Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God (and the unlikely people who help you)

What does a HipHop artist, Waffle House waitress, tire salesman, and disabled girl have to do with discovering spiritual truth? What if embracing authentic Christianity is a journey of unlearning? Welcome to Jim Palmers world!Don Miller meets Anne Lamott meets Brian McLaren in this tale of shedding religion and plunging into uncharted depths of knowing God. Jim Palmer, emergent pastor, shares his compelling offroad spiritual journey and the unsuspecting people who became his guides.Perhaps Gods reason for wanting me, writes Palmer, is much better than my reason for wanting him. Maybe Gods idea of my salvation trumps the version I am too willing to settle for. Seeing I needed a little help to get this, God sent a variety pack of characters to awaken me. For all those hoping theres more to God and Christianity than what theyve heard or experienced, each chapter of Divine Nobodies gives the reader permission and freedom to discover it for themselves. Sometimes comical, other times tragic, at times shocking, always honest; Jim Palmers story offers an inspiring and profound glimpse into life with God beyond institutional church and conventional religion.I am tempted to say that Jim Palmer could well be the next Donald Miller, but what they have in common, along with an honest spirituality and extraordinary skill as storytellers, is a unique voice . . . Divine Nobodies is a delight to read, and it was good for my soul to read it.BRIAN MCLARENAuthor of The Secret Message of JesusYou hold in your hands an amazing story of a broken man finding freedom in all the right placesin Gods work in the lives of some extraordinarily ordinary people around him. You will thrill to this delightful blend of gutwrenching honesty and laughoutloud hilarity, and in the end youll find God much closer, the body of Christ far bigger and your own journey far clearer than you ever dreamed.WAYNE JACOBSENAuthor of Authentic Relationships