Enjoy To Hell With The Hustle Conveyed By Jefferson Bethke Available As Publication

is a Christian book that focuses on how living a slower, more boring, quieter life can bring meaning, stillness, calmness, and anchor our lives.
I did not agree with every principle, but absolutely love the overall message and advice Make “no” your default, Build margin. Cultivate stillness and ritual. Its a fast read and Id recommend it if youre looking for a Christian perspective on reducing stress in your life.
Interesante el concepto, poco profundo y muy enfocado en la cultura estadounidense, Es rápida la lectura, así que vale la pena por el tiempo invertido! Probably a great book for its target audience of religious people.
No mention of the religious nature of the book on the cover, . . I would not have bought it if I had known, This is a timely reminder for us to slow the heck down!
Jefferson Bethke gently reminds us that Jesus lived a slow life, not a fastpaced, hectic, anxietyinducing, noise polluted life.
Jesus sought out solitude and quiet times for prayer and reflection, He wasn't afraid of what a quiet soul would reveal about him, or what crazy things His mind would think if He let it be still.

I especially appreciated the chapter on noise pollution, and what it's doing to our psyches,
This book is not just a call for us to slow down, it's the public outing of productivity as our new idol.

I could not agree more!
It is a faithbased book, but there's also a bunch of juicy science in here to prove the points, which is always fun! Y'all have got to stop publishing these privileged white dudes' brainstorms like they're actual texts.
I really enjoyed this book! I read it before lockdown/corona etc, but it was such a book for this time! Very easy to read and poignant/practical advice on how to put God at the centre of our busy lives and appreciate the practices He has put in place for our benefit such as sabbath.
Would definitely recommend, especially for this time! What an amazing book!! I truly couldnt put it down, It absolutely changed my mindset, and it is one I will be coming back to over and over again to refer to as I learn to say to hell with the hustle! Jeff Bethke is such a gifted author, and I believe speaks so much truth that our culture could learn from.
. . that really truly has the ability to change our culture if practiced, I will be reading this one again and again, . . and am beginning to implement some of these things on my own life and my familys life right away!
I received an Advanced Readers Copy from the publisher.
Jefferson Bethke believes that we Americans have bought a lie: work has become where “we derive our ultimate value and meaning.
” Work is the great American idol and we are its slaves, We celebrate those who hustle, who are grinders,

Bethke explains this kind of hustling: “When I say the word hustle in this book, I do not mean hustle as in working hard, diligently, and with focus i.
e. , your coach telling you to hustle for the ball, which is a good thing!, I mean hustle as it has culturally been adapted to mean in our online conversational lexicon: a mindset of do more, grind more, be more, accomplish more, neversleep, and all that the word tends to tell us to do right now.
” Bethke urges us to say To Hell with the Hustle,

All the while, the idol of hustle is chewing us up and spitting us out,
inmillennials would say they are currently experiencing some level of burnout,
percent of us millennials would say we are chronically lonely and say that we “always or sometimes feel that no one knows us well.
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percent of millennials and Gen Z currently say they experience disruptive anxiety or depression,

There has been a massive transformation in the nature of work over the past hundred years, “Derek Thompson noted one large change no one saw coming: how work itself and our view of it evolved, Work jumped from being a means of “material production” to being much more about identity production, In other words, work used to be about making things, Then all of a sudden, work was about making us, ”

Bethke believes there is a better way: Jesus way, He reminds us that, “Jesus was never in a hurry, Jesus was the fully human one, The prototype of all humanity, And I think we can pretty easily see that he was someone actively resisting cultural pressures, on many levels, Hustle isnt him. And if hustle isnt him, theres only one other place it could come from, Hell. The curse. The source of death. ”

Bethke believes that weve become goalobsessed when we ought to be concerned about our formation, Formation is the result of habituated practices and the result isnt tangible: it is the health of our soul, “Humans arent made,” Bethke asserts, “We are formed, ” What that means is that Jesus isnt just a repository of truth, a giver of goals, but rather that his way shows us how to be human.
In Bethkes words, “To follow Jesus we need to not just follow his teaching, but also follow his way, His process. His cadence. His demeanor. His spirit.

His very essence. ”

In the midst of wonderful technological innovation, from the light bulb to modern farming, to the internet, we have been promised health and happiness.
But is that what weve received Levels of depression have sky rocketed, our health has deteriorated, How much we sleep has shrunk,
Weve tried to fix our souls with information and found information wanting, But information wont fix us, We life in the age of information and of soul sickness: “Every two days we develop as much information as we did between the dawn of civilization and.
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Bethke takes us back to Augustine, who teaches us that, “We do not become just what we think.
We become what we desire, We are not shaped by facts, We are shaped by what we love, ” We change when what we love changes,

Christs final question to Peter, “Do you love me” then, is the question,

On top of information, our world offers freedom, But freedom doesnt free. Instead, its a cancer. When our freedom is not from or for Christ, it shackles us, Bethke asserts that “selfdiscovery in our culture is just another way to selfdestruction, ”

Many of these reforming practices are revolutionary in todays world, How do we incorporate silence and solitude into our lives in a world of constant noise Bethke says, “Silence today is so rare, so undervalued, that it is an act of resistance.
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Do we trust God with our time Do we trust God enough to stop being busy and rest Have we given God space to speak to us Do we dare risk the quiet and face boredom Maybe that is the very thing God needs.


“Americas mantra is, I produce, therefore I am, ” But God calls us to, like Mary, stop and sit at his feel, There is no better thing we could choose than this,

Bethke has taken his time digesting some heavyduty thinkers: Augustine, Charles Smith, James KA Smith, and others, and has delivered them on the bottom shelf.
Are you weary I encourage you to pick up this book and consider why that might be, I have a few quibbles along the way: I think Bethke tends to have a vision with the individual and nuclear family inhabiting too much of the space and the church too little, and Bethkes unusual life hes a writing and YouTuber is probably hard for many of us to translate into our own lives.
Bethkes vision of what a godly life of formation looks like might look very different from yours, but overall his wisdom is helpful for everyone of us.
We all ought to stop and consider what it looks like to care more about being formed into the image of Christ than

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thebeehive. live. This book had a good premise but failed to deliver,

I went into this book thinking it would be a thoughtprovoking read, needless to say, I was disappointed.


I will still recommend it as it might contain some interesting notions for other readers out there,

I would like to thank the Publishers, NetGalley, and the Author for sending me a copy of this book.
What was ironic is that I listened to all the podcasts about this book before I read it! I really enjoyed the concepts of slowing down, which what I have done the lastyears.
I was challenged on my idea of Sabbath and love the slow pace of aboutmiles an hour! very encouraging information and I loved the way he explained why politics has become so polarizing and so important in our culture.
And how social media has pulled out the worst in us! Since we are respsondint to technology and not a person, most of us have lost our empathy and kindness.
I just got attacked yesterday on Instagram by a "friend" and this was never any more obvious in this day and age.
I get it. Its a good message. There were two solid nuggets I found in it about us and Jesus, I think Ive heard the argument that North America lives too busy enough times that I didnt find many new teachings here.
Excellent!!! The authors take on how crazy and messed up weve become in todays world is spot on, and hell consistently point you back to Jesus as you figure out how to overcome living your life “in an overworked, overspent, and over connected world”! His last chapter on tribalism is worth the price of the book.
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