I have yet to read a book by John Ortberg that I didn't love, and this is no exception. His signature style of humor and story mixed with profound depth and theology make this book easy to read, yet you keep coming back to the pages to reread them.
Ortberg's premise that the Kingdom of God should affect how we live today is not a new one for me - but he incorporates it with Discipleship and the Christian life in a unique and powerful way! Highly, highly recommend

When I was young, I thought my eternal life would begin once my physical life ended.

But as I got older and read more and listened more, I realized that once I crossed over from death to life in the spiritual sense---and I have---my eternal life has already begun.

This new book by John Ortberg fleshes out the concept of eternal life.

"Eternal life isn’t just about the future. We can have it now. It’s not just about there. We can have it here."

In a sentence, eternal life is knowing God. Not just knowing about him, but knowing him. (Well, as much as we can with our limited capacities.)

Ortberg explains:

"Jesus—and the entire New Testament, for that matter—defines eternal life only once, with great precision, and in a way that has been largely lost in our day: 'This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent' (John 17:3, NRSV). Eternal Life = Knowing God."

Once our eternal life has begun, even physical death can't stop it.

I recommend this book if you want to rethink salvation and the journey of walking with Jesus.

Here are some of my favorite quotes from this book.

"Heaven does not contain God; God contains heaven."

"Everybody has a gospel. This is Jesus’ gospel: God is present here and now. God is acting."

"Bringing up there down here is God’s project."

"Every time you are in conflict with someone, when you want to hurt them, gossip about them, avoid them, but instead you go to them and seek reconciliation and forgiveness, the Kingdom is breaking into this world."

"Salvation is not about what God wants to do to you; it’s about what God wants to do in you."

"Our greatest need is not to be saved from what might happen to us but to be saved from what might happen in us; not from where we might end up but from who we might become."

My thanks to Net Galley for the review copy of this book.