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How People Grow: What the Bible Reveals About Personal Growth
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A bit too long, but a great practical book on spiritual growth.
For us to grow, God's role is to be the source/provider. Our role is to depend on the source. We depend on God for life and for all that we need. God's role was and is to provide. Our role was and is to receive.
To solve life's problems and grow spiritually are one and the same.
In redemption, we come back to God as the source of life. We retreat from our independence from him and our attempt to be self-made.
The Body of Christ is a big part of the delivery system of healing and growth that God has in store for His people. For people to grow, they must discover that God is for them and not against them.
We do not grow because of willpower but because of God's provision.
Grace means that we receive the gifts we need for growth to occur. We don't willpower our way there.
The theology of redemption is one of total destruction, of starting all over again. We are not "improved"
The self-esteem trip is a dead end. The answer is to have them feel connected to love.
Jesus said that he did not come into the world to judge or condemn it. If this is true, then how on earth did the institution he began turn into one of guiltiest places on earth?
For us to grow, God's role is to be the source/provider. Our role is to depend on the source. We depend on God for life and for all that we need. God's role was and is to provide. Our role was and is to receive.
To solve life's problems and grow spiritually are one and the same.
In redemption, we come back to God as the source of life. We retreat from our independence from him and our attempt to be self-made.
The Body of Christ is a big part of the delivery system of healing and growth that God has in store for His people. For people to grow, they must discover that God is for them and not against them.
We do not grow because of willpower but because of God's provision.
Grace means that we receive the gifts we need for growth to occur. We don't willpower our way there.
The theology of redemption is one of total destruction, of starting all over again. We are not "improved"
The self-esteem trip is a dead end. The answer is to have them feel connected to love.
Jesus said that he did not come into the world to judge or condemn it. If this is true, then how on earth did the institution he began turn into one of guiltiest places on earth?
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December 27, 2009
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December 27, 2009
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July 8, 2010
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Apr 14, 2018 07:32AM
Jeff I nearly always read your reviews because I like a lot of what you read. In this review you seem to be condemning the church as a whole. Is that what you meant to do? Dick Freeman www.lincolnogo.net
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