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We may try to control ourselves and others.
We may try to please God and to earn God's love. After a while we find ourselves exhausted and discouraged, and we may feel even more alienated from God.
Jeff VanVonderen, Dale Ryan and Juanita Ryan understand this problem because they have been there both personally and professionally. And they are prepared to help you rebuild your spiritual life. If you find yourself living out a burdensome and unfulfilling spirituality, this book is for you. If you are longing to have a relationship with God that works, this book can show you the way.
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We wondered how we could fall into such a spiritually abusive church the second time around. Then we realized that we had been conditioned that way, just as an abuse victim thinks that somehow they "deserve" what they get from their perpetrators. Nothing could be farther from the truth! A false view of God drove us into abusive church situations. This book uncovers what those various false views of God are-beginning with the basic tenet that God loves His children!
Too many churches don't teach that or honestly believe it. Do you feel like you keep trying harder to earn God's love, but it still isn't enough?
The beauty of this book is that it doesn't just identity the problem, but gives practical helps to restore one with a biblical view of God and rebuild one's relationship with the true God of the Bible. Have questions about eBooks? Check out our eBook FAQs. Do you fear that God is angry with you? Do you wonder if God is really for you? Deep down many of us believe that we are not good enough, and never will be good enough, to have a meaningful relationship with God.
This is because we have been spiritually trained in ways that have left us with distorted and inadequate spiritualities of four different kinds: We may try to get it right. We may try to control ourselves and others.
We may try to please God and to earn God's love. After a while we find ourselves exhausted and discouraged, and we may feel even more alienated from God.
Jeff VanVonderen, Dale Ryan and Juanita Ryan understand this problem because they have been there both personally and professionally. And they are prepared to help you rebuild your spiritual life. If you find yourself living out a burdensome and unfulfilling spirituality, this book is for you. If you are longing to have a relationship with God that works, this book can show you the way. Jeff VanVonderen is a speaker and consultant in the areas of addiction, family systems and recovery.
He is also an assistant professor of recovery ministry and director of the Fuller Institute for Recovery Ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary.