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The Green Letters: Principles of Spiritual Growth
As the first book in a series of five on the Christian life, The Green Letters emphasizes both the doctrinal and experiential aspects of maturing in Christian living. The book is grounded in Scripture and enlivened by quotations from noted authors. "Not I, but Christ" is its theme. The author makes this arresting statement regarding the dynamics of the Christian life: "God . . . doesn't intend to help us live the Christian life. Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be life itself." Perhaps the greatest drama in the world is the slow and subtle growth of character in the Christian. Beauty of character can be developed only through years of reflection and experience in the Word of God as the life of Christ is increasingly lived by faith. The Christian life is a healthy, robust kind of life. It advances also through trials, for in one who has faith even suffering is not wasted, but becomes a means for increasing spiritual vigor and strength.
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First published July 9, 1981
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December 15, 2008
A very encouraging book on Christian liberty and spiritual growth.
Poignant Quotes:
Real faith is always increased by opposition, while false confidence is damaged and discouraged by it.
Trials, obstacles, difficulties, and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.
It seems that most believers have difficulty in realizing and facing up to the inexorable fact that God does not hurry in His development of our Christian life. He is working from and for eternity!
Our satisfaction can only spring from and rest in His satisfaction.
When all is going well, and God seems to be blessing, then it is that they feel He loves and accepts them. But when they are stumbling, and everything seems dry and hard, then they feel He does not love and accept them. How can this be? There is nothing about us to commend us to God, our acceptance being in Christ, plus the fact that most of our true spiritual development comes through the dry and hard times.
Our heavenly Father is still carrying out His purpose of making man in His image.
It is one thing to know what God's purpose is for our lives, and it is another to know something of the "how"as to entering into it all right here and now. One of God's most effective means in the process is failure.
Failure where self is concerned in our Christian life and service, is allowed and often engineered by God in order to turn us completely from ourselves to His Source for our life - Christ Jesus, who never fails.
If I am to be like Him, then God in His grace must do it...I cannot do it. Don't try to be like Him, just look at Him. Come to the Word for one purpose and that is to meet the Lord. - Norman Douty
Now it so happens that God's basic ingredient for growth is need. Without personal needs, we would get nowhere in our Christian life.
Wisdom and philosophy never found out God; He makes Himself known to us through our needs; necessity finds Him out. I doubt much if we have ever learned anything solidly except we have learnt it thus - J. N. Darby
The first thing for which He sets us here is to create hunger in others. No true work will ever begin without a sense of need being created.
Without a bitter experience of their own inadequacy and poverty they are quite unfitted to bear the burden of spiritual ministry. It takes a man who has discovered something of the measures of his own weakness to be patient with the foibles of others. Such a man also has a first-hand knowledge of the loving care of the Chief Shepherd, and his ability to heal one who has come humble to trust in Him and Him alone. - P. B. Power
Our personal, heart-breaking failure in every phase of our Christian life is our Father's preparation for His success on our behalf.
It is the man who lacks the yearning to know Him that will easily be turned aside.
There is great glory in the Lord in a quiet, confident walk in a day of adversity, a day of dread, when things about us are shaking and trembling. - G. P.
Our part is not production, but reception of our life in Christ.
Only those who have sought to grow by effort and fail are in the position to appreciate the fact that is the aggressor in the realm of development
"Life is meant to bring a succession of discoveries of our need of Christ, and with every such discovery the way is opened for a new inflow of the supply...and as our need is met, as we prove the sufficiency of Christ to meet our inward need, so there can be a new showing forth of His glory through us" - H.F.
a prophet is one who has a history, one who has been dealt with by God, one who has experienced the formative work of the Spirit. We are sometimes asked by would-be preachers how many days should be spent in preparation of a sermon. The answer is: At least ten years, and probably nearer twenty! For the preacher matters to God at least as much as the thing preached.
And from the outset, until hard experience teaches him otherwise, the well-meaning believer thinks that since he has the will to obey God and to be what He intends for him, he should attempt to carry it out through personal consecrated effort with help.
It is the man who is conscious of his won impotence as a believer who will learn that by the Holy Spirit he can lead a holy life.
Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be life itself.
Our Father strips everything away from time to time to give us the opportunity of loving and trusting and responding to Him just because He is our Father.
If our hearts are really true to Him we may be assured He will lead us on in the knowledge of Himself just as fast as we are able to advance. he knows how much we can take in, and He does not fail to minister to us the very food that is suitable to our present need.
We have to trust His love all through, and to learn increasingly to distrust ourselves.
Apart from abiding there is nothing but frustration and failure.
Assurance of salvation is not gained through the senses
Read Ch. 21 - "Reconciliation and Acceptance"
Our present condition is infinitely inferior to our eternal position, but our Father accepts us - not in ourselves, but in His Son.
All too few are enjoying the benefits of acceptance in their daily walk. The believer who is not aware of his position of acceptance in Christ is caught in the struggle to improve his condition in order to feel acceptable to God.
We make the natural mistake of depending on condition, instead of position, for our acceptance.
When service is given predominance over fellowship with and growth in the Lord Jesus, doing, instead of being, takes over in the life. Fellowship and growth must ever take precedence over service and activity, otherwise spiritual declension sets in.
Love functions according to its nature, not according to the quality of its object.
We are resting in a position, in a Person who is fully and forever accepted by God, One in whom there is no improvement necessary or possible. We have exchanged unimproveable self for the perfect One.
Each step of faith we take concerning the facts of our position prepares us for the following one, since every succeeding step is established on all that precedes.
The believer who rests in the Sovereignty of God, the Will of God, and in the Love of God knows he is eternally secure.
Even when the unbeliever's conscience is clear, this state is often attained by a combination of rationalization and good works, resulting in self-righteousness. Hence his so-called good conscience is the very element that tends to keep him from seeing his need for God's righteousness and life. On the other hand, when his conscience is bad, he flees from God with a sense of despair because of personal unworthiness. It is only when the Holy Spirit convicts the mind, heart, and conscience concerning sin, whether of self-righteousness or of unworthiness, that the sinner can see his need of turning to Christ.
One of the chief reasons so many believers are spiritually ill is a guilty, oppressed conscience. They are laboring under the burden of their unrighteous condition, rather than resting in the liberty of their righteous position.
