The Secret of Significance
By Robert McGee
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How much time have you wasted trying to gain the approval of others? Have you given up on experiencing God's complete acceptance of you? Based on the best-selling The Search for Significance, The Secret of Significance will take you on a self evaluation to see if you are in fact running your life on the performance treadmill and how you can experience the solution to the fear of rejection by finding complete acceptance in Christ. This accessible book offers true stories, biblical references, and advice from best-selling author and counselor Robert McGee on how you can experience the secret to lasting significance.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I think maybe I would have gotten more out of this book at a certain time in my life. For what it is, it is very good. The theology is mostly good (with some important slips, but overall it is good), and many of the points excellent.I would recommend it to others who are struggling with certain image issues, but for others a summary would work just fine. I liked the focus on Christ here, which puts this book above almost all of its competitors.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is part of my collection that really focuses in on Biblical Commentary more than anything else (including some well known authors in the theological world). All of these books haven't been read cover to cover, but I've spent a lot of time with them and they've been helpful in guiding me through difficult passages (or if I desire to dig deeper).
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The Secret of Significance - Robert McGee
TO MY WIFE,
Marilyn,
AND MY CHILDREN,
Faith,
Morgan,
AND
Brian
CONTENTS
INRTODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. Is This Book for You?
CHAPTER 2. Our Destiny
CHAPTER 3. Craving for Acceptance
CHAPTER 4. The Salvation Solution
CHAPTER 5. Defeating False Beliefs
INTRODUCTION
After years of explaining the principles found in this little book, I wrote what became known as the silver bullet.
The book had a silver cover and was called His Image Bearer. For all of its shortcomings, it was wonderfully accepted and over time became the basis of The Search for Significance.
Tens of thousands of people have accepted Christ and found a new lease on life as they have read The Search for Significance. However, there were some insights from the first little silver book that just didn’t make it into The Search for Significance. This book brings those insights to light and also presents the other principles from a different perspective. If you have read The Search for Significance, you will learn much here while at the same time recognizing the basic principles. If you have not read The Search for Significance, I really believe God will do something in your life that is beyond what you could ever imagine as you read these pages. Those who have read both His Image Bearer and The Search for Significance tell me that as they were reading each of those books they had a similar experience: God revealed to them how much He loved them. My prayer is that you will have the same experience as you read this book.
ONE
Is This Book for You?
For much of my life, I experienced failure and rejection as if a little man who carried a hammer lived somewhere inside me. When failure or rejection—or usually even the prospect of either—came upon my horizon, the little man would begin pounding away. This soon taught me to avoid situations and people that might create an opportunity for another hammering session.
After becoming a counselor, I concluded that God had a solution for this reaction to failure and rejection. I realized that almost all emotional and relational problems, as well as the identity we assign to ourselves, have rejection and failure as major facets. If God did not speak to these problems, which are universally experienced by all mankind, then what else could God have missed? I did not know what His answer was, but I did know that He had to have provided a key.
The question is, How do you handle failure and rejection? If any of the following seem to fit you, this book is indeed for you:
Almost everyone in your world thinks you are wonderful, but that’s not enough.
You ruminate about the few who aren’t as impressed with you as they should be.
Sometimes those few are people you are closest to, or they could even be complete strangers.
When you look into the eyes of others and find yourself wanting, you feel a combination of fear, anger, and a haunting sense of the lack of value in your person and maybe even in your life.
You find yourself trying to gain people’s approval like a beaten dog doing tricks for his master.
You make decisions primarily to please others. You can’t seem to say no to anyone.
You may be trying to please those who have never shown a sign that they could be pleased, but you can’t seem to stop trying.
Some of these people you don’t even like, may even hate, but you still try to gain their approval.
Sometimes you call people up, knowing you are going to be put down. After the conversation you complain about them as though you weren’t expecting what just happened.
You may even be trying to please dead people—people who when they were alive gave you a standard that you never met, but you’re still trying.
You have done a great number of things well, but the failures you’ve had seem to dominate your thinking.
Your success seems to fade with the setting sun.
The more you succeed, the higher the bar is raised in order for you to continue succeeding.
You find yourself limiting what you do to keep from failing.
You go through your day checking