Present Tense

Present Tense is not a grammar book but a personal and incisive look at what lies at the heart of Mennonite (and Christian) living. Learn how practice makes perfect, how patience brings peace, how prayer and politics are present in play. (And that sentence refers to all eight chapters.) Drawing on his own experience in the church, as a journalist and on his wide reading, Houser explores what it means to be Mennonite. He defines spirituality as following the Spirit of God and calls readers to exercise "Gelasseinheit," or self-surrender, imitating Jesus¿ self-emptying in Philippians 2.