René Breuel is an author, a theologian,
and the Founding Pastor of Hopera, a church in Rome, Italy.
In an engaging, paradigm-shifting book, René Breuel deconstructs our consumerist models of happiness and proposes a radical alternative: we don’t find happiness when we try to fulfill our own desires—we find it when we stop looking for it and start focusing on serving others.
By letting go, we find; by giving, we receive. Happy are those who work for the happiness of others.
René Breuel is the Lead Pastor of Hopera, a church in central Rome that seeks to contribute to Italy’s spiritual, social, and cultural flourishing.
“We must watch the European church and learn from its successes and failures because our own cultures are shaped by the same secularism and materialism more and more. This volume is an enormous help, then, both for those called to do gospel ministry inside and outside of Europe.”
- Timothy Keller, from the introduction
In celebration of Regent College's 50th anniversary, James Houston, J. I. Packer, René Breuel, and other members of the Regent community have written on everything from Art to Passports to Laughter to Wine. This new compendium demonstrates over and again how God cares for every square inch of life.