The awakened Christian who is not resting in his position becomes discouraged by his condition.
Our present experience is greatly inferior to our eternal position, no matter what the stage of our spiritual growth. The development of our condition is toward our finished position, and at the same time from that completed source.
...our Lord keeps us dependent on Himself, and at the same time fully confident in Him. Needy, but bold.
Only the believer who has repeatedly gone down in defeat under the relentless power of the Adam-nature can appreciate the necessity of walking in dependence on the Holy Spirit.
The carnal believer is depending on fleshly means for deliverance from fleshly failure; he is looking for strength to the very source from which he is seeking deliverance.
By various maxims, forms and rules,
That pass for wisdom in the schools,
I sought my passions to restrain;
But all my efforts proved in vain.
But since my Savior I have known
My rules are all reduced to One,
To keep my Lord by faith in view,
This strength supplies and motive too. - John Newton
...barrenness of life produces busyness!
His will for the Christian is expressed in the word "being", which in turn will result in effective "doing."
Our Father's ultimate purpose in saving us is that we might be conformed to the image of His Son, not simply to keep us out of hell and get us into heaven. We have been born into Christ that he may be our life, not just our Savior.
The feeling of constraint expressed in "I must" makes for Romans 7 defeat.
His perfect will becomes a delight to us, not a duty.
There is only one true and adequate motivating power for living the Christian life, and that is the very life of the Lord Jesus - ministered within by the Spirit of Life Himself.
Our hatred of self is actually developed and strengthened during our miserable years of slavery to it.
"the fellowship of his sufferings." Suffering is the lot of all men, the privilege of all believers. The general thinking is that God is not blessing unless He keeps us from, or relieves us of, suffering. Far from it! There is no fellowship with, and growth in, the crucified Lord without suffering - physical, mental, and spiritual.
He knows what needs we need to keep us needy!
...most new converts begin to live and work for Him from the motive of gratitude for their salvation. The usual exhortation they are given is, "Now get busy and serve the Lord." This they seek to do on the basis of the birth truths. From this inadequate ground the majority of young Christians go down in defeat.
Poignant Quotes:
Real faith is always increased by opposition, while false confidence is damaged and discouraged by it.
Trials, obstacles, difficulties, and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.
It seems that most believers have difficulty in realizing and facing up to the inexorable fact that God does not hurry in His development of our Christian life. He is working from and for eternity!
Our satisfaction can only spring from and rest in His satisfaction.
When all is going well, and God seems to be blessing, then it is that they feel He loves and accepts them. But when they are stumbling, and everything seems dry and hard, then they feel He does not love and accept them. How can this be? There is nothing about us to commend us to God, our acceptance being in Christ, plus the fact that most of our true spiritual development comes through the dry and hard times.
Our heavenly Father is still carrying out His purpose of making man in His image.
It is one thing to know what God's purpose is for our lives, and it is another to know something of the "how"as to entering into it all right here and now. One of God's most effective means in the process is failure.
Failure where self is concerned in our Christian life and service, is allowed and often engineered by God in order to turn us completely from ourselves to His Source for our life - Christ Jesus, who never fails.
If I am to be like Him, then God in His grace must do it...I cannot do it. Don't try to be like Him, just look at Him. Come to the Word for one purpose and that is to meet the Lord. - Norman Douty
Now it so happens that God's basic ingredient for growth is need. Without personal needs, we would get nowhere in our Christian life.
Wisdom and philosophy never found out God; He makes Himself known to us through our needs; necessity finds Him out. I doubt much if we have ever learned anything solidly except we have learnt it thus - J. N. Darby
The first thing for which He sets us here is to create hunger in others. No true work will ever begin without a sense of need being created.
Without a bitter experience of their own inadequacy and poverty they are quite unfitted to bear the burden of spiritual ministry. It takes a man who has discovered something of the measures of his own weakness to be patient with the foibles of others. Such a man also has a first-hand knowledge of the loving care of the Chief Shepherd, and his ability to heal one who has come humble to trust in Him and Him alone. - P. B. Power
Our personal, heart-breaking failure in every phase of our Christian life is our Father's preparation for His success on our behalf.
It is the man who lacks the yearning to know Him that will easily be turned aside.
There is great glory in the Lord in a quiet, confident walk in a day of adversity, a day of dread, when things about us are shaking and trembling. - G. P.
Our part is not production, but reception of our life in Christ.
Only those who have sought to grow by effort and fail are in the position to appreciate the fact that is the aggressor in the realm of development
"Life is meant to bring a succession of discoveries of our need of Christ, and with every such discovery the way is opened for a new inflow of the supply...and as our need is met, as we prove the sufficiency of Christ to meet our inward need, so there can be a new showing forth of His glory through us" - H.F.
a prophet is one who has a history, one who has been dealt with by God, one who has experienced the formative work of the Spirit. We are sometimes asked by would-be preachers how many days should be spent in preparation of a sermon. The answer is: At least ten years, and probably nearer twenty! For the preacher matters to God at least as much as the thing preached.
And from the outset, until hard experience teaches him otherwise, the well-meaning believer thinks that since he has the will to obey God and to be what He intends for him, he should attempt to carry it out through personal consecrated effort with help.
It is the man who is conscious of his won impotence as a believer who will learn that by the Holy Spirit he can lead a holy life.
Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be life itself.
Our Father strips everything away from time to time to give us the opportunity of loving and trusting and responding to Him just because He is our Father.
If our hearts are really true to Him we may be assured He will lead us on in the knowledge of Himself just as fast as we are able to advance. he knows how much we can take in, and He does not fail to minister to us the very food that is suitable to our present need.
We have to trust His love all through, and to learn increasingly to distrust ourselves.
Apart from abiding there is nothing but frustration and failure.
Assurance of salvation is not gained through the senses
Read Ch. 21 - "Reconciliation and Acceptance"
Our present condition is infinitely inferior to our eternal position, but our Father accepts us - not in ourselves, but in His Son.
All too few are enjoying the benefits of acceptance in their daily walk. The believer who is not aware of his position of acceptance in Christ is caught in the struggle to improve his condition in order to feel acceptable to God.
We make the natural mistake of depending on condition, instead of position, for our acceptance.
