Walking in Victory: Why God’s love can change your life like legalism never could

by Dennis McCallum

Who are you? And what does your identity have to do with victory in your life with Jesus? These are the questions addressed in Paul’s epic passage on spiritual growth in Romans 5-8,
•Find out why grace is more motivating than law.
•Learn how ‘doing’ arises out of ‘being.’
•What is ‘Walking according to the Spirit?’
•How can God cause me to be conformed to the image of Christ?

Genres: Christianity, Christian

233 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 18, 2012

About the author

Dennis is Lead pastor of Xenos Fellowship, which is a grassroots house church planting ministry. Since beginning the group as a student Ohio State University, during the Jesus movement, he has remained interested in reproducing church features found in the New Testament. Xenos focuses on Bible exposition at its meetings, and most of Dennis' books focus on Bible teaching.

Reviews

[Charlie Yep · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely smashing would recommend let me go and read it again

[Emily Powell · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 ⭐️
A friend gifted me this and asked me to read it and discuss it with her.

I enjoyed this book a lot- there were many example scenarios for his points that were often cheesy but made the point at hand. I appreciated many of McCallums insights. While I wouldn’t have necessarily considered myself someone who struggled explicitly with legalism there were many areas he pointed to that illuminated where I do tend to lean toward a legalistic side of Christianity. He did a great job of balancing grace and Gods sovereignty with our Christian responsibility to uphold Gods word and exemplify it in our lives through the work and dependence upon the Holy Spirit.

[Shannon Rothwell · Rating 5 out of 5]

“This means that even in the worst circumstance, God has a way to use it for your good, and therefore you have a reason to rejoice.” (pg 160)

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[Eimy Porrello · Rating 5 out of 5]

So good

[Mark · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dennis McCallum is one of the founders of the church I attended as a new Christian. This book distills most of the teaching I heard early in my Christian faith about the nature of spiritual growth. These teachings had a significant role in shaping how I view the world and understand what it means to live life as a Christian. To be honest, when I learned this material it was in the form of handouts and articles... this book was written later making use of the materials I learned from. I believe that there are better books for many of the topics that are covered in this book. For example, I think Green Letters by Miles Stanford and Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee has more depth on many of the topics. Release of the Spirit by Watchman Nee and Broken in the Right Places by Alan Nelson gives a much more complete explanation about how trials and suffering refine our character. The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence and A Praying Life by Paul Miller is much better explaining a life of prayer. The Sacred Romance by Brent Curtis & John Eldredge is much more effective at capturing the personal nature of a walk with God. Never the less, the materials in this book are extremely valuable in understanding the foundations of basic, Christian spirituality and I can't think of a better book that covers all these topics as well as Walking in Victor.