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    Steps to Faith: Examine Faith—Explore Questions—Encounter God: Where Inquiring Friends Become Solid Disciples
    Steps to Faith: Examine Faith—Explore Questions—Encounter God: Where Inquiring Friends Become Solid Disciples
    Steps to Faith: Examine Faith—Explore Questions—Encounter God: Where Inquiring Friends Become Solid Disciples
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    Steps to Faith: Examine Faith—Explore Questions—Encounter God: Where Inquiring Friends Become Solid Disciples

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    Everyone Has a Unique Pathway to Faith.
    Take the First Step!
    - Perhaps you are open to the Christian faith, but in no way convinced. You have legitimate questions or lingering doubts.
    - Perhaps you seek a spiritual rooting--that comes from deep beliefs.
    - Perhaps you hope to experience the living God--in a way that's real and sticks.
    - Perhaps you are searching for something compelling--a vision for your life!

    If you are willing, simply, to take the first exploring step, this booklet charts the way forward. It fulfills Jesus's promise that "those who seek will find." Welcome to a discovery-path of unlimited potential. It can bless you--beyond measure!

    Vignettes Inside:
    The First Step - A Tale of Two Operators - Jesus: Poser or Pedigree? - Something Has Gone Really Wrong! - Jesus Came to Fix What We Can't - The Meaning of the Cross - The Sign of the Resurrection - What's Unique about Christianity - Miscues in Approaching Faith - Faith & Flying - Navigating Forward - Rear View Mirror - Stepping Up - What Surfers Know

    To pursue your questions, curiosity, and longings, Steps to Faith can be read personally, with a Christian friend, or by a class/group at church.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateJan 21, 2014
    ISBN9781630873349
    Steps to Faith: Examine Faith—Explore Questions—Encounter God: Where Inquiring Friends Become Solid Disciples

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      Steps to Faith - Resource Publications

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      Steps to Faith

      Examine Faith • Explore Questions • Encounter God

      Where Inquiring Friends Become Solid Disciples

      Gary Comer

      Volume 1

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      Steps to Faith

      Examine Faith • Explore Questions • Encounter God

      Where Inquiring Friends Become Solid Disciples, volume 1

      The Missional Engagement Series

      Copyright © 2014 Gary Comer. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

      Resource Publications

      An Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers

      199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3

      Eugene, OR 97401

      www.wipfandstock.com

      isbn 13: 978-1-62032-817-0

      eisbn 13: 978-1-63087-334-9

      Manufactured in the U.S.A.

      Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 Biblica. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

      The NIV and New International Version trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica. Use of either trademark requires the permission of Biblica.

      The Missional Engagement Series

      Volume 1

      Steps to Faith

      Examine Faith • Explore Questions • Encounter God

      Where Inquiring Friends Become Solid Disciples

      Volume 2

      FIRST STEPS Discipleship Training

      FIRST STEPS Discipleship Training: Leader’s Guide

      Turning Newer Believers Into Missional Disciples

      Volume 3

      Elevate

      Experience the Power of Lift

      Raising Up Missional Members

      Volume 4

      Launch Point

      Community Group Mission Guide

      Moving Small Groups into Mission

      I had the appointed privilege of taking discovery journeys with two open-minded skeptics, one a staunch atheist, and the other a disbelieving theist. After meeting weekly for a nine-month stretch, both became Christians only two weeks apart. During that amazing odyssey, God revealed to me from their lives The Steps to Faith. This book is appropriately dedicated to my dear friends now in the Lord, David Guido and Anita Pearson.

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      The Missional Engagement Series

      Reflected in the hub design, The Missional Engagement Series is not one-dimensional or linear, but rather, a holistic layout. Two concepts are critical. First, mission is taught in every phase. Never considered optional or ancillary, being a disciple is about being on mission for Jesus. Second, the design develops disciples progressively in stages. By this, it recognizes how Christian maturation actually occurs, needing reinforcement and refinement over time.

      Threaded themes drive the curriculum in a compelling way:

      These materials create habits and experiences to shape Christ-likened character and skills. Each vehicle can work independently, yet they fit within a grand design for synergistic impact.

      Steps to Faith Interactive

      Please know that there is total flexibility with using this material. If you are looking to facilitate smaller groups, I have placed interactive questions in the back portion. Another option is to have the members read sections beforehand and then meet to discuss. For classes, teachers will want to use questions interactively as they expound on the course content.

      Session One

      Core Beliefs

      Part One

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      The First Step

      It is a dangerous business going out your door—you step on the road and if you don’t keep your feet there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.

      —Bilbo Baggins

      There is an episode in the epic tale, The Lord of the Rings , when Frodo must leave his home to venture into a world he had never seen. Little did he know of what lie ahead. How could he have anticipated all that would be set in motion—by putting his hand to the knob—and taking that first footfall from his Shire door? Every great adventure begins with a first step. Without it, Frodo wouldn’t have had his quest. And we wouldn’t have gotten to enjoy an amazing story!

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      With no lesser scope of grandeur, the first step of one’s spiritual journey may be the biggest. Since the spiritual life is measured in the heart, the initial step must be the open-willingness to explore spiritual truth. Sadly, many people never take a serious look at what faith offers. They are like window shoppers who quickly glance but do not enter. Because of reluctance, they never truly open their hearts to what God has in store for them.

      Perhaps, you are different! You are reading this book either by yourself, with a friend or in a class. Are you willing to take a good look at the incredible claims of the

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