Redeeming Your Goals

The bestselling author of Redeeming Your Time offers a gospel-centric, ultra-practical playbook for pursuing your goals with, like, and for God.

Rather than treating God as a means to achieving your goals (like some authors do) or ignoring God altogether (like most authors do), Jordan Raynor presents a biblically-based roadmap to pursuing your goals with Christlike confidence.

If you’re unsure how to discern if your goals are aligned with God’s will, can’t figure out how to progress in your goals while swamped at work and home, or feel discouraged by goals you haven’t achieved, you’ll find freedom and clarity in these pages.

Because Jesus is the most successful person who ever lived—by the world’s standards and by God’s—Raynor has studied the four gospel biographies to better understand how Jesus pursued his goals. The result is seven biblical principles to guide you as you: 

1. Choose Redemptive Quests: Trade the common goals of recreation, retirement, renown, and retreat for Christ’s quest of redemption.
2. Baptize Your Imagination: Move from incremental to exponential vision for what God can accomplish through you.
3. Order Your Steps: Break big goals into a sequential plan of small steps pursued with singular focus.
4. Lighten Your Load: Achieve more by doing less and lightening the load on your soul, to-do list, and hurried calendar.
5. Trust God and Get Going: Work hard while trusting God with 100% of the results.
6. Maneuver the Messy Middle: Prayerfully discern when and how to quit, pivot, or persevere through the hardest part of pursuing your goals.
7. Measure Upward, Backward, and Forward: Evaluate your success in radically different ways than the world.

Each of the seven biblical principles is followed by a collection of optional practices—58 in total—to help you live out this timeless wisdom in a modern context.  

By offering a clear, gospel-centered framework you can return to again and again, this book will be the last book on goals you ever need—helping you pursue your goals with clarity instead of confusion, diligence instead of anxiety, and peace instead of striving.Jordan Raynor is a serial entrepreneur and bestselling author whose books, podcast, and devotionals have helped more than three million Christians in every country on earth connect the gospel to their work. Jordan serves as the executive chairman of Threshold 360, a venture-backed tech startup that has built the world's largest library of 360-degree virtual experiences of hotels, restaurants, and attractions. A highly sought-after speaker on the topic of faith and work, Raynor has spoken at Harvard University, SXSW, and many other events around the world. Jordan has twice been selected as a Google fellow and served in the White House under President George W. Bush. A sixth-generation Floridian, Jordan lives in Tampa with his wife and their three daughters.