Escaping Escapism

We have made escapism a contact sport. We have so many devices and distractions to keep us busy from an involved life. This book is easy to read, full of self-deprecating humour with plenty of practical examples of people like you and me. Reading a book on escaping escapism is the easy bit, but Dave explores the wisdom contained in Scripture and a relationship with God to help us in our daily lives. This is a hopeful and encouraging book. | What a fine and useful book! It is a really helpful combination of contemporary perception, Biblical insight, practical advice, and an attractive and compelling style. I had not realised my own brilliant escapist ability until I read this book: and it also gave me Biblical and Christ-centred hope! | Refreshingly honest and regularly funny, Dave helps us to develop Christ-like, everyday courage by exposing our escapist hearts to who Jesus really is. However you might be seeking to escape from reality this wonderful book will help you return with real joy to the Good News that we so often fail to let determine every part of our lives. | At heart, I'm an escapologist. I run from things that are hard because I don't like failure, unpopularity or pain. If you're anything like me this book is a fantastic place to start a journey of change. It is short, accessible and full of hope. Don't find an excuse to put off reading it! | This is a great book, filled with moving and practical meditations on the person and work of Jesus. Grounded in Scripture (and the author’s own testimony), it helps us think through how and why we try to escape – and what gospel change looks like. | As someone who struggles with passivity in leadership, I needed this book. Dave Griffith-Jones not only coins an important new term for our struggles—for the disobedience that masks itself as risk-avoidance—but is a gospel-saturated, compassionate call to repent of our inaction and courageously live out the life of Christ. | We all put off doing difficult things. Escaping Escapism by Dave Griffith-Jones is a hope-filled, hard-hitting book that sets out to show howknowing and trusting Jesus enables us to do hard things rather than escape from them. “It shows us how a bigger, better picture of Jesus will transform our lives,” says the blurb, and who can quarrel with that? The message is that our panic and tendency to avoid difficult things can be replaced with joyful, get-things-done confidence and proactivity when we depend on God's power. | Dave is Team Rector in Drypool, east Hull, UK. Before that, he pastored in Toxteth, Liverpool. He is married to Helen, and they have four children. Dave is a regular contributor to the Explore daily Bible-reading series.