{"id":1120,"date":"2016-05-24T12:32:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T18:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickduffel.com\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2016-05-24T12:32:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T18:32:51","slug":"audiobook-reviewstrong-and-weak-by-andy-crouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"AUDIOBOOK REVIEW:Strong and Weak by Andy Crouch"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1123 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/9781633895904-1.jpg?resize=264%2C264\" alt=\"9781633895904\" width=\"264\" height=\"264\" loading=\"lazy\">Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing<\/em> by Andy Crouch is an outstanding book.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of those rare books that brings many dissimilar concepts together with one simple, yet powerful idea.\n<p>In <em>Strong and Weak<\/em>, Crouch uses a 2\u00d72 diagram\u2014a popular idea framework in business books these days\u2014to represent the tension between authority and vulnerability.\u00a0 The four options that emerge: Withdrawing, Exploiting, Suffering, and Flourishing (with the latter as the ultimate goal) are applied to a variety of subjects.\u00a0 Crouch touches on leadership, team dynamics, parenting, poverty, mental illness, disabilities, the Incarnation of Christ, tyranny, missions, law enforcement, race, and more.\u00a0 Despite applying his \u201cstrong verses weak\u201d framework to so many subjects, the book lands a single powerful punch: authority verses vulnerability is a false choice, and the only way to true flourishing is to embrace both at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Couch is a straightforward, yet interesting writer.\u00a0 He holds his Christianity with a kind of curious heft; appreciating its weightiness, but honest in his examination of its more mysterious qualities.\u00a0 He reminds me of a Tim Keller or a CS Lewis in his cultural awareness and elegant command of logic.\u00a0 A skeptic could read this book and benefit.\u00a0 His position as executive editor of Christianity Today might lend itself to the editorial quality of his writing, but the reader will also detect strong notes of mercy pointing to his work with the Equitas Group and International Justice Mission.\u00a0 The vision of Christianity that Crouch presents is beautiful and compelling.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend this book for really anyone, but I recommend it especially for leaders, Christian or not.\u00a0 Leaders, we need to live out the message of this book, which is really the example that Jesus himself gave us.\u00a0 The world would be a better place as a result.<\/p>\n<p>P.J. Ochlan does a great job on the narration of the audiobook version.\u00a0 I have reviewed one other book that he narrated, and I hope to hear more from him in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Please Note: This audiobook was gifted as a part of the Christian Audio Reviewers Program in exchange for my unbiased review of this work. This has in no way influenced my opinion or review of this work.\u00a0 More information can be found about this and other Christian audiobooks at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/christianaudio.com\/\">christianaudio.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing by Andy Crouch is an outstanding book.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of those rare books that brings many dissimilar concepts together with one simple, yet powerful idea. In Strong and Weak, Crouch uses a 2\u00d72 diagram\u2014a popular idea framework in business books these days\u2014to represent&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=1120\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AUDIOBOOK REVIEW:Strong and Weak by Andy Crouch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5,7,12],"tags":[15,32,35,75,84,85,101,111,113,114,116,150,157,168,176,184,188,198],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-2","category-christianaudio-com","category-leadership-2","category-reviews","tag-52-books","tag-books","tag-business","tag-fear","tag-god","tag-gospel","tag-ideas","tag-jesus","tag-leaders","tag-leadership","tag-love","tag-reading","tag-reviews-2","tag-servant-leadership","tag-social-justice","tag-success","tag-teamwork","tag-vision"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EHHr-i4","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}