Download or read book How to Inherit the Earth written by Scott A. Bessenecker and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-01-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambition isn't bad; it just does bad things. In a culture that too often prizes leadership uncritically and unreflectively, a faith that calls us to take up crosses, lay down lives and otherwise submit ourselves to something outside ourselves simply sounds like a bad idea. Nevertheless, this is the faith that we find Jesus talking about. Scott Bessenecker has learned from new friar communities, from the history of Christianity and from the mouth of Jesus that there's something wonderfully subversive about saying no to ourselves every now and then, something that could even change the world.