The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: Staying Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually A

Description: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer Who are you becoming? That was the question nagging Pastor Comer. Within the pages of this book, readers will find a compelling emotional and spiritual case against hurry and in favor of a slower, simpler way of life. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Pastor and author John Mark Comer presents a compelling emotional and spiritual case against hurry and for a slower, simpler way of life.Who are you becoming? That was the question nagging pastor and author John Mark Comer. By outward metrics, everything appeared successful. But inwardly, things werent pretty. So he turned to a trusted mentor for guidance and heard these words: "Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life. Hurry is the great enemy of the spiritual life." It wasnt the response he expected, but it continues to be the answer he needs.Too often we treat the symptoms of toxicity in our modern world instead of trying to pinpoint the cause. A growing number of voices are pointing at hurry, or busyness as a root of much evil. Within the pages of this book, youll find a compelling emotional and spiritual case against hurry and in favour of a slower, simpler way of life. Author Biography John Mark Comer is the lead pastor of Solid Rock--A Jesus Church, a growing community of Jesus followers based in Portland, Oregon. Prior to planting Solid Rock in 2003, he served as the college pastor at a Calvary Chapel mega church in Southern Oregon. He is married to Tammy, and they have three children: two boys and a girl. A Review "As someone all too familiar with hurry sickness, I desperately needed this book."--Scott Harrison, New York Times best-selling author of Thirst "John Mark Comer is a hugely talented leader, speaker, and writer. You will find lots of wise advice here."--Nicky Gumbel, vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton, London"Necessary. Freeing."--Annie F. Downs, best-selling author of 100 Days to Brave and Remember God"Never has a generation needed a book as much as this. John Mark has beautifully written a remedy for our overworked and tired souls."--Jeremy and Audrey Roloff, New York Times best-selling authors of A Love Letter Life"Great guy; even better book!"--Bob Goff, author of the New York Times bestsellers Love Does and Everybody, Always"Like a tall glass of ice cold water on the hottest day of the year, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry is refreshing, revitalizing, and a shock to the system. Beautifully and compellingly written by one of our foremost thinkers, it is a prophetic message for our time."--Pete Greig, founder of the 24-7 Prayer movement and senior pastor of Emmaus Rd, Guildford, UK"There are those rare books that every single waking person needs to immediately go read. This is that book. Weve found no better conversation or a more much-needed antidote to our cultures problem of busyness and hurry than John Marks words in this book. Beyond helpful and encouraging and insightful to us!"--Alyssa and Jefferson Bethke, New York Times best-selling authors of Jesus > Religion and Love That Lasts"John Mark Comer has given a gift to the church. This book is prophetic, practical, and profoundly life giving. He confronts the idolatry of speed that is causing so much emotional and relational trauma, and he provides a way forward that creates hope, hunger, and a vision of a beautiful life. I consider this required reading."--Jon Tyson, lead pastor of the Church of the City New York and author of The Burden Is Light"John Mark Comers transparency invites us to reconsider how we live our lives by getting straight to the point: if we dont eliminate our busyness, we just may eliminate our souls. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry will inspire you to make the hard but practical choices that will utterly change your trajectory for the better."--Gabe Lyons, president of Q Ideas and author of Good Faith"Living as a spiritually and mentally healthy follower of Jesus in our technological, calendar-driven culture is, it turns out, quite difficult. In this book John Mark Comer shares his story of discovering a different way of life thats inspired by the way and wisdom of Jesus. This is a practical, personal, and challenging call to imagine new ways that our lives can imitate Jesus."--Tim Mackie, cofounder of the Bible Project Review Quote "As someone all too familiar with hurry sickness, I desperately needed this book." --Scott Harrison, New York Times best-selling author of Thirst "John Mark Comer is a hugely talented leader, speaker, and writer. You will find lots of wise advice here." --Nicky Gumbel, vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton, London "Necessary. Freeing." --Annie F. Downs, best-selling author of 100 Days to Brave and Remember God "Never has a generation needed a book as much as this. John Mark has beautifully written a remedy for our overworked and tired souls." --Jeremy and Audrey Roloff, New York Times best-selling authors of A Love Letter Life "Great guy; even better book!" --Bob Goff, author of the New York Times bestsellers Love Does and Everybody, Always "Like a tall glass of ice cold water on the hottest day of the year, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry is refreshing, revitalizing, and a shock to the system. Beautifully and compellingly written by one of our foremost thinkers, it is a prophetic message for our time." --Pete Greig, founder of the 24-7 Prayer movement and senior pastor of Emmaus Rd, Guildford, UK "There are those rare books that every single waking person needs to immediately go read. This is