When service is given predominance over fellowship with and growth in the Lord Jesus, doing, instead of being, takes over in the life. Fellowship and growth must ever take precedence over service and activity, otherwise spiritual declension sets in.
Love functions according to its nature, not according to the quality of its object.
We are resting in a position, in a Person who is fully and forever accepted by God, One in whom there is no improvement necessary or possible. We have exchanged unimproveable self for the perfect One.
Each step of faith we take concerning the facts of our position prepares us for the following one, since every succeeding step is established on all that precedes.
The believer who rests in the Sovereignty of God, the Will of God, and in the Love of God knows he is eternally secure.
Even when the unbeliever's conscience is clear, this state is often attained by a combination of rationalization and good works, resulting in self-righteousness. Hence his so-called good conscience is the very element that tends to keep him from seeing his need for God's righteousness and life. On the other hand, when his conscience is bad, he flees from God with a sense of despair because of personal unworthiness. It is only when the Holy Spirit convicts the mind, heart, and conscience concerning sin, whether of self-righteousness or of unworthiness, that the sinner can see his need of turning to Christ.
One of the chief reasons so many believers are spiritually ill is a guilty, oppressed conscience. They are laboring under the burden of their unrighteous condition, rather than resting in the liberty of their righteous position.
The awakened Christian who is not resting in his position becomes discouraged by his condition.
Our present experience is greatly inferior to our eternal position, no matter what the stage of our spiritual growth. The development of our condition is toward our finished position, and at the same time from that completed source.
...our Lord keeps us dependent on Himself, and at the same time fully confident in Him. Needy, but bold.
Only the believer who has repeatedly gone down in defeat under the relentless power of the Adam-nature can appreciate the necessity of walking in dependence on the Holy Spirit.
The carnal believer is depending on fleshly means for deliverance from fleshly failure; he is looking for strength to the very source from which he is seeking deliverance.
By various maxims, forms and rules,
That pass for wisdom in the schools,
I sought my passions to restrain;
But all my efforts proved in vain.
But since my Savior I have known
My rules are all reduced to One,
To keep my Lord by faith in view,
This strength supplies and motive too. - John Newton
...barrenness of life produces busyness!
His will for the Christian is expressed in the word "being", which in turn will result in effective "doing."
Our Father's ultimate purpose in saving us is that we might be conformed to the image of His Son, not simply to keep us out of hell and get us into heaven. We have been born into Christ that he may be our life, not just our Savior.
The feeling of constraint expressed in "I must" makes for Romans 7 defeat.
His perfect will becomes a delight to us, not a duty.
There is only one true and adequate motivating power for living the Christian life, and that is the very life of the Lord Jesus - ministered within by the Spirit of Life Himself.
Our hatred of self is actually developed and strengthened during our miserable years of slavery to it.
"the fellowship of his sufferings." Suffering is the lot of all men, the privilege of all believers. The general thinking is that God is not blessing unless He keeps us from, or relieves us of, suffering. Far from it! There is no fellowship with, and growth in, the crucified Lord without suffering - physical, mental, and spiritual.
He knows what needs we need to keep us needy!
...most new converts begin to live and work for Him from the motive of gratitude for their salvation. The usual exhortation they are given is, "Now get busy and serve the Lord." This they seek to do on the basis of the birth truths. From this inadequate ground the majority of young Christians go down in defeat.
October 11, 2023
Shoutout Hayden for this book! So good!!!!!
December 31, 2024
This was a very helpful book. Small but deep, it contains a lot of wisdom about spiritual growth for Christians. I especially liked the metaphors used and the passages from early church leaders.
May 30, 2018
Time
p 13 "We must get to know ourselves and that we have no strength. Thus we must learn, and then leaning on the Lord we can with more maturity, and more experientially, deal with souls."
p 14 "To taste of the grace of God is one thing; to be established in it and manifest it in character, habit, and regular life, is another."
p 15 "Fruit ripens slowly; days of sunshine and days of storm each add their share. Blessing will succeed blessing, and storm follow storm before the fruit is full grown or comes to maturity."
p 15 "in simple trust rest in HIS hands."
p 15 "All growth is progressive, and the finer the organism, the longer the process."
p 16 "allow Him to be your all in all."
p 16 "may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death" (Phil 3:10)
Acceptance
p 18 "Two questions every believer must settle as soon as possible. The one is, Does God fully accept me? and, If so, upon what basis does He do so?"
p 18 "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." (Rom 5:1)
p 20 "Our satisfaction can only spring from and rest in HIS satisfaction."
p 20 "He has accepted us in His Son, and upon this FACT we must rest our faith."
p 21 "To believe, and to be consent to be loved while unworthy, is the great secret."
p 21 "To 'hope to be better' (sense acceptable) is to FAIL to see yourself IN CHRIST ONLY."
"To be disappointed with yourself is to have believed in yourself."
p 22 "Often fear after a while produces only numbness, but love thrives on love."
p 22 "Until the Christian is absolutely and scripturally sure of his standing, he is not going to do much standing. "stand therefore" (Eph 6:14a)
Purpose
p25 "One of God's most effective means in the process is failure. So many believers are simply frantic over the fact of failure in their lives, and they will go to all lengths in trying to hide it, ignore it, or rationalize about it. And all the time they are resisting the main instrument in the Father's hand for conforming us to the likeness of His Son!"
pg 25 "Failure where self is concerned in our Christian life and service, is allowed and often engineered by God in order to turn us completely from ourselves unto His Source for our life - Christ Jesus, who never fails. Rejoice, dear friend, in your need and hunger of heart, for God says, "Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled" (Matt. 5:6). As we, in our abject need, consistency and lovingly look upon our Lord Jesus revealed to us in the Word, the Holy Spirit will quietly and effortlessly change the center and source of our lives from self to Christ - hence for each of us it will be, "Not I, but Christ."
pg 26 "If we are attracted to this present evil world, we become increasingly worldly; if we pamper and live for self, we become more and more self-centered; but when we look unto Jesus Christ, we become more and more like Him."
pg 26 "Don't try to be like Him, just look at Him. Just be occupied with Him. Forget about trying to be like Him. Instead of letting that fill your mind and heart, let Him fill it."
