Looking, Loving & Living is an opportunity to look at Jesus in the Four Gospels of the Bible with a Christian Spirituality lens. Looking through reading, devotion, care and prayer, allied with the giving of self because of being drawn to Jesus, yields loving Jesus. Thus, this book opens up possibilities of deeper love for Jesus. Such an approach is for how to live. Thus, immersing one's self in the Gospels with the help of the author's insights and guidelines, impacts everyday living and being intentional about following the Jesus way in all of life.
Hugh Jenkins, a Methodist minister from Durban with academic studies and practical involvement in Christian Spiritualty, helps to guide readers of the four Gospels to pause along the way of newly found reading or long held devotion and study of Jesus, for encounter with Jesus the Christ. This often involves deep friendship and other vital relational interactions with Jesus. Therefore, he gives prayer ideas within all the topics he raises as a means of facilitating further responses to Jesus.
The author considers each of the Gospels individually, with focus on themes in each Gospel to aid spiritual formation that is intentional concerning Jesus and commitment to him. He then presents several themes of Christian spirituality drawn from across all four Gospels.
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