I'm probably going to retread this book after I write this review because it has been so transformational in my thinking.I am the children's ministry director at my church. I have made the observation that the perspective of the curriculum makes a huge difference in theology for our kids. When we focus on the Bible characters and how we can be like them or glean nuggets of how to follow God from their stories, the kids get mired in works-based theology. No matter how much we would point to the cross, the kids would hear works. Then we changed our curriculum that had a solid God focus: Who is God? What is He like? How should I act towards Him? This perspective started a liberation from works for our kids. But I could never figure out why.This book really explains why: we were finally teaching the right and proper fear of God. When we spend a whole year camping out on His attributes, we were looking at Him with the joyful fear and awe that frees us from the fear of everything else.To say that I have been convicted by this book is an understatement. But it is a joyful gratitude that permeates it. I'm so grateful for the keen awareness I have when I am being fearful of things that are not God. I am learning, through the Holy Spirit's power, to let go of that fear as one lays aside a heavy weight I never knew was there. The freedom is immense. Being free to not fear and love deeply instead is glorious--it is something I have searched for for many years. I'm so glad that God has so graciously revealed Himself to me in this way. Simply monumental.