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Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will Paperback – April 1, 2014

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Why won’t God reveal his special will for my life already?

Because he doesn’t intend to... So says Kevin DeYoung in this punchy book about making decisions the godly way.

Many of us are listening for the still small voice to tell us what’s next instead of listening to the clear voice in Scripture telling us what’s now. God does have a will for your life, but it is the same as everyone else’s: Seek first the kingdom of God. And quit floundering. 

With pastoral wisdom and tasteful wit, DeYoung debunks unbiblical ways of understanding God’s will and constructs a simple but biblical alternative: live like Christ. He exposes the frustrations of our waiting games and unfolds the freedom of finding God’s will in Scripture and then simply doing it. 

This book is a call to put down our Magic 8-Balls and pick up God’s Word. It’s a call to get wisdom, follow Christ, be holy, and live freely. To just do something.

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"God told me that He wants you to read this book. Actually, that is one of the many mistaken notions about God's will that Kevin DeYoung wants to correct."
Collin Hansen, Editorial Director, The Gospel Coalition

"DeYoung explains so well what Oswald Chambers wrote a century ago, 'Trust God and do the next thing.' Sadly, our wrongheaded search for the elusive 'will of God' often prevents us from doing both. This book will help correct the problem."
Gerald L. Sittser, Professor of Theology, Whitworth University  

"I try to keep a stack of these handy because it’s my easy-to-read, practical, go-to help for people discerning God’s will for their lives."
Thabiti Anyabwile, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman 

"One of the best books on guidance I've read."
Mark Dever, Senior Pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church

"False understandings of God's will infect so much of popular Christianity. The church desperately needs a rescue from this confusion. Thankfully, Kevin DeYoung offers that much needed rescue in 'Just Do Something.' Live the title to God's glory, but read this excellent book first."
Albert Mohler, President, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

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Hyper-spiritual approaches to finding God’s will don’t work. It’s time to try something new: give up.

Pastor and author Kevin DeYoung counsels Christians to settle down, make choices, and do the hard work of seeing those choices through.

Too often, he writes, God’s people tinker around with churches, jobs, and relationships, worrying that they haven’t found God’s perfect will for their lives. Or—even worse—they do absolutely nothing, stuck in a frustrated state of paralyzed indecision, waiting…waiting…waiting for clear, direct, unmistakable direction.

But God doesn’t need to tell us what to do at each fork in the road. He’s already revealed His plan for our lives: to love Him with our whole hearts, to obey His Word, and after that, to do what we like.

No need for hocus-pocus. No reason to be directionally challenged. Just do something.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Moody Publishers; New edition (April 1, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0802411592
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0802411594
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.35 x 7 inches
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Kevin DeYoung is the senior pastor of Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, NC. He has been preaching full time since the age of 26, including thirteen years at University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan. He also serves as an Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte.

Kevin finds great delight in reading and studying and is himself the author of more than twenty books. He holds a Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and received his Ph.D. at the University of Leicester where his studies in Early Modern History focused on one of America’s founders, the Scottish presbyterian/theologian, John Witherspoon.

Kevin and his wife Trisha are happily married and have nine children. While he is often consumed with the joy of parenting, he enjoys finding time to work out by running, swimming, and biking.

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I love the plain spoken, common sense information in this book! No fluff and straight to the point! If you are like me and you've tried to make figuring out God's Will for your life hard or difficult work I think you'll get as much out of this book as I did.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Practical and helpful discussion re: honoring God with your decision making
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2024
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Wonderful, practical guide for resting in God’s sovereignty and providence as you seek to honor Him with your life’s decisions. I highly recommend it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bought 8 copies for all my friends
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I LOVE this book. As an ambitious, 20s individual, it was recommended to me by a mentor in helping me find God’s will. It was SO encouraging and empowering. Bought it for all my friends. It’s also a short read, so non-readers don’t be afraid.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book! If you're looking for God's Will in your life - buy it!
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I've been a Christian most of my life and have never really rebelled or anything like that. I've had quite a few times when I was really looking for God's will. Times when I was changing jobs, ministries, considering a major move, etc. I found earlier in my life (I'm in my 40's) that God never really gave me a bright flashing neon sign. In fact, in the last decade my wife and I really felt about a particular decision that God was saying "do what you want to do, because I know you'll be serving Me wherever you are". That was comforting on the one hand, but also not what I wanted. I wanted God to tell me what to do, LOL.

