In a defensive and divided era, how can followers of Jesus reveal a better way of living, one that loves others as God loves us? How can Christians be the kind of people who are known, as Proverbs puts it, to “turn away wrath?” Scott Sauls’s compelling new book shows Christians how to become people of “a gentle answer” in a politically, relationally, and culturally fractured world by helping readers:

• grow in affection for Christ, who answers our hostility with gentleness;
• nurture a renewed, softened heart in light of Christ’s gentleness toward us;
• and catch a vision to forsake us-against-them mentalities, put down our swords, and “infect” a hostile world with gentleness.