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No Quick Fix : Where Higher Life Theology Came From, What It Is, and Why It's Harmful.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ashland : Lexham Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781577997283
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No Quick Fix : Where Higher Life Theology Came From, What It Is, and Why It's HarmfulOnline resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- I Tried to "Let Go and Let God" -- Evaluating Higher Life Theology -- Why Is Higher Life Theology so Popular? -- Who Should Read This Book? -- How This Book Evaluates Higher Life Theology -- Part 1: Where Higher Life Theology Came from and What It Is -- Chapter 1: What Is the Story of Higher Life Theology? -- 1. Where Did Higher Life Theology Come From? -- Wesleyan Perfectionism: Perfect Love toward God and Humans -- The Holiness Movement: Modified Wesleyan Perfectionism -- 2. Who Initially Popularized Higher Life Theology? -- The Higher Life Movement -- The Early Keswick Movement -- 3. What Are Some Influential Variations on Higher Life Theology? -- The Christian and Missionary Alliance: Founded by A. B. Simpson -- Moody Bible Institute: Led by D. L. Moody, R. A. Torrey, and James M. Gray -- Pentecostalism: A Product of Wesleyan Perfectionism, the Holiness Movement, Higher Life Theology, A. B. Simpson, D. L. Moody, and R. A. Torrey -- Dallas Theological Seminary: Bastion of the Chaferian View of Sanctification -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: What Is Higher Life Theology? -- Day 1. The Diagnosis: Sin -- Day 2. The Cure: God's Provision for Victorious Christian Living -- Fundamental Proposition: There Are Two Categories of Christians -- Problem: Wrong Views on Sanctification Result in Defeat (Category 1) -- Solution: Sanctification by Faith Results in Victory (Category 2) -- Day 3. The Crisis for the Cure: Consecration -- Step 1: "Let Go" (Surrender) -- Step 2: "Let God" (Faith) -- "Let Go" + "Let God" = Consecration -- Day 4. The Prescription: Spirit-Filling -- Is Spirit-Filling Different than Spirit-Baptism? -- Who Can Experience Spirit-Filling? -- What Is Spirit-Filling? -- What Are the Conditions and Results of Spirit-Filling?.
Day 5. The Mission: Powerful Christian Service -- Conclusion -- Part 2: Why Higher Life Theology Is Harmful -- Chapter 3: The Fundamental Reason Higher Life Theology Is Harmful -- 1. All Christians Are Both Justified and Being Sanctified -- 2. All Christians Are Spiritual -- None Are Permanently Carnal (1 Corinthians 2:6-3:4) -- 3. All Christians Are Spirit-Baptized (1 Corinthians 12:13) -- 4. All Christians Are Spirit-Filled to Various Degrees (Ephesians 5:18) -- What Does "Be Filled" Mean? -- What Does "With the Spirit" Mean? -- What Are Results of Spirit-Filling? -- How Do You Obey the Command "Be Filled with the Spirit"? -- Are All Christians Spirit-Filled? -- Doesn't a Command Imply that You Either Obey It or Disobey It? -- 5. All Christians Abide in Christ to Various Degrees (John 15:1-10) -- What Does the Metaphor of Abiding Mean (John 15:1-6)? -- What Does Jesus' Command to Abide Mean (John 15:4a)? -- What Reasons Does Jesus Give for Abiding (John 15:4-6)? -- How Does Jesus Explain Abiding (John 15:7-10)? -- Chapter 4: Nine More Reasons Higher Life Theology Is Harmful -- Reason 2. A Form of Perfectionism -- How Christians Should Deal with Sin -- Old Self vs. New Self -- Old Nature vs. New Nature -- Three Problems with How Higher Life Theology Views Sin in the Christian -- Reason 3. A Form of Quietism -- Reason 4. A Form of Pelagianism -- Reason 5. Misreading -- Reason 6. False Assurance -- Reason 7. Methodology -- Reason 8. Addiction -- Reason 9. Abuse -- Reason 10. Spin -- Conclusion -- Afterword (John MacArthur) -- Appendix: A More Excellent Way: Recommended Resources on the Christian Life -- Acknowledgments -- Subject and Name Index -- Index of Scripture -- Old Testament -- New Testament.
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Every Christian struggles with sin and wants to be victorious in the fight.

Higher life theology--also known as Keswick theology--offers a quick fix for this struggle. It teaches that there are two categories of Christians: those who are merely saved, and those who have really surrendered to Christ. Those who have Jesus as their Savior alone, and those who have him as their Master as well. If Christians can simply "let go and let God" they can be free of struggling with sin and brought to that higher level of spiritual life. What could be wrong with that?