Preparation
pg 28 "Now it so happens that God's basic ingredient for growth is need."
pg 28 "The true value of anything is known only when it is wanted." "Wisdom and philosophy never found out God; He makes Himself known to us through our needs; necessity finds Him out."
pg 29 "In this light, our needs are invaluable! We must face up to the fact that without spiritual hunger, we cannot feed upon the Lord Jesus Christ."
pg 29 "There is a tearing down before there can be a building up. "Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up" (Hosea 6:1). This applies to both growth and service.
pg 30 "It takes a man who has discovered something of the measures of his own weakness to be patient with the foibles of others. Such a man also has a first-hand knowledge of the loving care of the Chief Shepherd, and HIs ability to heal one who has come humbly to trust in Him and Him alone."
pg 31 "Our personal, heart-breaking failure in every phase of our Christian life is our Father's preparation for HIs success on our behalf."
p 31 "To receive victory from Him is to believe His Word that solely by His grace He is, this moment, freeing us from the dominion of sin. And to believe on Him in this way is to recognize that He is doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves."
Complete in Him
pg 35 "No believer ever fell into maturity, even though he is complete in Christ. Spiritual growth necessitates heart-hunger for the Lord Jesus; determination, based upon assurance, to have that which is our in Him, plus meditation and thought."
pg 37 "Your first instinct is to prepare yourself for a big battle and then pray to God to give you the victory in it. But if you do so defeat is sure, for you have given up the ground that is yours in Christ." "'Lord, I am faced with a situation I cannot possibly meet. Thine Enemy the Devil has brought it about to compass my downfall, but I praise Thee that Thy victory is an all-inclusive victory. It covers this situation, too. I praise Thee that I have already full victory in this matter."
Appropriation
pg 39 "Life is meant to bring a succession of discoveries of our need of Christ, and with every such discovery the way is opened for a new inflow of the supply. This is the explanation of so much that we cannot otherwise understand - this plunging of us into new tests where only a fresh supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ will meet our need. And as our need is met, as we prove the sufficiency of Christ to meet our inward need, so there can be a new showing forth of His glory through us."
Identification
pg 45 "We died with Christ. He dies for us, and we died with Him...Not merely that Christ died for us, but that we died with Him."
pg 46"Because He died 'death hath no more dominion over Him,' and because of our union with Him 'sin shall not have dominion over you,' even though it is present in you. Our 'reckoning' ourselves dead to sin in Jesus Christ does not make it a fact - it is already a fact through our union with Him. Our reckoning it to be true only makes us begin to realize the fact in experience."
Consecration
pg 48 "Healthy progress is based upon the apprehension, understanding and appropriation of the truths in Christ that make for real growth. "
pg 50 "He has already taken the old life to the cross and crucified it! (Rom 6:6; Gal 2:20, 2 Tim 2:11, 1 Peter 2:24)
pg 51 "When, however, yo and I are prepared, in simple humility, to make the FACT of our death with Christ our daily basis of life and service, there is nothing that can prevent the uprising and outflow of new life, and meet the need of thirsty souls around us."
pg 51"present yourselves unto God as alive from the dead' (Rom 6:13) This is the true place of consecration." "only those "ALIVE FROM THE DEAD" - that is, having appropriated fully their likeness with Him in death - are bidden to present their members as instruments unto God."
Self
pg 53 "In service: first, "death worth in us," then, "but life in you" (2 For 4:12) All resurrection life springs out of death, else it would not be resurrection life - His risen life (Rom 6:5, 6). "
pg 56 "God works by paradox. Success comes via failure; life springs out of death, etc....He has to be led into it by the mercy the Holy Spirit - into failure; abject and total."
pg 56 "Our poor health, yes, and good health too! A thousand and one things are used by Him - in fact, everything (Rom 8:28,29), to bring out the worst in us, ultimately enabling us to see that the Christian life has to be, "not I, but Christ." People, circumstances, etc. are never the cause of failure. Self's reaction to them is the cause, and the one problem to be dealt with. "it's me, it's me, O Lord.""
Self-Denial
"The powerful effect of the cross with God, in heaven, in the blotting out of guilt, and our renewed union with Go, is inseparable from the other effect - the breaking down of the authority of sin over man, by the crucifixion of self."
The Cross
pg 63-64 "Calvary is the secret of it all. It is what He did there that counts, and what He did becomes a source in the life of a Christian when it is appropriated by faith. This is the starting point from which all Godly living must take its rise. We shall never know the experience of Christ's victory in our lives until we are prepared to count (reckon) upon HIs victory at the cross as the secret of our personal victory today. There is no victory for us which was not first His."
p65 "Two basics: freed from the penalty of sin by His finished work; freed from the power of sin by His finished work... justified by faith..we are not left to deal with the old life ourselves; it has been dealt with by Christ on the cross."
pg 66 "We applicate God's forgiveness, but we want something more than that, we want deliverance. We need forgiveness for what we have done, but we need deliverance from what we are."
pg 67 ...."I must realize that now my life is hid with Christ in God; that He is my life." - Ian Thomas
Discipleship
"A disciple is one who first maintains the fellowship of the cross, which results in fellowship with his Lord: discipleship. "The atonement of the cross and the fellowship of the cross must be equally preached as the condition for true discipleship." "Christ is the answer, but the cross is needed to clear the way for Him.""
p 70 "We will be ready to take up our cross (see the cross for what it is - a place of death) when self becomes intolerable to us, when we begin to hate our life - "and hate not...his own life...cannot be my disciple." ( Luke 14:26). The deep burden of self and hunger to be like Him cause the function of the cross - crucifixion - to become attractive. "
pg 71 "And here is how e take up and bear our cross: Finally prepared by our needs, aware that our bondage was broken in Christ on Calvary, we definitely begin to rely upon that finished work - we appropriate. Our attitude becomes: I gladly and willingly take, by faith in the facts, my finished work of emancipation that was established at Calvary; I reckon myself to be dead indeed unto sin, and alive unto God in Christ. This is taking up one's cross. As we learn to do this, we begin to find these facts true in experience." ..... Through this process we are patiently taught to walk by faith, to maintain our attitude of reliance upon the finished work of the cross. "I have been crucified with Christ"
Process of Discipleship
pg 73 "But if they are of the real elect, God has a winepress prepared for them, through which they will some day pass, which will turn the metallic hardness of their nature into gentle love, which Christ always brings forth at the last of the feast."
