Good To Great In God's Eyes Book Summary

Good To Great In God’s Eyes, by Chip Ingram is an extremely good book with a tremendous amount of challenges and different perspectives on the bible and just life in general. When I first came across this title on the list of books that was given to us, I thought that this book was going to be geared more to leadership. I am not saying that the bible has nothing to do with leadership or that Ingram did not talk about leadership at all, but that was not the main topic of this novel. This novel spoke to me and challenges me where I am today. This Ingram writes about the ten practices great Christians have in common, which are they think great thoughts, read great books, pursue great people, dream great dreams, pray great prayers, take great risks, make great sacrifices, enjoy great moments, empower great people, and develop great habits. Ingram writes about his past and present experiences throughout each of the chapters. These experiences really catch …show more content…
The reason being is once someone finds a great person to pour into them or as Ingram call them, your Paul. Then the Paul will encourage them to dream God size dreams. The Paul will get them to see that God is bigger than any dream that they could ever come up with. Which then pushes the Timothy to pray greater prayers. It will force them to have a deeper and more intimate relationship with The Lord. With tougher prayers The Lord will begin to challenge the Timothy and make that Timothy to take greater risk and make greater sacrifices. Forcing them to take what ever they hold dear to them and give it up to show that The Lord is all that the Timothy needs. With this the Timothy cannot take life for granted and miss out on the joys of life. Also do not forget to pour into another Timothy creating a Barnabas to keep you accountable and that will help you create better habits and growing deep into a relationship with your Barnabas and The