that book. Weve found no better conversation or a more much-needed antidote to our cultures problem of busyness and hurry than John Marks words in this book. Beyond helpful and encouraging and insightful to us!" --Alyssa and Jefferson Bethke, New York Times best-selling authors of Jesus > Religion and Love That Lasts "John Mark Comer has given a gift to the church. This book is prophetic, practical, and profoundly life giving. He confronts the idolatry of speed that is causing so much emotional and relational trauma, and he provides a way forward that creates hope, hunger, and a vision of a beautiful life. I consider this required reading." --Jon Tyson, lead pastor of the Church of the City New York and author of The Burden Is Light "John Mark Comers transparency invites us to reconsider how we live our lives by getting straight to the point: if we dont eliminate our busyness, we just may eliminate our souls. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry will inspire you to make the hard but practical choices that will utterly change your trajectory for the better." --Gabe Lyons, president of Q Ideas and author of Good Faith "Living as a spiritually and mentally healthy follower of Jesus in our technological, calendar-driven culture is, it turns out, quite difficult. In this book John Mark Comer shares his story of discovering a different way of life thats inspired by the way and wisdom of Jesus. This is a practical, personal, and challenging call to imagine new ways that our lives can imitate Jesus." --Tim Mackie, cofounder of the Bible Project Excerpt from Book Prologue: Autobiography of an epidemic Its a Sunday night, 10:00 p.m. Head up against the glass of an Uber, too tired to even sit up straight. I taught six times today--yes, six . The church I pastor just added another gathering. Thats what you do, right? Make room for people? I made it until about talk number four; I dont remember anything after that. Im well beyond tired--emotionally, mentally, even spiritually. When we first went to six, I called up this megachurch pastor in California whod been doing six for a while. "How do you do it?" I asked. "Easy," he said. "Its just like running a marathon once a week." "Okay, thanks." Click. Wait...isnt a marathon really hard? I take up long-distance running. He has an affair and drops out of church. That does not bode well for my future. Home now, late dinner. Cant sleep; that dead-tired-but-wired feeling. Crack open a beer. On the couch, watching an obscure kung fu movie nobodys ever heard of. Chinese, with subtitles. Keanu Reeves is the bad guy. Love Keanu. I sigh; lately, Im ending most nights this way, on the couch, long after the family has gone to bed. Never been remotely into kung fu before; it makes me nervous. Is this the harbinger of mental illness on the horizon? "It all started when he got obsessed with indie marital arts movies..." But the thing is, I feel like a ghost. Half alive, half dead. More numb than anything else; flat, one dimensional. Emotionally I live with an undercurrent of a nonstop anxiety that rarely goes away, and a tinge of sadness, but mostly I just feel blaaah, spiritually... empty. Its like my soul is hollow. My life is so fast . And I like fast. Im type A. Driven. A get-crap-done kind of guy. But were well past that now. I work six days a week, early to late, and its still not enough time to get it all done. Worse, I feel hurried . Like Im tearing through each day, so busy with life that Im missing out on the moment. And what is life but a series of moments? Anybody? I cant be the only one... Monday morning. Up early. In a hurry to get to the office. Always in a hurry. Another day of meetings. I freaking hate meetings. Im introverted and creative, and like most millennials I get bored way too easily. Me in a lot of meetings is a terrible idea for all involved. But our church grew really fast, and thats part of the trouble. I hesitate to say this because, trust me, if anything, its embarrassing: we grew by over a thousand people a year for seven years straight. I thought this was what I wanted. I mean, a fast-growing church is every pastors dream. But some lessons are best learned the hard way: turns out, I dont actually want to be the CEO/executive director of a nonprofit/HR expert/strategy guru/leader of leaders of leaders, etc. I got into this thing to teach the way of Jesus. Is this the way of Jesus? Speaking of Jesus, I have this terrifying thought lurking at the back of my mind. This nagging question of conscience that wont go away. Who am I becoming? I just hit thirty (level three!), so I have a little time under my belt. Enough to chart a trajectory to plot the character arc of my life a few decades down the road. I stop. Breathe. Envision myself at forty. Fifty. Sixty. Its not pretty. I see a man who is "successful," but by all the wrong metrics: church size, book sales, speaking invites, social stats, etc., and the new American dream--your own Wikipedia page. In spite of all my talk about Jesus, I see a man who is emotionally unhealthy and spiritually shallow. Im still in my marriage, but its duty, not delight. My kids want nothing to do with the church; she was the mistress of choice for dad, an illicit lover I ran to, to hide from the pain of my wound. Im basically who I am today but older and worse: stressed out, on edge, quick to snap at the people I love most, unhappy, preaching a way of life that sounds better than it actually is. Oh, and always in a hurry . Why am I in such a rush to become somebody I dont even like? It hits me like a freight train: in America you can be a success as a pastor and a failure as an apprentice of Jesus; you can gain a church and lose your soul. I dont want this to be my life... *** Fast-forward three months: flying home from London. Spent the week learning from my charismatic Anglican friends about life in the Spirit; its like a whole other dimension to reality that Ive been missing out on. But with each mile east, Im flying back to a life I dread. The night before we left, this guy Ken prayed for me in his posh English accent; he had a word for me about coming to a fork in the road. One road was paved and led to a city with lights. Another was a dirt road into a forest; it led into the dark, into the unknown. Im to take the unpaved road. I have absolutely no idea what it means. But it means something , I know. As he said it, I felt my soul tremor under God. But what is God saying to me? Catching up on email; planes are good for that. Im behind, as usual. Bad news again; a number of staff are upset with me. Im starting to question the whole megachurch thing. Not so much the size of a church but the way of doing church. Is this really it? A bunch of people coming to listen to a talk and then going back to their overbusy lives? But my questions come off angry and arrogant. Im so emotionally unhealthy, Im just leaking chemical waste over our poor staff. Whats that leadership axiom? "As go the leaders, so goes the church." Dang, I sure hope our church doesnt end up like me. Sitting in aisle seat 21C, musing over how to answer another tense email, a virgin thought comes to the surface of my mind. Maybe its the thin atmosphere of thirty thousand feet, but I dont think so. This thought has been trying to break out for months, if not years, but Ive not let it. Its too dangerous. Too much of a threat to the status quo. But the time has come for it to be uncaged, let loose in the wild. Here it is: What if I changed my life? *** Another three months and a thousand hard conversations later, dragging every pastor and mentor and friend and family member into the vortex of the most important decision Ive ever made, Im sitting in an elder meeting. Dinner is over. Its just me and our core leaders. This is the moment. From here on, my autobiography will fall into the "before" or "after" category. I say it: "I resign." Well, not resign per se. Im not quitting. Were a multisite church. (As if one church isnt more than enough for a guy like me to lead.) Our largest church is in the suburbs; Ive spent the last ten years of my life there, but my hearts always been in the city. All the way back to high school, I remember driving my 77 Volkswagen Bus up and down Twenty-Third Street and dreaming of church planting downtown. Our church in the city is smaller. Much smaller. On way harder ground; urban Portland is a secular wonderland--all the cards are against you down here. But thats where I feel the gravity of the Spirit weighing on me to touch down. So not resign, more like demote myself. I want to lead one church at a time. Novel concept, right? My dream is to slow down, simplify my life around abiding. Walk to work. I want to reset the metrics for success, I say. I want to focus more on who I am becoming in apprenticeship to Jesus. Can I do that? They say yes. (Most likely they are thinking, Finally .) People will talk; they always do: He couldnt hack it (true). Wasnt smart enough (not true). Wasnt tough enough (okay, mostly true). Or heres one I will get for months: Hes turning his back on Gods call on his life. Wasting his gift in obscurity. Farewell. Let them talk; I have new metrics now. I end my ten-year run at the church. My family and I take a sabbatical. Its a sheer act of grace. I spend the first half comatose, but slowly I wake back up to my soul. I come back to a much smaller church. We move into the city; I walk to work. I start therapy. One word: wow . Turns out, I need a lot of it. I focus on emotional health. Work fewer hours. Date my wife. Play Star Wars Legos with my kids. (Its for them, really.) Practice Sabbath. Detox from Netflix. Start reading fiction for the first time since high school. Walk the dog before bed. You know, live . Sounds great, right? Utopian even? Hardly. I feel more like a drug addict coming off meth. Who am I without the mega? A queue of people who want to meet with me? A late-night email flurry? A life of speed isnt easy to walk away from. But in time, I detox. Feel my soul open up. There are no fireworks in the sky. Change is slow, gradual, and intermittent; three steps forward, a step or two back. Some days I nail it; others, I slip back into hurry. But for the first time in years, Im moving toward maturity, one inch at a time. Becoming more like Jesus. And more like my best self. Even better: I feel God again. I feel my own soul. Im on the unpaved road with no clue where it leads, but thats okay. I honestly value who Im becoming over where I end up. And for the first time in years, Im smiling at the horizon. *** My Uber ride home to binge-watch Keanu Reeves was five years and as many lifetimes ago. So much has changed since then. This little book was born out of my short and mostly uneventful autobiography, my journey from a life of hurry to a life of, well, something else. In a way, Im the worst person to write a Details ISBN0525653090 Author John Mark Comer Pages 224 Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc Year 2019 ISBN-10 0525653090 ISBN-13 9780525653097 Format Hardcover Short Title The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry Language English Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2019-10-29 NZ Release Date 2019-10-29 US Release Date 2019-10-29 UK Release Date 2019-10-29 Publication Date 2019-10-29 Imprint E P Dutton & Co Inc Subtitle Staying Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in Our Current Chaos DEWEY 248.46 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126015822;

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