All Is Well? Finding God In Messy Families

When someone asks how your family is doing, most of us run a quick calculation: do I tell the truth, or do I just say “fine”? Joseph Grenny wants to give us a third option, one he first offered from the Restore stage a couple of years ago: All is well. Not because nothing’s wrong, but because messes were always part of the plan.

That idea is now the heart of Joseph’s new book, All Is Well? In this conversation, he draws on his years with The Other Side Academy to talk about loving someone whose choices you can’t control. Today, we explore Jacob 5 and what it means to go to “the nethermost part of the vineyard,” and how to trust that God may use someone else to reach and heal the person you love. 

And as Christmas cards start arriving, Joseph suggests that the twinge we feel looking at a picture-perfect family is worth paying attention to. It may be showing us where we’ve turned the gospel into an idol—a status system, something to measure ourselves against. And that what’s truer is that our messes aren't evidence of failure. but "atonement workshops" where we learn to love imperfect people.

All Is Well? is available November 16th.

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