How do I cultivate a life that is purposeful, deep, and fruitful? What are the commitments, critical risks, and personal practices that open me to God's grace? How can I discover the spiritual life and the difference God intends for me to make in the world?<BR><BR>Radical Hospitality. Passionate Worship. Intentional Faith Development. Risk-Taking Mission and Service. Extravagant Generosity.<BR><BR>Five Practices of Fruitful Living provides an honest, practical, and winsome guide to the spiritual journey. By repeating and deepening certain fundamental personal practices, we cooperate with God in our spiritual growth. These Five Practicesùto receive God's love, to love God in return, to grow in Christ, to serve others, and to give ourselves fullyùas we attend to them and develop them, help us settle ourselves in God and become instruments of God's grace.<BR><BR>Following Christ will change your heart; and through you, God will change the world.<BR><BR>Robert Schnase offers an outstanding, practical, and inspiring look at the practices of discipleship. Read it and be encouraged and blessed.-Adam Hamilton, author of 24 Hours That Changed the World<BR><BR>If you want to become serious about living a faithful and fruitful life, this is the book for you. In Five. Practices of Fruitful Living, Robert Schnase takes us to the practice field of daily life and guides us in the reception, understanding, and investing of God's grace in daily living.-Rueben P. Job, author of Three Simple Rules