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    Integrity: The Broken Link to Biblical Success
    Integrity: The Broken Link to Biblical Success
    Integrity: The Broken Link to Biblical Success
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    Integrity: The Broken Link to Biblical Success

    By Dennis Cook

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    Many people, families and ministries end up on the trash heap because of a lack of integrity. This book helps us see Gods view on this important aspect of our lives and the effects it has on our relationship with Him and our success in completing our work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

    As the Body of Christ, we must to the best of our abilities walk as an integer with our Heavenly Father, our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. The integrity of our heart will lead us to make the correct decisions to further ourselves, our families and our ministries.

    A simple, practical book on how to apply the biblical principles to our daily lives and walk in the blessing that are promised to them that walk in integrity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateAug 2, 2013
    ISBN9781475983876
    Integrity: The Broken Link to Biblical Success
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    Dennis Cook

    Dennis Cook, his wife and family moved to Panama in 1981 after completing a bachelor’s degree and two years at Rhema Bible Training Center. After two years working in a Leper hospital, they went to the Darien jungle to minister to the Choco Indians. His passion is to help people walk correctly before God and man.

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      Integrity - Dennis Cook

      Copyright © 2013 Dennis Cook.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-8386-9 (sc)

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      Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      Chapter One       What is Biblical Integrity?

      Chapter Two       Who Needs to Walk in Integrity?

      Chapter Three       Integrity and Character Above the Anointing

      Chapter Four       Our Response is Already Established

      Chapter Five       Integrity Will Guide, Uphold and Protect Us

      Chapter Six       Integrity in Our Homes and Communities

      Chapter Seven       Integrity and Your Faith

      Chapter Eight       Integrity in Our Churches

      Chapter Nine       Are We Profitable?

      Chapter Ten       Three Levels of Integrity

      Chapter Eleven       Proverbs 6:7-23

      Chapter Twelve       Steps to Maintain Your Integrity

      Chapter Thirteen       Grey Areas

      Chapter Fourteen       Impact of Our Integrity

      Chapter Fifteen       Your Day in Court

      Chapter Sixteen       Can God Count on Us?

      About the Author

      Endnotes

      Acknowledgements

      I would like to give a big thanks to the many people who provided very valuable help in getting this cry of my heart into print.

      Of course a very special thanks goes to my lovely and long time friend and helpmeet, Jeanne who has spent years in encouraging and supporting me to make this happen.

      Also I want to thank the rest of my family, Christopher, Jennifer, Jason and Chad, as they allowed me to spend time necessary to bring to fruition this book.

      And very importantly the many ministers of God who shared their valuable input I needed to write this.

      Thank you pastors Kim Ernst, Loren Hirschy, Rich Houston and Virgil Stokes, for your encouragement and help in doing this. You all are examples of living integrity.

      Introduction

      For many years as a missionary serving the Lord outside of the United States of America, I have witnessed the negative effect that the lack of integrity within the Body of Christ has had on the success of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

      Each time that my family and I returned to the United States, I would scour the Christian bookstores to try and find works about integrity. With sadness I found very little on this important subject. Some of the books that I did find were out of print.

      I asked myself why. Was the reason because there were few people interested in it? I know that interest for a subject plays a very important part of the decision to publish. Was it a business decision that stifled the desire to address the lack of integrity in our culture? In the Church, had we lost this vital aspect to the success of the Gospel?

      Success! What is success? We need to know what God’s definition of success is. How can we hit the target if we do not know what the target is or what it looks like?

      Is Godly success having a new vehicle for every member of our family that drives? Is it having a big expensive home to live in or a Rolex watch on our wrist? Is it having the largest church in town or one of the biggest ministries in the country? Is it to be famous or in demand to speak at Christian conferences?

      If any of these things are part of the vision that God has for you, than the answer is yes. However these things may only be an appearance of success if we are involved in building our own kingdom. If God’s plan for your ministry is expressed with cars, expensive homes etc. then He will bring it about without your participation if that participation includes lack of integrity.

      The accumulation of things could be used by the Holy Spirit to draw others to hear the Gospel of Salvation. However it could be used by the enemy to divert God called ministers from their God given vision. This is warned about in the third part of the parable of the sower in Mark chapter four where it talks about the deceitfulness of riches and how it chokes out the fruit.

      Are we doing our part, to the best of our ability, to further the Kingdom of God or are we producing more firewood for a bond fire at the end of our physical existence here on the earth?

      I don’t pretend to know the answer to this situation existing in all aspects of our lives today including the Church. I do know that if we want true success, whether in the secular world or in the Church, we must return to the integrity of the Bible.

      I felt that I needed to express the cry of my heart to encourage others with the same conviction of the Holy Spirit to continue to stand for God and His character allowing the world to see the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

      I pray that all who read these pages will do so with an open heart to hear what the Spirit of God has to say and to resist the temptation to condemn those who may

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