Don't Follow Your Heart
Boldly Breaking the Ten Commandments of Self-Worship
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Why chasing after expressive individualism, experiences, and desires always fails to deliver on its promise of happiness.
Today we are told to be true to ourselves, look within for answers, and follow our hearts. But when we put our own happiness first, we experience record-breaking levels of aimlessness, loneliness, depression, and anxiety. Self-centeredness always fails to deliver the fulfillment we're seeking.
In Don't Follow Your Heart, Thaddeus Williams debunks the "ten commandments of self-worship," which include popular propaganda, like:
- #liveyourbestlife: Thou shalt always act in accord with your chief end—to glorify and enjoy yourself forever.
- #followyourheart: Thou shalt obey your emotions at all costs.
- #yolo: Thou shalt pursue the rush of boundary-free experience.
Williams builds a case that this type of self-worship is not authentic, satisfying, or edgy. Instead, its rehashing what is literally humanity's oldest lie. He calls on a new generation of mavericks and renegades, heretics who refuse to march in unison with the self-obsessed herd. With a fascinating blend of theology, philosophy, science, psychology, and pop culture, Williams points us to a life beyond self-defeating dogmas to a more meaningful life centered on Someone infinitely more interesting, satisfying, and awesome than ourselves.
Featuring stories from Carl Trueman, Joni Eareckson Tada, J.P, Moreland, Josh McDowell, Alisa Childers, and more.
"Following the herd is leading our generation off a cliff. Maybe a little heresy can do us a lot of good." —Collin Hansen
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: A Misfit’s Guide to Sinning Boldly
- 1. Liveyourbestlife: Thou Shalt Always Act In Accord With Your Chief End—To Glorify and Enjoy Yourself Forever
- 2. Okboomer: Thou Shalt Never Be Outdated, But Always On the Edge of the New
- 3. Followyourheart: Thou Shalt Obey Your Emotions At All Costs
- 4. Betruetoyourself: Thou Shalt Be Courageous Enough to Defy Other People’s Expectations
- 5. Youdoyou: Thou Shalt Live Your Truth and Let Others Live Theirs
- 6. Yolo: Thou Shalt Pursue the Rush of Boundary-Free Experience
- 7. Theanswersarewithin: Thou Shalt Trust Yourself, Never Letting Anyone Oppress You With the Antiquated Notion of Being a “Sinner.”
- 8. Authentic: Thou Shalt Invent and Advertise Thine Own Identity
- 9. Livethedream: Thou Shalt Force the Universe to Bend to Your Desires
- 10. Loveislove: Thou Shalt Celebrate All Lifestyles and Love-Lives As Equally Valid
- Epilogue: A Heretic’s Manifesto
- Original Signatories
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index