Nice
Why We Love to Be Liked and How God Calls Us to More
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3.8 • 9 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
God never called us to be nice.
What happens when we replace courage with compromise?
What happens when we replace honesty with likability?
What happens when we replace conviction with clichés?
What happens when we replace discipleship to Christ with a devotion to nice?
We live in a culture that prizes niceness as one of its highest virtues. Niceness keeps the peace, wins friends, gains influence, and serves our reputations well, but it also takes the teeth out of our witness and the power out of our faith. When we choose to be nice instead of faithful, we bear fruits that are bland, bitter, empty, and rotten to the core.
In this life-changing book, Sharon Hodde Miller explores the seemingly innocent idol that has crept into our faith and quietly corrupted it, producing the bad fruits of cowardice, inauthenticity, shallowness, and more. Then she challenges readers to cultivate a better tree, providing practical steps to reclaim our credibility as followers of Christ, and bear better, richer, more life-giving fruits.
Customer Reviews
A Biblical look At Nice
The book Nice is a different kind of book one that will challenge you in a great way. I enjoyed reading the book. I will be going back to explore the book again because their are so many nuggets to grasp. Sharon says this about the book “
God did not call you to be nice. This statement has been rattling around in my head for well over a year now, and I haven’t been able to shake it. It has reemerged at crucial moments, not as an excuse to be snarky, angry, or rude, but because I have noticed something going on in my heart, and in the church, for a while now: A competing allegiance. A warm and inviting idolatry that has managed to wedge itself between us and true obedience to Christ” We all should desire to look more like Christ this book will be instrumental if the message is absorbed. Grab a few copies for yourself ,family and friends. Use Nice as a book club favourite or bible study just get the book.
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Ok. I finished the book and it really was pointless. It could have been 2 pages long. Endless babbling but that’s not nice.