This book really lays out a Biblical foundation for making decisions in life and considering what truly is the will of God.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (4.25 Stars) A sanctified kick in the pants to take action & get moving.
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This short, yet tremendously helpful and practical book is about God’s will. It may also be the sanctified kick-in-the-pants some folks need to jolt them out of a fruitless cycle of indecision and hesitancy. How so? Because the reader will learn a biblical approach to discerning God’s will for their life. With said approach what is evident is that there is a bias toward action; as a result (as the title suggests), the reader is compelled to “take some responsibility, make a decision, and just do something.” This advice is given cognizant that many in Christian circles believe that wavering between opinions and wandering through life are marks of spiritual sensitivity. Sadly, meandering cowardice has been spiritualized so that it feels like piety instead of passivity. This is not a biblical approach to Christ-like living as DeYoung makes clear that nowhere in the Bible will you find a command that Christians figure out God’s secret will before doing something. So, on the one hand, we are free to ask God for wisdom. On the other hand, the Lord never burdens us with the task of divining His will of direction ahead of time. This advice is especially helpful for our decisions that have lasting consequences (e.g. work and marriage) as well as all the multitude of non-moral decisions we make in everyday life.

Yes, God has a plan for all of His children, but He is not going to tell us that plan before it unfolds. What God does do is give us brains, and a Book full of guidance so that we can take risks for Him. Living God’s will is living a life saturated in wisdom which compels us not to ask to know the future but instead how we are to live right now according to His Word. So, “just do something” means living for God with the confidence that you are walking in the will of God.
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M. Fowler
5.0 out of 5 stars Great little book!
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2024
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Great practical book that teaches God is not going to tell you your destiny, but His Word does tell us His will for our lives! Enjoyable book to read.
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AJ628
5.0 out of 5 stars simple approach with the right amount of scripture and wisdo
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2024
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There’s a book called Decision Making and the Will of God by Gary Friesen that covers much the same topic as DeYoung’s book but couldn’t be more different. Friesen’s book is more academic in a sense-although not exactly an academic book by most standards. DeYoung, however, has taken a perplexing topic and made it very approachable and down-to-earth. Perhaps it’s so approachable because, if you’re at all familiar with the common view of trying to discern God’s secret will for your life, this approach DeYoung discusses is far more common sense, to say nothing of being more biblical. It is simple in all the right ways.

I would gladly hand this book to anyone in my orbit I sense might need it. If you’re looking for a deep-dive on this topic with lots of cites, look elsewhere. (Maybe the Friesen book I mentioned, if it’s still in print.) But if you need something genuinely useful in sorting out how to discern God’s will, grab this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Solid resource. Offers challenging perspectives.
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2023
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Loved his humor, appreciated his insight. It is interesting that he spoke of the conventional perspective on the will of God, as if he grew up hearing it like I did.

Lovingly truthful, yet graciously challenging. Great resource for young people and old people alike.

Definitely recommend it.
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Tyler
5.0 out of 5 stars Practical Approach that challenges and enlightens
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2023
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This was a book we used for a Bible study, and it was a great conversation starter and encouraged deeper thinking about how to make decisions and think about the will of God. Highly recommend.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Useful at the time
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Will probably hand to friends when they are making big decisions
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5.0 out of 5 stars WOW - Helped me loads
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This simple little book was pack with punch. It was the kick in the butt I needed to get my perspective sorted out and realize that there is no bulls eye I need to hit in order to figure out life. HIGHLY recommend for anyone struggling with making decisions or working through "God's will for your life".
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Leonardo Rocha
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente livro
Reviewed in Brazil on January 18, 2019
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Superou minhas expectativas! Gostei bastante, o autor escreve bem então a leitura é tranquila, você consegue entender muito bem cada argumento dele. Além disso, ele faz um bom uso das passagens bíblicas (tem um bom número de passagens, mas poderia até ter usado mais)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Super hilfreich!
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Kevin DeYoung erörtert sehr präzise das Problem der heutigen Generation und hilft uns den Fokus auf den Willen Gottes für unser Leben zu setzen. Was ist Gott am wichtigsten für mein Leben? Welche Person soll ich heiraten? Und wie sieht es mit der Berufswahl aus?
Ein Buch das biblische Antworten liefert und dabei ganz nüchtern ist.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring.
Reviewed in India on November 2, 2019
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Inspiration for those who are hesitating to go after their dreams.
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