<P>In our age when the church can too often seem like a poor copy of the world Chad Bird challenges us to reclaim the astounding originality of our ancient backward faith. Where the world stresses the importance of success Bird invites listeners to embrace nine specific failures in the areas of our personal lives our relationships and the church. Why? Because what human wisdom deems indispensable is so often an impediment to our spiritual growth and what it deems insignificant is so often essential to it.</P><P>With compelling examples from the Bible and today Bird paints an enticing picture of the counter-intuitive counter-cultural life that God wants for us. He helps listeners delight in all of the ways that Jesus turned the world upside down allowing us to experience true freedom not from our weaknesses but in the midst of them.</P>