A lot, it turns out. In No Quick Fix , a shorter and more accessible version of his book Let Go and Let God? , Naselli critiques higher life theology from a biblical perspective. He shows that it leads not to freedom, but to frustration, because it promises something it has no power to deliver. Along the way, he tells the story of where higher life theology came from, describes its characteristics, and compares it to what the Bible really says about how we overcome sin and become more like Christ.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- I Tried to "Let Go and Let God" -- Evaluating Higher Life Theology -- Why Is Higher Life Theology so Popular? -- Who Should Read This Book? -- How This Book Evaluates Higher Life Theology -- Part 1: Where Higher Life Theology Came from and What It Is -- Chapter 1: What Is the Story of Higher Life Theology? -- 1. Where Did Higher Life Theology Come From? -- Wesleyan Perfectionism: Perfect Love toward God and Humans -- The Holiness Movement: Modified Wesleyan Perfectionism -- 2. Who Initially Popularized Higher Life Theology? -- The Higher Life Movement -- The Early Keswick Movement -- 3. What Are Some Influential Variations on Higher Life Theology? -- The Christian and Missionary Alliance: Founded by A. B. Simpson -- Moody Bible Institute: Led by D. L. Moody, R. A. Torrey, and James M. Gray -- Pentecostalism: A Product of Wesleyan Perfectionism, the Holiness Movement, Higher Life Theology, A. B. Simpson, D. L. Moody, and R. A. Torrey -- Dallas Theological Seminary: Bastion of the Chaferian View of Sanctification -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: What Is Higher Life Theology? -- Day 1. The Diagnosis: Sin -- Day 2. The Cure: God's Provision for Victorious Christian Living -- Fundamental Proposition: There Are Two Categories of Christians -- Problem: Wrong Views on Sanctification Result in Defeat (Category 1) -- Solution: Sanctification by Faith Results in Victory (Category 2) -- Day 3. The Crisis for the Cure: Consecration -- Step 1: "Let Go" (Surrender) -- Step 2: "Let God" (Faith) -- "Let Go" + "Let God" = Consecration -- Day 4. The Prescription: Spirit-Filling -- Is Spirit-Filling Different than Spirit-Baptism? -- Who Can Experience Spirit-Filling? -- What Is Spirit-Filling? -- What Are the Conditions and Results of Spirit-Filling?.

Day 5. The Mission: Powerful Christian Service -- Conclusion -- Part 2: Why Higher Life Theology Is Harmful -- Chapter 3: The Fundamental Reason Higher Life Theology Is Harmful -- 1. All Christians Are Both Justified and Being Sanctified -- 2. All Christians Are Spiritual -- None Are Permanently Carnal (1 Corinthians 2:6-3:4) -- 3. All Christians Are Spirit-Baptized (1 Corinthians 12:13) -- 4. All Christians Are Spirit-Filled to Various Degrees (Ephesians 5:18) -- What Does "Be Filled" Mean? -- What Does "With the Spirit" Mean? -- What Are Results of Spirit-Filling? -- How Do You Obey the Command "Be Filled with the Spirit"? -- Are All Christians Spirit-Filled? -- Doesn't a Command Imply that You Either Obey It or Disobey It? -- 5. All Christians Abide in Christ to Various Degrees (John 15:1-10) -- What Does the Metaphor of Abiding Mean (John 15:1-6)? -- What Does Jesus' Command to Abide Mean (John 15:4a)? -- What Reasons Does Jesus Give for Abiding (John 15:4-6)? -- How Does Jesus Explain Abiding (John 15:7-10)? -- Chapter 4: Nine More Reasons Higher Life Theology Is Harmful -- Reason 2. A Form of Perfectionism -- How Christians Should Deal with Sin -- Old Self vs. New Self -- Old Nature vs. New Nature -- Three Problems with How Higher Life Theology Views Sin in the Christian -- Reason 3. A Form of Quietism -- Reason 4. A Form of Pelagianism -- Reason 5. Misreading -- Reason 6. False Assurance -- Reason 7. Methodology -- Reason 8. Addiction -- Reason 9. Abuse -- Reason 10. Spin -- Conclusion -- Afterword (John MacArthur) -- Appendix: A More Excellent Way: Recommended Resources on the Christian Life -- Acknowledgments -- Subject and Name Index -- Index of Scripture -- Old Testament -- New Testament.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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