Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction: From Failure to Freedom

Chapter 1: Permission to Be Real

Chapter 2: Growing Up with God

Chapter 3: Stuff Like This Doesn’t Happen to Us

Chapter 4: Chased by God

Chapter 5: It’s Complicated

Chapter 6: Come, Thou Fount

Chapter 7: Owning My New Identity

Chapter 8: Sin Shock

Chapter 9: Vulnerability Breeds Vulnerability

Chapter 10: Jesus Is Better

Notes

Guide

1. Foreword

2. Table of Contents

Jamie Ivey knows the grace of God deep down in her bones. She tells her story with humor and candor, and with a heaping measure of bravery. I’m beyond thankful for her voice in the church today. I pray that the example of her transparency will spread far, and that the testimony of the gospel found in the pages of this book will saturate the dry soil of many lives.

Jamie’s vulnerability will cause you to exhale and remind you of God’s grace to build beauty from ashes. Thank you, Jamie, for reminding us that there is freedom in repentance and how beautiful the local church can be.

Jennie Allen, author of Nothing to Prove and founder and visionary of the IF:Gathering

Jamie is one of the kindest and most genuine people I’ve ever met, and you’ll be glad to know she shows up exactly in these pages as she does in real life. If you’ve ever felt held captive by a part of your story that you’ve kept hidden, Jamie’s story will be an encouragement to you that nothing you’ve done can keep you from living out your purpose in this life.

Amy Brown, co-host of the Bobby Bones Show

I’ll be buying copies of Jamie’s book for all the young gals I know, all the gals wondering how they step into the life they know God has for them. I couldn’t tell where Jamie’s story ended and Jesus’ story began, and that is a very beautiful thing. This book pulls back the curtain on grace, hope, and purpose in a life-giving and encouraging way and I can’t suggest reading it enough.

Jessi Connolly, speaker and author of Dance Stand Run and Wild and Free

Jamie’s podcast is fun and approachable in tone, just like a happy hour meet up. Her book, while still maintaining the girlfriend to girlfriend tone we have come to know and love from her, also reveals a more vulnerable side of Jamie. She wades in deep waters with Jesus throughout the pages and I found myself dwelling in the waters with her by the book’s end.

Jessica Honegger, founder and CEO of Noonday Collection

If you’ve listened to Jamie’s podcast, you no doubt feel like she’s a dear, trusted friend. And in Jamie’s new book, she takes that friendship to a whole new level by getting all-the-way real with her readers. Refreshingly honest and relatable, If You Only Knew is a fearless, bold, gut-level-honest account of Jamie’s journey to freedom in Christ. You’ll see yourself in her story, and more than anything else, you’ll see the loving hand of a Savior who faithfully pursues, redeems, heals, and restores. What a beautifully written, grace-filled reminder that it is for freedom that we have ...