Grown-up Faith
The Big Picture for a Bigger Life
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Why isn't life everything we expected it to be? And why doesn't our faith resolve our frustrations and problems?
Kevin Myers, the founding pastor of 12Stone Church, a congregation of more than 30,000 active attenders near Atlanta, believes the reason we don't experience a transformed life is that we fail to grow up spiritually. We focus on developing physically, intellectually, emotionally, and financially, yet our faith remains immature and anemic.
In this powerful new book, Myers offers a deep yet simple roadmap to a grown-up faith through understanding the whole context of the Bible, developing spiritual intimacy with God, and gratefully embracing holy obedience.
As you understand the Bible and the big picture of God's story with humanity, you begin to find answers to life's most compelling questions. As you begin to understand God more, your longing and ability to experience spiritual intimacy with him increases, as does your desire to obey what God asks of you and your ability to follow through. This is the way to the bigger life, a life even better than you expected--or even dreamed possible.
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Myers (Home Run) founding pastor of 12Stone Church in Gwinnett County, Ga. sternly addresses the question of why many Christians appear to have an uncommitted faith and live the same lives as non-Christians, concluding that they have not "grown-up" into their faith. Myers defines spiritual maturity as a transformation of the mind, heart, and will, and believes that many Christians excel in one area but often neglect the other two. For him, this imbalance manifests as intellectualism, emotionalism, or legalism depending on which aspect becomes the focus. Comprehensive growth, he writes, is rooted in close reading of the Bible, and he meticulously explains his belief that the Old and New Testament serve as a perfect mirror, divided by the birth of Jesus. To help readers rebalance their faith, he constructs sections around strengthening each of his three fundamental aspects: discussions of ceremonial law appeal to the mind; descriptions of the tabernacle are meant to affect the heart; and his conclusions about God's all-encompassing power, drawn from the book of Revelations, aim to reinforce reader's faith and willpower. Myers's evangelical overview of the Bible is both a practical guide to dynamic spiritual growth and an intricate work of apologetics.