Rest
pg 76 "In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength." (Isaiah 30:15)
"We are to quietly and steadily look to our Father in confident trust, and thankfully receive that which He has given to us in His Son."
pg 80 "True activity is that which springs out of, and is ever accompanied by, rest. It is only as we know what it is to be 'still', that we are ready to 'go forward'. We rest on Thee, and in Thy Name we go" - E.H.
...."Let us take Him at His Word, and leave the fulfillment of it to Him."
Help
pg 81 "Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be Life itself."
pg 82-83 "S.D. Gordon admonished: "When you are in the thick of the fight, when you are the object of attack, plead less and claim more, of the ground of the blood of the Lord Jesus. I do not mean, ask God to give you victory, but claim His victory, to overshadow you."
Cultivation
pg 87 "We must be cultivated to be cultivators."
pg 87 "The greatest proof of our love for Christ is that we care for those who belong to Him; ... if you love me, feed my sheep."
Continuance
pg 88 "As our Lord takes us along through the years it slowly dawns upon us that there are vast, almost infinite, areas of development through which He must still lead us."
pg 88 "Our Father strips everything away from time to time to give us the opportunity of loving and trusting and responding to Him just because He is our Father. He knows what the cross is going to mean in our lives; He knows the death-march that lies ahead of us in order that there may be resurrection life; He knows the barren, bleeding hearts beyond whom He must minister through us- hence He is going to bring us to the place where we don't care what happens: He is all that matters!"
Growth to maturity!
pg 90 " For in Christian experience the spiritual things of God are less and less outward, that is, of gift, and more and more inward, of life. In the long run it is the depth and inwardness of a work that counts."
pg 90 "His relentless processing will discourage and baffle us if we simply want heaven when we die. But if we want what He wants, all that we are taken through, including the desert, will encourage us. Thus we will continue because we know that He ever continues to work in and through us that which He began and finished on our behalf in our Lord Jesus Christ."
...."If our hearts are really true to Him we may be assured He will lead us on in the knowledge of Himself just as we are able to advance. He knows how much we can take in, and He does not fail to minister to us the very food that is suitable to our present need. We may sometimes feel inclined to be impatient with ourselves because we do not make more rapid progress, but we have to learn to trust the Lord with our spiritual education. If our eyes are upon Him, and we follow with simple hearts as He leads us, we shall find that He leads us by a right way and brings us through all the exercises we need to form our souls in the appreciation of Himself, and of all those blessed things which are brought to pass in Him. We have to trust His love all through, and to learn increasingly to distrust ourselves." - C. A. Coates
p 13 "We must get to know ourselves and that we have no strength. Thus we must learn, and then leaning on the Lord we can with more maturity, and more experientially, deal with souls."
p 14 "To taste of the grace of God is one thing; to be established in it and manifest it in character, habit, and regular life, is another."
p 15 "Fruit ripens slowly; days of sunshine and days of storm each add their share. Blessing will succeed blessing, and storm follow storm before the fruit is full grown or comes to maturity."
p 15 "in simple trust rest in HIS hands."
p 15 "All growth is progressive, and the finer the organism, the longer the process."
p 16 "allow Him to be your all in all."
p 16 "may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death" (Phil 3:10)
Acceptance
p 18 "Two questions every believer must settle as soon as possible. The one is, Does God fully accept me? and, If so, upon what basis does He do so?"
p 18 "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." (Rom 5:1)
p 20 "Our satisfaction can only spring from and rest in HIS satisfaction."
p 20 "He has accepted us in His Son, and upon this FACT we must rest our faith."
p 21 "To believe, and to be consent to be loved while unworthy, is the great secret."
p 21 "To 'hope to be better' (sense acceptable) is to FAIL to see yourself IN CHRIST ONLY."
"To be disappointed with yourself is to have believed in yourself."
p 22 "Often fear after a while produces only numbness, but love thrives on love."
p 22 "Until the Christian is absolutely and scripturally sure of his standing, he is not going to do much standing. "stand therefore" (Eph 6:14a)
Purpose
p25 "One of God's most effective means in the process is failure. So many believers are simply frantic over the fact of failure in their lives, and they will go to all lengths in trying to hide it, ignore it, or rationalize about it. And all the time they are resisting the main instrument in the Father's hand for conforming us to the likeness of His Son!"
pg 25 "Failure where self is concerned in our Christian life and service, is allowed and often engineered by God in order to turn us completely from ourselves unto His Source for our life - Christ Jesus, who never fails. Rejoice, dear friend, in your need and hunger of heart, for God says, "Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled" (Matt. 5:6). As we, in our abject need, consistency and lovingly look upon our Lord Jesus revealed to us in the Word, the Holy Spirit will quietly and effortlessly change the center and source of our lives from self to Christ - hence for each of us it will be, "Not I, but Christ."
pg 26 "If we are attracted to this present evil world, we become increasingly worldly; if we pamper and live for self, we become more and more self-centered; but when we look unto Jesus Christ, we become more and more like Him."
pg 26 "Don't try to be like Him, just look at Him. Just be occupied with Him. Forget about trying to be like Him. Instead of letting that fill your mind and heart, let Him fill it."
Preparation
pg 28 "Now it so happens that God's basic ingredient for growth is need."
pg 28 "The true value of anything is known only when it is wanted." "Wisdom and philosophy never found out God; He makes Himself known to us through our needs; necessity finds Him out."
pg 29 "In this light, our needs are invaluable! We must face up to the fact that without spiritual hunger, we cannot feed upon the Lord Jesus Christ."
pg 29 "There is a tearing down before there can be a building up. "Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up" (Hosea 6:1). This applies to both growth and service.
pg 30 "It takes a man who has discovered something of the measures of his own weakness to be patient with the foibles of others. Such a man also has a first-hand knowledge of the loving care of the Chief Shepherd, and HIs ability to heal one who has come humbly to trust in Him and Him alone."
pg 31 "Our personal, heart-breaking failure in every phase of our Christian life is our Father's preparation for HIs success on our behalf."
p 31 "To receive victory from Him is to believe His Word that solely by His grace He is, this moment, freeing us from the dominion of sin. And to believe on Him in this way is to recognize that He is doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves."
Complete in Him
pg 35 "No believer ever fell into maturity, even though he is complete in Christ. Spiritual growth necessitates heart-hunger for the Lord Jesus; determination, based upon assurance, to have that which is our in Him, plus meditation and thought."
pg 37 "Your first instinct is to prepare yourself for a big battle and then pray to God to give you the victory in it. But if you do so defeat is sure, for you have given up the ground that is yours in Christ." "'Lord, I am faced with a situation I cannot possibly meet. Thine Enemy the Devil has brought it about to compass my downfall, but I praise Thee that Thy victory is an all-inclusive victory. It covers this situation, too. I praise Thee that I have already full victory in this matter."
Appropriation
pg 39 "Life is meant to bring a succession of discoveries of our need of Christ, and with every such discovery the way is opened for a new inflow of the supply. This is the explanation of so much that we cannot otherwise understand - this plunging of us into new tests where only a fresh supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ will meet our need. And as our need is met, as we prove the sufficiency of Christ to meet our inward need, so there can be a new showing forth of His glory through us."
Identification
pg 45 "We died with Christ. He dies for us, and we died with Him...Not merely that Christ died for us, but that we died with Him."
pg 46"Because He died 'death hath no more dominion over Him,' and because of our union with Him 'sin shall not have dominion over you,' even though it is present in you. Our 'reckoning' ourselves dead to sin in Jesus Christ does not make it a fact - it is already a fact through our union with Him. Our reckoning it to be true only makes us begin to realize the fact in experience."
Consecration
pg 48 "Healthy progress is based upon the apprehension, understanding and appropriation of the truths in Christ that make for real growth. "
pg 50 "He has already taken the old life to the cross and crucified it! (Rom 6:6; Gal 2:20, 2 Tim 2:11, 1 Peter 2:24)
pg 51 "When, however, yo and I are prepared, in simple humility, to make the FACT of our death with Christ our daily basis of life and service, there is nothing that can prevent the uprising and outflow of new life, and meet the need of thirsty souls around us."
pg 51"present yourselves unto God as alive from the dead' (Rom 6:13) This is the true place of consecration." "only those "ALIVE FROM THE DEAD" - that is, having appropriated fully their likeness with Him in death - are bidden to present their members as instruments unto God."
Self
pg 53 "In service: first, "death worth in us," then, "but life in you" (2 For 4:12) All resurrection life springs out of death, else it would not be resurrection life - His risen life (Rom 6:5, 6). "
pg 56 "God works by paradox. Success comes via failure; life springs out of death, etc....He has to be led into it by the mercy the Holy Spirit - into failure; abject and total."
pg 56 "Our poor health, yes, and good health too! A thousand and one things are used by Him - in fact, everything (Rom 8:28,29), to bring out the worst in us, ultimately enabling us to see that the Christian life has to be, "not I, but Christ." People, circumstances, etc. are never the cause of failure. Self's reaction to them is the cause, and the one problem to be dealt with. "it's me, it's me, O Lord.""
Self-Denial
"The powerful effect of the cross with God, in heaven, in the blotting out of guilt, and our renewed union with Go, is inseparable from the other effect - the breaking down of the authority of sin over man, by the crucifixion of self."
The Cross
pg 63-64 "Calvary is the secret of it all. It is what He did there that counts, and what He did becomes a source in the life of a Christian when it is appropriated by faith. This is the starting point from which all Godly living must take its rise. We shall never know the experience of Christ's victory in our lives until we are prepared to count (reckon) upon HIs victory at the cross as the secret of our personal victory today. There is no victory for us which was not first His."
p65 "Two basics: freed from the penalty of sin by His finished work; freed from the power of sin by His finished work... justified by faith..we are not left to deal with the old life ourselves; it has been dealt with by Christ on the cross."
pg 66 "We applicate God's forgiveness, but we want something more than that, we want deliverance. We need forgiveness for what we have done, but we need deliverance from what we are."
pg 67 ...."I must realize that now my life is hid with Christ in God; that He is my life." - Ian Thomas
Discipleship
"A disciple is one who first maintains the fellowship of the cross, which results in fellowship with his Lord: discipleship. "The atonement of the cross and the fellowship of the cross must be equally preached as the condition for true discipleship." "Christ is the answer, but the cross is needed to clear the way for Him.""
p 70 "We will be ready to take up our cross (see the cross for what it is - a place of death) when self becomes intolerable to us, when we begin to hate our life - "and hate not...his own life...cannot be my disciple." ( Luke 14:26). The deep burden of self and hunger to be like Him cause the function of the cross - crucifixion - to become attractive. "
pg 71 "And here is how e take up and bear our cross: Finally prepared by our needs, aware that our bondage was broken in Christ on Calvary, we definitely begin to rely upon that finished work - we appropriate. Our attitude becomes: I gladly and willingly take, by faith in the facts, my finished work of emancipation that was established at Calvary; I reckon myself to be dead indeed unto sin, and alive unto God in Christ. This is taking up one's cross. As we learn to do this, we begin to find these facts true in experience." ..... Through this process we are patiently taught to walk by faith, to maintain our attitude of reliance upon the finished work of the cross. "I have been crucified with Christ"
Process of Discipleship
pg 73 "But if they are of the real elect, God has a winepress prepared for them, through which they will some day pass, which will turn the metallic hardness of their nature into gentle love, which Christ always brings forth at the last of the feast."
Rest
pg 76 "In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength." (Isaiah 30:15)
"We are to quietly and steadily look to our Father in confident trust, and thankfully receive that which He has given to us in His Son."
pg 80 "True activity is that which springs out of, and is ever accompanied by, rest. It is only as we know what it is to be 'still', that we are ready to 'go forward'. We rest on Thee, and in Thy Name we go" - E.H.
...."Let us take Him at His Word, and leave the fulfillment of it to Him."
Help
pg 81 "Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be Life itself."
pg 82-83 "S.D. Gordon admonished: "When you are in the thick of the fight, when you are the object of attack, plead less and claim more, of the ground of the blood of the Lord Jesus. I do not mean, ask God to give you victory, but claim His victory, to overshadow you."
