How many biographies have you read or seen about the driven individual who has achieved personal triumph? And how many biographies have you read or seen about the relational person embedded within community?

Maybe that’s why I enjoyed Kelly Kapic’s You’re Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God’s Design and Why That’s Good News. This book aims to lift from our shoulders the sense that we carry the weight of the world. I appreciate how Kapic situates theological truth in contrast with cultural expectations. You can see the goodness of God’s creation and the gospel of Jesus Christ when you consider the alternate messages we hear from the world. The good life isn’t just for the people who seem to have it all. The best life is contentment in Christ with whatever we have.

Kapic joined me on Gospelbound to discuss the good news of limits, living in the moment, and the fear of the Lord. He also explained why he doesn’t like the current discourse about identity in Christ.