belief: The quality of life depends on the quality of our play. Its time I repented of my workaholic ways. I was wrong. I am open to correction, though criticism is hard to take, especially when it comes from a friend, relative, colleague, acquaintance, or stranger. (Did I leave anyone out?)
This is not the first thing Ive gotten wrong in my life, and it wont be the last. For instance, in 1 Corinthians 6:10, where it says in the KJV, NASB, and ESV that revilers will not inherit the kingdom of God, I used to mistakenly read revelers. So, for years, I disdained partying as a waste of time and a squandering of soul. Then one day I reread the passage in a different translation and realized that it spoke not against people who party too much (revelers), but against people who hate too much (revilers).
I almost turned into a reviler myself, and put this book on a back burner, when someone sent me the following e-mail that started a slow burn inside me:
I was given a copy of a book entitled The Map: The Way of All Great Men by one of the men on my journey looking to start a Mens League. I was reading this book and came across this: I read a lot of Christian books written by older men. God has given great wisdom to men like Tony Campolo, Leonard Sweet, and Eugene Peterson. But Ive noticed something about these men: The older they get, the more feminine their musings become. Their theology gets softer and more pliable. I think I know why.
Older men? Softer? Pliable? Hey, Im not old; Im at least two decades younger than...
But then I realized that my burn-the-candle-at-both-ends lifestyle, my leave-ashes-not-dust ambitions may have made me appear decades older, not younger, than my biological age.
All of life is being at play. At certain times, we need to be in play, the body of Christ with one mind in mission. This book is the fruit of testing whether being in play and being at play might be a distinction without a difference.
I have resisted the taxonomies of play, first introduced in the 1990s by Brian Sutton-Smith, and more recently by Matthew Kaiser. I have also resisted dropping down into many other interesting rabbit holes, thanks partly to the warnings and wisdom of my colleague and fiction coauthor Lori Wagner, whose architectural genius helped me design this book.
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