' "Spirituality" may be possible for a single, old, financially stable contemplative who has nothing to do but pray,' says Mike Yaconelli, 'But for people like you and me, with kids and mortgages and jobs and car payments, probably not.'
There are many obstacles to the kind of spirituality we feel we ought to have: not enough time, feelings of inadequacy, lethargy, over-expectation, fear ... But we will be surprised to discover that true, Godly spirituality is not quite as inaccessible as we once thought.
Mike Yaconelli writes from the heart, with humour and humanity, and bears favourable comparison with Philip Yancey and Richard Foster. Messy Spirituality is his first major book to be actively marketed in the UK.
Mike Yaconelli is the founder of Youth Specialities, an international organisation that trains and provides resources for more than 100,000 youth workers worldwide. He is the lay pastor of a small church "for people who don't like church", and a hugely popular speaker at Christian events such as Greenbelt and Brainstormers.