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What If Holiness Is About More Than What We Don’t Do?
Bestselling author redefines holiness to focus on our actions, not our inaction

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 9, 2009 – Gary Thomas, bestselling author and spiritual formation expert, wants us to redefine our definition of holiness. In Holy Available (formerly titled The Beautiful Fight), Thomas challenges Christians to rethink holiness and spiritual formation—to construct what he calls a “full-bodied” faith.

“True holiness goes far beyond moral choices,” Thomas says, “and ushers us into a much deeper transformation of Christlikeness.”

We’ve forgotten how radical Christian transformation can be. We must rediscover a faith filled with passion and embrace the struggle to fully express the wonder and life-changing power of Christ in this world.

“I invite you to explore the depths of a truly transforming faith—an incarnational spirituality that doesn’t dwell merely on a list of prohibitions and forbidden sins but powerfully ushers us into something so precious, so profound and so stirring that we would gladly give up all we have just to lay hold of it. It is what in our deepest longing we truly want to become – like Jesus,” Thomas says. “It’s a real struggle to get there, but the destination is so glorious that the fight to attain it is properly called beautiful.”

John Ortberg says, “The first chapter alone is worth reading many times. This is beauty and struggle. This is the death that leads to life.” Holy Available will inspire, equip and challenge readers to delve ever deeper into what it means to be a truly holy believer, transformed into the image of Jesus Christ.

Gary Thomas is a writer and founder of the Center for Evangelical Spirituality. He is the author of several books including Sacred Marriage, Sacred Pathways, Sacred Parenting and the Gold Medallion Award-winning Authentic Faith. For more information visit: www.garythomas.com.
 
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