Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the Real World

Synopsis

When Lasalle Street Church In Chicago Received An Unexpected Windfall, Its Leaders Made The Wild, Counterintuitive Decision To Give It Away. Each Church Member Received A Check For $500 With The Instruction To Go Out And Do Good In God's World. In Love Let Go Readers Witness How A Church Community Was Transformed By The Startling Truth That Money Can Buy Happiness -- When We Give It Away. Laura Sumner Truax And Amalya Campbell Show How This Radical Generosity Shaped Their Community, Exploring The Reverberating Impact Of Each Act Of Generosity, And Ultimately Revealing How Lasalle's Faith-filled Risk Snowballed Into A Movement Beyond Itself. Throughout The Book Truax And Campbell Probe The Connection Of Human Flourishing To Generosity And Offer Tools To Help Us Reclaim Our Giver Identities And Live Generously -- To Love And Let Go. I. Our Generous Nature. Wired To Be Givers -- The Plane Of Generosity -- Abundance, Not Scarcity -- Ii. Stumbling Toward Generosity. Identity Intact -- Transactions And Interactions -- The Saturation Point -- Iii. The Generous Life. Listening Inside Out -- Listening Outside In -- Reframing Thankfulness -- Letting Love Go. Laura Sumner Truax & Amalya Campbell. Includes Bibliographical References.