Reset: Jesus Changes Everything - Softcover

Hall, Nick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1601429126 ISBN 13: 9781601429124

Verlag: PRH Christian Publishing, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Let Jesus Be Your Reset
 
Do you want to make a difference with your life, but you’re having trouble moving on from your past? “Follow me,” Jesus told his early followers, “and I’ll show you life as it was meant to be lived.”
 
Nick Hall reminds us that Jesus says the same thing to us today: “Come to me dirty, and I’ll clean you up. Come broken, and I’ll reassemble the parts. Come desperate, and I’ll replace pain with joy. Come to me with all your questions, all your confusion, all your fear. I can reset your purity, your self-image, your faith. Come.”
 
Reset is an invitation to a second chance—a do-over—to get beyond past missteps and failures and present confusion and discontent. Whether your struggle has been with such things as faith, hope, purity, habits, plans, self-image, or relationships, Nick Hall looks to God’s Word to address the traps we fall into and clarify the practical ways we can get out. 
 
Whatever has been holding you back, a reset is available to you by the grace of God. Say yes to the life you were meant to live. 

 


 

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Nick Hall has shared Jesus’s offer of a reset with millions around the world, with more than five hundred thousand publicly responding. He is the founder and chief communicator of the ministry PULSE and the leader behind the Reset Movement. Nick was the visionary behind the Together 2016 gathering on the National Mall, where close to a half-million people gathered together in unified prayer, worship, and a call for catalytic changes. Nick, his wife, Tiffany, and their children make their home in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Foreword 

In the 1970s, a movement known as Jesus People swept the nation as tens of thousands of hippies and drug addicts turned in their needles for Bibles, their skepticism for devotion, and their partying for praise. It was an amazing time in North American history as young people turned to faith in God en masse, causing even Time magazine to take note. “The Jesus Generation” was front-cover news, and an entire age group was positively changed. We have prayed for another such movement today. 

The apostle Paul once told his protégé Timothy, “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity” (1 Timothy 4:12, niv). If we are to see a move of God today, it will only come about as new leaders rise up and embody those words of the apostle Paul. People like you. People like Nick Hall. 

As you read Nick’s story in Reset, you can be confident that this is not simply the story of a gifted young man from North Dakota. It is also the story of God himself who is changing lives. Through PULSE and the message of Reset, Nick has shared the gospel across the country before live audiences of millions of students, and to date more than five hundred thousand of those young women and young men have publicly responded to Jesus. God is moving in this generation! We see it across the globe and right here in the United States. 

Our prayer for you, as you make your way through this book, is that your life would be the next one changed. Each one of us has given our life for the very message embodied in these pages, which is that Jesus really does change everything. Whatever you need reset in your life can be changed here and now, today, through the life-saving message of Jesus Christ. 

Joyfully and gratefully, 

Josh McDowell 
Luis Palau 
Ravi Zacharias 

 


Living the Dream 
Are you the guy from North Dakota doing the big youth events?” It was Billy Graham talking. As in, the Billy Graham. And he was talking to me. I thought I might pass out like a fangirl at a Justin Bieber concert. I was sitting in the living room of a living legend, and he—Dr. Graham—was making mention of PULSE, the ministry I had started. This had to be a dream, or a continuation of one, anyway. 

The dream started becoming reality for me just before my freshman year of college, and by the time I was a junior, it was consuming my life. I’d been part of a few campus clubs by then and had met other students who were trying their best to live for Jesus and wanted to have an impact at our school. In addition, I would often have conversations with friends after class and learn that whenever they surveyed the climate of our campus, they were just as disheartened as I was. It seemed students were drunk all the time, or high, or both. They were harming themselves and destroying their lives. A few of them even committed suicide. Depression and despair were rampant; something had to give. 

A few of those buddies and I decided to start meeting together every week to pray for our campus. We had no idea how our group was supposed 

The Setup 
to address the problems we were witnessing, but we believed that if we prayed and were willing to do what God said, he just might use us. 

During the same season, my English prof assigned our class a project: write a fifteen-page business proposal and prepare a fifteen-minute presentation for the class on some change we wanted to see on campus. She divided the twenty-four or so students into groups of four and left it up to the groups to determine their project. 

My school, North Dakota State University, was a pretty big party school. One of those designated party areas was the tailgating lot near the football stadium, but because there were more drinkers than the limited real estate could accommodate on game days, there had been a push for a bigger lot. My group for that English project decided this was its cause. The passionate plea? “Make Room for Our Beer!” I suppose the fight for justice takes on a variety of forms. 

Another group would appeal for more parking on campus and still another for an on-campus golf course. And while these causes were fine by me, I came away from that class feeling unsatisfied.
God had already given me a vision for seeing the campus changed by Jesus, and I wondered if forcing myself to formalize a specific strategy might help me actualize that goal. Instead of heading home after class, I waited for my professor to free up. 

When I asked her if it would be okay for me to do the assignment on my own instead of in the context of a group, she looked perplexed. “It would be a lot more work to do it that way,” she said, making sure I had counted the cost. “But if you’re convinced that’s what you want to do, then have at it. I’ll give you the same presentation slot—fifteen minutes—but I’ll need the same-length proposal from you . . . fifteen pages. Agreed?” 
I sat down at my keyboard that night wondering what I’d gotten myself into. “God, I could use some help here,” I prayed. “For starters, how do I even write a proposal?” 

There was only one other person in that English class who I knew was involved in a campus ministry, but I’d take any help I could get. I pulled her aside after class one day and explained what I was going to do my presentation on. I asked her to pray for me between now and then.
After all, I was going to be presenting a proposal to my classmates about reaching them. I could just hear myself: “Today, I want to talk to you about a big problem on our campus . . . you need Jesus!” Yeah, this was going to go over really well. 

As it turned out, I survived the presentation. Later, when I read through the email comments I received from my classmates (we all had to send in feedback to each group regarding its presentation), I felt a huge sense of relief. The responses blew me away. One said he hadn’t been to church in forever but that the presentation made him want to go the following weekend.

Another said she believed in the cause and wanted to help out. On and on the positive feedback went, and my heart stirred with each review. (Okay, there was one dissenter who wrote, “Religion is personal. Mind your own business, you bigot.” But hey, one out of twenty ain’t bad. Plus, there’s that verse that says to “count yourselves blessed every time people put you down or throw you out or speak lies about you to discredit me.”1 So, evidently, now I was blessed.) 

On the heels of that presentation, I took that proposal, titled “Pulse,” to the campus copy shop and told the workers to print as many copies as twenty bucks would buy, the amount of money I happened to have on me that day. I gave those copies to all of my friends leading ministries for the three schools in our area and said, “God has laid on my heart this goal for Christ to be at the pulse of our generation. Would you read this and pray about it? And then let’s talk.” 

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: PRH Christian Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1601429126
• ISBN 13: 9781601429124
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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