Failure: What Jesus Said About Sin, Mistakes and Messing Stuff Up av Emma Ineson

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<p><b>''A superb book on failure . . . humorous, realistic and absolutely not </b><b>judgemental</b><b>.''</b></p><p><b>JUSTIN WELBY</b></p><p></p><p> In 2019, Emma Ineson wrote about ambition and what it means for Christians to be successful. And then there was a global pandemic . . . Suddenly failure began to feel very much more familiar than success.</p><p></p><p> But what is failure? What did Jesus think of it? What did he say about sin, mistakes and generally mucking things up? At the start of this wonderfully humorous and encouraging book - which will end at the cross - it''s suggested that our tendency to lump all kinds of failure together could be a bit unhelpful. A more nuanced understanding of what sort of failure we''re dealing with might just allow us to make friends with it and respond more appropriately. This idea leads us ''Towards an (Imperfect) Theology of Failure'', based on key Christian thinking, and Emma poses the que