Table of Contents
Preface vii
Introduction: Why Trying to Be Christian Makes Us Anxious xiii
1 Why You Don't Have to Hear God's Voice in Your Heart 1
Or, How God Really Speaks Today
2 Why You Don't Have to Believe Your Intuitions Are the Holy Spirit 19
Or, How the Spirit Shapes Our Hearts
3 Why You Don't Have to "Let God Take Control" 37
Or, How Obedience Is for Responsible Adults
4 Why You Don't Have to "Find God's Will for Your Life" 57
Or, How Faith Seeks Wisdom
5 Why You Don't Have to Be Sure You Have the Right Motivations 79
Or, How Love Seeks the Good
6 "Why You Don't Have to Worry about Splitting Head from Heart 97
Or, How Thinking Welcomes Feeling
7 Why You Don't Have to Keep Getting Transformed All the Time 117
Or, How Virtues Make a Lasting Change in Us
8 Why You Don't Always Have to Experience Joy 137
Or, How God Vindicates the Afflicted
9 Why "Applying It to Your Life" Is Boring 157
Or, How the Gospel Is Beautiful
10 Why Basing Faith on Experience Leads to a Post-Christian Future 175
Or, How Christian Faith Needs Christian Teaching
Conclusion: How the Gospel of Christ Is Good for Us 191
Afterword to the 2022 Edition 199