Those lies are nothing to the confidence, freedom, and clarity of purpose that come with knowing what is actually essential about you. And the answer to that question is at once less and more than what you are hoping for. Christians love the idea that self-expression is the essence of a beautiful person, but that's a lie, too.
With trademark humor and no nonsense practicality, Rachel Jankovic explains the fake story of the self, starting with the inventions of a supremely ugly man named Sartre (rhymes with "blart"). And we—men and women, young and old—have bought his lie of the "best self," with terrible results.
Thankfully, that's not the end of our story. You Who: Why You Matter and How to Deal with It takes the identity question into the nitty gritty details of everyday life. Here's the first clue: Stop looking inside yourself, and start planting flags of everyday faithfulness. In Christianity, the self is always a tool and never a destination.
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"Are you a person? Do you breathe? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you should read this book as quickly as you can get your hands on it. Reading this book was like being given a cup of cold water on a hot day." -Summer Jaeger, Sheologians Blog & Podcast
"Rachel Jankovic says most Christian women are influenced more than they realize by prevailing existential self-love messages. InYou Who? Why You Matter and How to Deal With It... she identifies the un-Biblical philosophies of personhood and selfactualization that have seeped into the culture and church, fueling the widespread believe-in-yourself mantra, along with deceptions about abortion, feminism, and gender identity. Jankovic aims to define a Christian view of identity, one that puts to death the sinful self and receives new life in Christ.... I found grace spelled out in the pages, and a timely message for women and teenage girls" -WORLD Magazine
"Rachel's contention is that we have no practical idea of what makes us who we are, because we have absorbed too much of the world and its philosophies. As we grow up we adopt titles of identities that have either been thrust on us or that we take on ourselves. "Carefree grrrrl," or "The Fashionista" or "The Nerd" might satisfy for the moment, but they are a lie." -Elizabeth Prata, The End Time blog
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Rachel Jankovic is a wife and mother of seven children. She is heavily involved with the Christ Church Ladies' Bible Reading Challenge, and she is author of Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches and Fit to Burst, two books on Christian motherhood. Stay tuned as she continues to call out idols of the self on her Facebook page and Instagram account @lizziejank.
Get a crash course on human existence, and then have it applied in very practical and humbling ways.
10/10 recommend it!
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Jason M. Gates
Definitely worth the read
The most revelatory aspect was how the author showed how the current feminist stance on abortion, in the face of a mountain of evidence that human life begins at conception, is naught but a logical outflow of their existentialist foundational assumptions. That explanation alone makes this book well worth the investment, though there's plenty more where that came from.
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Alison S Hendricks
Worldview shifter
I did this as a study with a group of teen/twenties young ladies. We are having a good time playing “spot the lie” with the culture and it pushed them into studying John without the guilt trip. So good.
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Emily Hansen
You Who? Why You Matter and How to Deal With It
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Loblolly
Every teenager, not just girls should read
I have read it and it's an eye opener. It points out so many things in our society that are influenced by some horrible people in the 1700's. Most of it are lies about females. Really everyone should read this book as we battle to take back our world. I actually bought these books for a book study my grown daughter was doing with some teenagers in our community. In a way this book is a lead into an upcoming Canon release "Eve in Exile ".
