Three Steps Forward Two Steps Back: a step by step guide to the Christian life - Softcover

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God had just spoken to me. This was a word from God and I knew it. I elbowed myself upright out of a terrible slouch to pray a response back to God, Huh, what? Is this really God? No, I can't. Then God, in His firm yet loving voice, spoke into my head again, You will write for Me a book and call it ‘Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back.’So how does, “Sometimes in the Christian life it feels like we’re moving three steps forward and two steps back,” become an encouraging Gospel message? Nothing about that statement feels encouraging. It describes a pattern of failure immediately following success. But there are two sides to failure: the catastrophic event and coming out the other side. And yet…Sin, taken at a purely mechanical level, is a failure to live up to the standards set for us by God. It is the catastrophic side of failure. The other side of this failure is the redemption won for us by Christ on the cross. Redemption is the other side of failure! This is a life with direction, purpose, and balance. In this book I lay out a model for experiencing the complete Christian life, breaking it down one step at a time, so that you can have a clear and concise understanding of what each step requires both of you and of God.

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