Ep 52: Bob Goff on Everybody, Always

Bob Goff calls himself a "recovering lawyer" because after practicing law for 25 years, then becoming the Hon. Consul to Uganda, he gave up his law firm to pursue writing and speaking full time. (You probably know him from his bestselling book Love Does.) The best part has been connecting with so many people who are on a terrific adventure as well.

In this conversation, Bob shares how he hopes his new book Everybody, Always will help all of us love even the people we don’t like, the people that we avoid, and (our favorite) the people that creep us out. He points out that it’s hard to love your neighbors if you don’t know them.

Lots of us feel like God would be thrilled with us if we travelled across the world to love people there, but Bob shares that he’s pretty sure God is dazzled when we walk across the street to say hello to our neighbors.

Some solid gold quotes by Bob in this conversation:

• We only want to be around people that we like.
• When your love has an agenda it's not love anymore.
• You might get sad, but don't get stuck.

After Bob’s interview, Pastor Daron and Radio Theology co-host Ryan Ahlwardt take a deeper dive into what it actually means to love our neighbors and how God can take us on the adventure of a lifetime if we just take a walk across the street.

About Everybody, Always

Everybody, Always releases on April 17th, 2018. “What happens when we stop avoiding difficult people and simply love everyone? In his wildly entertaining and inspiring follow-up to the New York Times bestselling phenomenon Love Does, Bob Goff takes readers on a life-altering journey into the secret of living without fear, care, constraint, or worry. The path toward the outsized, unfettered, liberated existence we all long for is found in a truth as simple to say as it is hard to do: love people, even the difficult ones, without distinction and without limits. Driven by Bob's trademark hilarious and insightful storytelling, Everybody, Always reveals the lessons Bob learned - often the hard way - about what it means to love without inhibition, insecurity, or restriction. From finding the right friends to discovering the upside of failure, Everybody, Always points the way to embodying love by doing the unexpected, the intimidating, the seemingly impossible. Whether losing his shoes while skydiving solo or befriending a Ugandan witch doctor, Bob steps into life with a no-limits embrace of others that is as infectious as it is extraordinarily ordinary. Everybody, Always reveals how we can do the same.

About the Born to Be Podcast

The Born to Be Podcast is focused on helping you discover your unique calling and purpose in life. We believe you were created on purpose and for a purpose. Each week, we deliver inspiration and interviews with today's top thought leaders who are living out their unique calling. Are you ready to discover your true identity and become who you were born to be?

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