Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise
by Bill Hybels

Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise
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Author: Bill Hybels
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2010-02-01
ISBN: 0877849455
Number of pages: 113
Publisher: InterVarsity Press

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Book Review: A Good Read
Summary: 4 Stars

From the time we are young children we are taught to behave ourselves in public. We quickly learn what behaviour is and is not acceptable when the eyes of our families and friends are on us. But who we are in public is not an accurate guage of our character. Our true character is shown when we are alone and no one is looking. It is at these times that we display our true colours.

In Who You Are When No One's Looking, Bill Hybels outlines several character traits that he believes are becoming endangered in our culture and outlines ways we can incorporate these traits into our lives. The traits he focuses on are courage, discipline, vision, endurance and love. Love is so important that he dedicates half of the book to it, dividing it into several kinds of love, namely tender love, tough love, sacrificial love and radical love.

Though this book does not arrive at any ground-shaking conclusions, it is well worth reading and would make a fantastic 10-part Bible study. My only real complaint would be a few sentences that undermine Reformed theology ("God loves prisoners, homosexuals and bag ladies as much as he loves stock brokers, dental students and seminarians.)" (p. 62) Of course such beliefs are commonplace in the evangelical world and, frankly, not worth getting too upset about.

Summary of Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

We are all at our best when it counts. But what are we like when no one's looking? That's where character comes in--being consistent even when it doesn't seem to matter. Courage. Discipline. Vision. Endurance. Love. These character qualities are quickly becoming endangered. All too often we hear of marriages falling apart, governments lying, businesses cheating and scandals rocking the church. But with God's guidence and strength, we can maintain character that lasts despite temptations and troubles. Features & Benefits

* features newly-designed cover art

* offers practical advice on building Christian lives of character

* written by a well-known pastor and author, Bill Hybels

* over 300,000 copies in print!

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