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The Anxiety Opportunity

How Worry Is the Doorway to Your Best Self

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What if instead of battling anxiety, you saw your worries as a doorway to spiritual transformation? Challenging the assumption that anxiety is the enemy, theologian, popular podcaster, and fellow sufferer of chronic anxiety Curtis Chang gives you a different framework for approaching fears. You will discover profound new ways of relating to Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and those you love.

Curtis Chang knows what it's like to view anxiety as a sin to overcome. He also knows how trying to get rid of anxiety through sheer faith or willpower usually leads to feelings of shame and frustration. After losing his job as a pastor due to debilitating anxiety, Curtis began the process of healing his heart. Combining years of personal experience, spiritual practice, and biblical study, Curtis discovered an alternative approach—one that sees anxiety as the path to our best selves in Christ.

For all of us who feel stuck in a never-ending war with worry, The Anxiety Opportunity offers:

  • Biblical wisdom about how anxiety can lead to rich spiritual growth
  • An invitation to examine our fears as a way of pursuing our calling
  • Simple practices for converting nervous energy into fruitful energy
  • Insights into why trying to avoid loss generates more anxiety
  • A renewed sense of peace as we realize what God can do through our fears
  • It's time to think differently about the relationship between anxiety and spiritual growth. This unique and profound exploration of one of the greatest epidemics of our time shows us how anxiety can be the very place we meet Jesus—and how channeling our anxiety can help us become more like him.

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      • Publisher's Weekly

        February 27, 2023
        Chang, executive director of the Christian outreach nonprofit Redeeming Babel, sets up anxiety as a source of spiritual growth in his earnest debut. Chang writes of being stressed as a latchkey kid who panicked about his parents getting home on time, and though he later harnessed his anxiety to succeed—landing him at Harvard—a breakdown in his 30s forced him to resign from his pastorship. After a religious reckoning, he realized that “for a Christian, anxiety is one of the most powerful opportunities” for spiritual transformation since “psychological discomfort” can spur growth. Chang explains that, while believers call on God to protect their reputation or finances in moments of anxiety, God doesn’t offer “quick fixes,” and as a result Christians should instead use these moments to deepen their faith through prayer and the study of scripture. Chang also suggests small ways to connect to Christ in stressful moments, such as spending time in nature, which is “filled with signs that God is constantly providing for his entire creation.” While Chang’s argument takes some time to come together, his perceptive descriptions of anxiety come across powerfully, and readers will appreciate his view that while anxiety can’t be eliminated, it can fuel positive spiritual change. Even the simply stressed believer will find something to gain.

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