Boastfully Broken
A Christian Drug Addict’s Fight for Freedom
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As Christians we have an obligation to be truthful and that means to be truthful about who we really are left to ourselves. You don’t have to be a drug addict to know and understand that concept. Why did God save you? Because you could contribute? Because you had so much potential? Because you were strong? Because you were successful? Because you were so awesome? Probably not. He saved you because you couldn’t contribute, because your potential would lead you to hell, because left to yourself you would crash and burn, eventually. I had to experience the reality of failure over and over again until I was given some insight from God. The weaknesses I kept hidden were destroying me on the inside and they weren’t going anywhere until I addressed them the way God intended us to. And unfortunately that’s where most people live their lives, on the brink of collapse or the brink of failure with no real answers for how to deal with what’s really eating them up on the inside. We do everything in our power to hold it together, to keep the racket going, making people believe that we are content with life when we really aren’t. It’s a big game and everyone is in on it, even within the walls of the church.
(1st paragraph of chapter 3)
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About the Book
Daily, we experience the reality we aren’t who we portray ourselves to be. We live in the brokenness of a fallen world with the affects taking root in the deepest parts of who we are. Rather than hide and mask the many weaknesses and frailties we experience as humans, there is another way.
In Boastfully Broken, author Blake Rispens highlights how a Christian who struggles with substance abuse began discovering what would really bring hope to a hopeless situation. While hiding weaknesses brings temporary relief, it only leads to continual failures down the road. True grace and power come from a seemingly counterintuitive idea: to be happy and boastful about what makes us weak.
Boastfully Broken challenges your deepest beliefs about who you are and who God says you are, and it discusses how to practically deal with those besetting weaknesses you’d rather not talk about. God’s way of overcoming your most intimate of weaknesses may be a surprise to you. And it’s in that space where you finally find what you’ve been looking for: a power and grace that specifically deals with your deepest brokenness.
About the Author
Blake Rispens earned a bachelor’s degree in pastoral studies from the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and has more than eighteen years of experience in addiction and recovery. He uses his experience of repeated failures, even as a Christian, as the catalyst for finding true freedom and grace from weakness and brokenness.