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.gif) The strap line of the Grace Project – “Discover who you really are” – articulates the heart of the first phase of our journey.
As we move into the next phase of life with these initial concepts, which we call birth truths, now embedded our focus is on becoming who we really are.Indeed there is a saying by Ian Thomas which states, “There are two types of people in the world – those who live a life that they don’t have and those who have a life that they don’t live!”
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The Bonsai Conspiracy definitely belongs in my list of the most influential books I have read. Why? Because it is a book that breeds HOPE, a fresh, vital, living HOPE, of the genuine possibility of developing that life of grace and freedom, which Christ promised his followers and which so many Christians get to talk about but so few of us actually get to live. Much of the Christian literature that I have read, seems to suggest that we can self-improve our way into Heaven.
If only we could teach ourselves to: think in the right way; act towards others in the right way; feel (or completely ignore our feelings!) in the right way, pray and do our devotions in the right way, THEN, if we get it right and do enough of it, God will come and things will be better. In Bonsai, Paul Anderson-Walsh directly counteracts this 'self-improvement' lie. He speaks about self-replacement and NOT self-improvement. What a relief it was to finally hear this truth! He believes that it is only when we have finally exhausted our own resources and effort, and hit “burnout”, that dependence on the False self is destroyed and we can thus truly begin to live according to God's grace and strength. - to buy click here
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 “This book will inspire and encourage you. It will indeed cause you to feel safe and sound. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself experiencing an inward sigh of relief as you read. The three phases of Christian maturity discussed in chapters four and five stimulated my mind. My emotions were stirred by a renewed sense of deep joy as I read the extensive description of agape in chapter seven. The tenth chapter is one of the best apologetics for the security of the believer that I have seen. I wish every new Christian would read that chapter within the first month of their new life in Christ.”
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This book is the first in a trilogy that will take you on a journey into spiritual maturity. This journey is a pilgrimage into wholeness in God and oneness with God. There are three clear phases of the Christian life; the child phase, the teen phase and the father phase. Each phase has its climax the child phase results in confidence in God; in the teen phase we appropriate the competence of God and in the father phase we become the confidants of God. As we journey through each phase you will be drawn into a deeper and more profound level of intimacy with Christ. But it begins with a revelation; the child’s revelation that first and foremost you believe that God is Love and loves you and that and secondly all your sins past, present and future have been forgiven. - to buy click here
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Exert from Chapter 1: When I Was A Child
I well remember the day I decided to go back and visit my Primary School. I cannot remember what occasioned the visit but the impression etched in my mind that day somehow seemed to fit neatly as I searched for a context into which to set forth this chapter.
Just before popping in to say hello to the Headmaster, I thought I would use the bathroom. However, when I reached the bathroom, the very same one I had used during my time as a pupil at St George’s R.C., I have to tell you that I was shocked by what I saw. The toilet had shrunk!
I could not quite believe it. Since I had left, they had miniaturised the toilets! How on earth was anybody supposed to use them? Eventually, when I saw my old Form Mistress, Miss Lovell (a dear lady if ever there was one), I noticed that they had done the same thing to the desks in her classroom! I just could not believe it! It was most disorientating. My school had become a doll’s house! Now, of course, the desks and the toilet were the same size as they had always been. The fixtures and fittings had not shrunk. I had grown and now, everything was too small for me.
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In a very real way, my disorientation sets the scene for what readers of Safe & Sound are likely to experience in the pages of this current book for here, the spiritual child is now a young adult. He has grown up. His previous view of the Scriptures, with all its apparent literalism, now seems too narrow, much like the miniature plimsolls which hung on the hooks in the cloakrooms at school. It’s hard to imagine that anything of that size was once too large for him. The little lunch sacks which hung there also apparently contained enough food to sustain the hungry pupil until suppertime. Such a meal, which satisfied the child then, would now leave the ravenous teenager famished.
What had once been the great desk of Justification By Faith under which the child swung his legs is now too cramped and too small to sit at. What was once the vast playground in which he learnt of the nature and scope of salvation now seems to be no more than a postage stamp and altogether too claustrophobic for him to accommodate the circumference of his ever increasing circle of inclusion. Oh yes, undoubtedly, the difference between the spiritual child and the spiritual teenager is vast.
The other thing which strikes me as I reflect back on my primary school days is the method of teaching favoured at that time. Education seemed to consist largely of the cramming of a large amount of information (such as vocabulary and multiplication tables) into me. I was forever memorising things. It was not until many years later when I began to train people myself that I realised that education was not about getting stuff in but getting what was inside out. This getting-what-is-on-the-inside-out is what the second phase of the spiritual life is all about.
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