{"product_id":"9798893072570","title":"The Awakening Glossary: The Language of the Beautiful Gospel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is everything you've been told about your standing before God - the striving, the distance, the never quite enough - was built on a translation choice made 1,600 years ago?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 400 AD, Jerome translated the Greek New Testament into Latin - and a single word changed everything. The Greek metanoia - transformation of perception - became the Latin paenitentia. Penance. Sorrow. Try harder. The one choice shaped sixteen centuries of Western Christianity. The text never changed. The translation did. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReligion hands you a loop: perform to earn love, manage sin to preserve your standing, and call the exhaustion faithfulness. Awakening breaks the loop. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are not broken needing repair. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are not separated from God waiting to be found. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are asleep to a union that has always existed - and you are about to wake up. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMetanoia - isn't repentance. It's restored perception. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTetelestai - isn't the endpoint. It's the starting line. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHamartia - isn't moral crime. It's forgetting who you are. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApollumi - isn't destruction. It's the lost son finding his way home. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver 160 times Paul writes the two words: in Christ. Not toward. Not working for. In Him. Already. Now. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce you see it, you cannot unsee it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis glossary is the language of awakening: compact, portable, and designed to accelerate your awakening. Bring it to your small group. Hand it out at a conference. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReturn to it daily. Let your soul remember what your spirit already knows. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Awakening Series is one thing at its core: a continued revelation of the infinite goodness of God - and the closeness with Him you were always made for. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spirit Media Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48219597570289,"sku":"9798893072570","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9798893072570_p0.jpg?v=1779826553","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9798893072570","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}