To Serve With All Your Strength Author:Fran Sciacca What does it take to be an authentic Christian? Christians are supposed to be different. But how can Christians develop a faith that is more than skin deep in a world of simulated everything where reality can be virtual and truth relative? Becoming an authentic, sanctified Christian is a life-long process. Through a study of 12 biblical charact... more »ers including Paul, Job, Titus, and others, Fran Sciacca guides readers forward in the journey toward spiritual maturity. As they progress along this path from salvation to service, they will be challenged to do a personal examination of their lives under the guidance of God's Word. This examination will bring to light-and help them remove-obstacles to spiritual growth. Sciacca invites readers to a place of authentic inner change where they can learn to serve God with all their strength! To Serve With All Your Strength helps readers see and understand what the life of a genuine reborn believer should "look like" to the watching world. The indwelling Holy Spirit's desire is to empower and change His followers. They are to cooperate with Him in His work of making them resemble Jesus Christ more and more-a process called sanctification. In this Spirit-empowered life, success, wealth, and leadership take on new and unique definitions. It is a life characterized by transformed thought patterns, behavior, and speech. Priorities are so rearranged that believers become radically different from the culture surrounding them. And because this Spirit-empowered life carries great credibility, it is a life capable of exerting great influence on the watching world. Each chapter of To Serve With All Your Strength enables a reader to examine an area of his or her life that God seeks to remodel so that it better reflects the life of Jesus. Each chapter is a challenge to think and live outside of one's comfort zone-like Christ, who lived outside of the comfort zone all the time!« less
Is a Christian supposed to be different? What distinguishes you as a Christian? What do people notice more: the Christian bumper sticker on your car or the ever-growing charcter of Christ in yhour life?