Book Recommendation : "The Biblical View of Self-Esteem, Self-Love, Self-Image" by Jay E Adams

Jay E Adams, “The Biblical View of Self-Esteem, Self-Love, Self-Image”, Harvest House Publishers, 1986.

Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? Familiar questions in our day and age. But has our search for answers led us too far in the wrong direction: away from our true position in Christ and toward a dangerous emphasis on self such as “self-image”, “self-esteem”, “self-worth” and “self-love”?

Now well-known biblical counselor and noted author Jay E Adams brings much-needed clarification to the area of self-esteem and offers the church and every believer a truly biblical view of self. “.…Jesus sets forth self-denial rather than self-affirmation as the way to enter into a proper relationship with God. Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake shall find it.” (Matt. 16:24-25)………”