Cultivation
pg 87 "We must be cultivated to be cultivators."
pg 87 "The greatest proof of our love for Christ is that we care for those who belong to Him; ... if you love me, feed my sheep."
Continuance
pg 88 "As our Lord takes us along through the years it slowly dawns upon us that there are vast, almost infinite, areas of development through which He must still lead us."
pg 88 "Our Father strips everything away from time to time to give us the opportunity of loving and trusting and responding to Him just because He is our Father. He knows what the cross is going to mean in our lives; He knows the death-march that lies ahead of us in order that there may be resurrection life; He knows the barren, bleeding hearts beyond whom He must minister through us- hence He is going to bring us to the place where we don't care what happens: He is all that matters!"
Growth to maturity!
pg 90 " For in Christian experience the spiritual things of God are less and less outward, that is, of gift, and more and more inward, of life. In the long run it is the depth and inwardness of a work that counts."
pg 90 "His relentless processing will discourage and baffle us if we simply want heaven when we die. But if we want what He wants, all that we are taken through, including the desert, will encourage us. Thus we will continue because we know that He ever continues to work in and through us that which He began and finished on our behalf in our Lord Jesus Christ."
...."If our hearts are really true to Him we may be assured He will lead us on in the knowledge of Himself just as we are able to advance. He knows how much we can take in, and He does not fail to minister to us the very food that is suitable to our present need. We may sometimes feel inclined to be impatient with ourselves because we do not make more rapid progress, but we have to learn to trust the Lord with our spiritual education. If our eyes are upon Him, and we follow with simple hearts as He leads us, we shall find that He leads us by a right way and brings us through all the exercises we need to form our souls in the appreciation of Himself, and of all those blessed things which are brought to pass in Him. We have to trust His love all through, and to learn increasingly to distrust ourselves." - C. A. Coates
August 26, 2021
Only read this book if you’re ready to find out that most of your understanding of God is probably self-serving rather than God-glorifying. Over and over Stanford reminds us that it’s actually more of Jesus, more of Jesus and less, even less of me.
July 2, 2025
This book was honestly really good, but after reading so many “story books”, it was hard for me to finish. Honestly, I got bored and distracted easily, but it was all on me not necessarily the book haha. The language is a little older as well so that made it impossible to read without really focusing. I had to re-read several pages. Reminded me of when I read an AW Tozer book with my dgroup in college. Good food for thought book and good reminder of the important things. I’d like to read it again when I’ve got a more ready to read attitude :))
May 20, 2017
This work is a brief (under 100 pages), but profound, examination of the Christian life. Recommended as both a good gift book and a "spiritual tune up" for those feeling in need of refreshing.
See also,
We Would See Jesus, Hession & Hession, 1958
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See also,
We Would See Jesus, Hession & Hession, 1958
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January 18, 2019
This is one of the best spiritual growth books available. Stanford starts with faith, what it is, and proceeds from there. Each chapter is self contained and fairly short but, at the same time, profound. This book is worth reading every year.
November 7, 2020
While flying to Omaha last Spring, I fulfilled a divine appointment with a gentleman on the plane who is deeply involved in ministry to veterans all around the country. Our conversation led him to send me a couple of interesting devotional books to read, and this one fell through the cracks for a while. Stanford evidently carried on a lively minsterial correspondence for about five decades with a large following, and this is one collection of his studies on spiritual growth. I read it slowly and carefully; it's jam packed with key concepts about our walk as Christians, and made note of a few things that leaped off the page at me.
Being one of those people who can be extremely self-critical when my performance isn't up to my exacting standards, this tidbit was particularly stinging.
"To be disappointed with yourself is to have believed in yourself."
As Christians, indwelt by the Holy Spirit, our strength, power and true accomplishment comes from God, and God alone, not from our own skills and abilities. Anything we do in the flesh is vanity, and allowing God to work through us, despite our weakness, is the only thing in which we should glory.
Even in evangelical circles, where we know, at least in our heads, if not in our hearts, that our salvation comes through faith and not by works, we often work like crazy to be good enough for God to love us.
"Let us cease laying down to the saints long lists of 'conditions' of entering into the blessed life in Christ; and instead, as the primal preparation for leading them into the experience of this life, show them what their position, possessions, and privileges in Christ already are. Thus shall we truly work with the Holy Spirit, and thus shall we have more, and much more abiding fruit of our labors among the people of God."
Positionally, once we are saved, we have been given by God the full inheritance of Christ's position at his side, and gifted with everything necessary to fulfill His purpose in us. But we often forget this, and spend our lives chasing proficiency in "being godly."
For those of us constantly struggling with sin,
"You believe the Lord Jesus died for your sins because God said so. Now take the next step. Accept by faith the further fact that you died with Him, i.e., that your 'old man was crucified with Him'"
Our bondage to sin was broken, and its body buried with Christ, we are risen new and free.
"Sin need have no more power over the believer than he grants it through unbelief. If he is alive unto sin it will be due largely to the fact that he has failed to reckon himself dead unto sin."
I've had, for a number of years, an aversion to the addiction some churches have to the "altar call".
"How often the average congregation is put through this routine. How often the individual believer is maneuvered down front to consecrate and reconsecrate, surrender and re-surrender, commit and recommit himself to Christ! Why is it that after awhile the believer comes to dread such meetings and messages?"
I'm hoping to find some more of Standish's correspondences in my wanderings amid the stacks at used book stores. I think he'll join C.S. Lewis on my shelves as worthy of keeping and re-reading.
Being one of those people who can be extremely self-critical when my performance isn't up to my exacting standards, this tidbit was particularly stinging.
"To be disappointed with yourself is to have believed in yourself."
As Christians, indwelt by the Holy Spirit, our strength, power and true accomplishment comes from God, and God alone, not from our own skills and abilities. Anything we do in the flesh is vanity, and allowing God to work through us, despite our weakness, is the only thing in which we should glory.
Even in evangelical circles, where we know, at least in our heads, if not in our hearts, that our salvation comes through faith and not by works, we often work like crazy to be good enough for God to love us.
"Let us cease laying down to the saints long lists of 'conditions' of entering into the blessed life in Christ; and instead, as the primal preparation for leading them into the experience of this life, show them what their position, possessions, and privileges in Christ already are. Thus shall we truly work with the Holy Spirit, and thus shall we have more, and much more abiding fruit of our labors among the people of God."
