{"product_id":"from-shame-to-charity-putting-first-things-first-healing-worth-liberating-purpose-and-rebuilding-a-culture-of-christlike-abundance-9798197268549","title":"From Shame to Charity: Putting First Things First: Healing Worth, Liberating Purpose, and Rebuilding a Culture of Christlike Abundance","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kelly L. Call\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christian Life - Personal Growth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShame has ruled too much of human life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has made people prove they deserve to exist. It has turned weakness into worthlessness, correction into condemnation, poverty into humiliation, sexuality into secrecy, work into self-justification, and whole cultures into systems of fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Shame to Charity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e offers a bold Christian vision for personal healing and civilizational renewal. Kelly L. Call argues that shame is not humility, conscience, repentance, or godly sorrow. Shame is counterfeit moral government. It attacks the worth of God's children instead of inviting them back to Jesus Christ.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book helps readers answer two foundational questions: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAm I Good?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat Good Am I?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first question is answered through divine parentage, the worth of souls, the Atonement of Jesus Christ, remembered gifts we could never give ourselves, and charity as the pure love of Christ. The second is answered through consecrated purpose, stewardship, contribution, and fruitfulness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this book does not stop with the individual soul. It follows shame into the systems where it hides: law, economics, education, technology, sexuality, health care, housing, infrastructure, and culture. Then it asks what these systems could become if converted from shame to charity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from Latter-day Saint scripture, the \u003cb\u003eSeven Governing Dynamics, the Priority Merger \/ Unity System\u003c\/b\u003e, and a forward-looking vision of modular Zion localities, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Shame to Charity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e shows why positive world change must be ordered upstream: Charitability first, emotional intelligence second, wise law and regulation third, and every other reform downstream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is a sweeping vision of an abundant future: a world where the earth is remembered as the Lord's full handiwork, where earthly blessings are treated as stewardships, where technology serves rather than rules, where agency is preserved, where sexuality is restored to sacred personhood, where the poor and needy are lifted without humiliation, and where communities are designed for personhood-safe belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a call to na�ve optimism or technological salvation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChrist saves. Charity governs. Agency is preserved. Abundance is stewarded. Zion becomes the horizon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Shame to Charity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a book for readers who sense that shame cannot heal the soul, reform culture, or build the future God intends. It is an invitation to receive worth as a gift, bear fruit as stewardship, and build forward in faith.","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891735347351,"sku":"9798197268549","price":3980.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197268549.webp?v=1781184650","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/from-shame-to-charity-putting-first-things-first-healing-worth-liberating-purpose-and-rebuilding-a-culture-of-christlike-abundance-9798197268549","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}