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Encounters

Language EnglishEnglish
Book Hardback
Book Encounters Patrick B. Appiah
Libristo code: 50843951
Publishers Grand Publishers, January 2026
Encounters is a discipleship-focused, Scripture-rooted journey that argues one central idea: real tr... Full description
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Encounters is a discipleship-focused, Scripture-rooted journey that argues one central idea: real transformation does not begin with effort, but with encounter. Encounter is presented as the point where God interrupts ordinary life with divine reality, and where faith stops being abstract and becomes personal, obedient, and durable.

The book opens by framing reconciliation with God as the true foundation of purpose and identity, made possible through Jesus Christ and sustained by the Holy Spirit's active presence. Rather than treating the Spirit as an impersonal influence, the text emphasises the Holy Spirit as a divine Person who teaches, comforts, guides, and anchors the believer's life in ongoing fellowship with God.

Core message and narrative arc

The introduction sets the tone: a genuine encounter with Jesus is never neutral. It leaves an imprint that reshapes the inner life, renewing the mind and realigning the heart. Transformation is described as a deep spiritual reordering, not behaviour adjustment, and the consistent biblical pattern is laid out as: encounter → revelation → response → transformation. This pattern is traced through key biblical stories (Abraham, Moses, Isaiah, Jacob, Paul), where a collision with God produces a new direction, new identity, and new obedience. 

From there, the book builds in two main movements:

1. What divine encounters are and how they form faith, identity, and culture.

2. How transformation is sustained through surrender, Scripture, the Spirit, and daily discipleship. 

Encounter as the ignition of faith and purpose

Early chapters insist that faith often requires more than inherited belief. The text argues that encounter gives "substance" to faith, shifting it from concept to relationship. It stresses that people arrive differently; some believe and then encounter, others encounter and then believe, but in both cases, encounter becomes the milestone that clarifies God's nearness and voice. Saul's Damascus-road confrontation is used as a model of sudden divine interruption that reassigns identity and mission in one moment. 

Encounter as the ignition of faith and purpose

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About the book

Full name Encounters
Language English
Binding Book - Hardback
Date of issue 2026
Number of pages 144
EAN 9781918465075
ISBN 191846507X
Libristo code 50843951
Publishers Grand Publishers
Weight 435
Dimensions 152 x 229 x 14
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