Positionally, once we are saved, we have been given by God the full inheritance of Christ's position at his side, and gifted with everything necessary to fulfill His purpose in us. But we often forget this, and spend our lives chasing proficiency in "being godly."
For those of us constantly struggling with sin,
"You believe the Lord Jesus died for your sins because God said so. Now take the next step. Accept by faith the further fact that you died with Him, i.e., that your 'old man was crucified with Him'"
Our bondage to sin was broken, and its body buried with Christ, we are risen new and free.
"Sin need have no more power over the believer than he grants it through unbelief. If he is alive unto sin it will be due largely to the fact that he has failed to reckon himself dead unto sin."
I've had, for a number of years, an aversion to the addiction some churches have to the "altar call".
"How often the average congregation is put through this routine. How often the individual believer is maneuvered down front to consecrate and reconsecrate, surrender and re-surrender, commit and recommit himself to Christ! Why is it that after awhile the believer comes to dread such meetings and messages?"
I'm hoping to find some more of Standish's correspondences in my wanderings amid the stacks at used book stores. I think he'll join C.S. Lewis on my shelves as worthy of keeping and re-reading.
January 27, 2024
What a wonderful explanation of basic Christian principles! Author Miles Stanford explains both the theory and practice of Christian living and growth.
He begins with the cross and explains that trying hard to overcome sin is not enough. We must totally die to sin and realize our death daily. But our death leads to our resurrection in Christ. Having Christ live in us is how we triumph.
How can this miracle be achieved? Not by us. But Christ has already done it. It is up to us to believe and to claim His life and to live it through faith and perseverance.
Mr. Stanford draws from a wide range of respected Christian authors and teachers as well as many quotes from the Bible to prove his points.
I recommend this book most highly to anyone who wishes to learn about Christianity.
He begins with the cross and explains that trying hard to overcome sin is not enough. We must totally die to sin and realize our death daily. But our death leads to our resurrection in Christ. Having Christ live in us is how we triumph.
How can this miracle be achieved? Not by us. But Christ has already done it. It is up to us to believe and to claim His life and to live it through faith and perseverance.
Mr. Stanford draws from a wide range of respected Christian authors and teachers as well as many quotes from the Bible to prove his points.
I recommend this book most highly to anyone who wishes to learn about Christianity.
June 2, 2019
This is the most profound book for spiritual growth. You won't find this being taught in church. These are truths of "pure" grace. We grow in Christ like we are saved...all by pure grace and nothing we can do to deserve that. These truths are the ones that mature a person through suffering of experience and brings much comfort. Who are we in Christ, How are we placed in Him...positioned in Him, His working transforming us into His image taking time...a long journey on this side of heaven til He takes us home. How He died and we die with Him overcoming sin and having victory.
Trust me this will change your life as it did mine and kept me with my husband learning to have grace with him and he with me. You won't be disappointed.....
Trust me this will change your life as it did mine and kept me with my husband learning to have grace with him and he with me. You won't be disappointed.....
April 5, 2023
I rather enjoyed the beginning stages of this book. I found it enjoyable to see the perspectives of those who have come before me. As I continued in reading I began to not understand the ideas because of the language that was used and began to lose interest at a rapid pace. By the end I felt as the book was trying to find new ways to say the same thing over and over. I also found myself beginning to disagree with the writer on terminology that they used which left me frustrated with the book.
November 23, 2021
Absolutely loved this book. I got so many good quotes and verses from each chapter, and I highly recommend. It really taught me the importance of staying patient with God and trusting in His plan for my life. He has me exactly where He wants me, and my job is to trust His promises and root my feelings in the facts of His word.
December 24, 2023
The prose of this book was insufferable, If you must a book on this topic, read Walking in Victory it covers the same thing in much easier to read way. Though that book likes to throw out a lot of out of pocket claims and not elaborate, but at least its easier to read. You gotta take the good with the bad
July 25, 2024
Highly recommend all christian’s to read this book! Even if you don’t typically read theology, this book lays out the foundational principles of Christian life and growth. It does so in an easy-to-read manner without all the theology mumble-jumble that other books have.
February 19, 2025
The principles in this book are great and I recommend really taking your time to digest and reflect on them, despite how short the book is.
My only critique is sometimes the wording was confusing and it was heavily quotes which made me feel lost at some points.
My only critique is sometimes the wording was confusing and it was heavily quotes which made me feel lost at some points.
May 1, 2025
So good!! Some of his ideas or quotes literally stopped me in my tracks and made me rethink ideas I have heard many times but did not understand as well until after I read this book - cannot recommend this enough.
January 10, 2018
Pretty helpful primer on discipleship. Some influence of over-realized eschatology is evident.
May 30, 2018
Worthwhile read! The chapters are short which is really nice. Dense material but insightful.
March 7, 2019
Wow. So much biblical truth packed into 91 pages.
August 15, 2019
This is a book that needs to be reread and reread. There are so many truths packed in each sentence.
June 5, 2020
A true must-read.
And no I don't say that about everything.
And no I don't say that about everything.
January 21, 2023
3.5⭐️
December 29, 2023
An all time book for me. A book that I will read every year and continue to remind myself of the sweet truths of walking with Jesus. If you haven’t read this PLEASE READ!!!!
October 27, 2024
Recommended by J.K. There were great one liners, but overall not my favorite kind of writing for the spiritual life.
January 10, 2025
A good read for any Christian. This is in many ways a collection of very succinct and insightful quotes from various authors. However, it's presented in a very readable and useful way.
December 27, 2025
Did this as a group read/discipleship. We did a chapter a week. It is a great tool for conversation and growth with other mature believers.
April 21, 2021
You're a Christian. Now what? Stanford dives into the next steps in your relationship with God. How to thrive and understand what salvation means even after you "pray the prayer". I highly recommend this book for any Christian that feels stuck and in need of nourishment from Scripture-based wisdom.
April 7, 2016
This book clearly describes details of our life in Christ in a manner that brings relief to people who may have mixed in works with their faith. I appreciate the resources used of teachings from solid Christian authors from many years ago who were sound in Biblical understanding of our new life in Christ. When I sense myself striving in my Christian walk, I return to this book to "reset" my compass.
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