I Give Up! Why You Can’t Live the Christian Life
By John Ankerberg and Wayne Barber
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Do you ever feel like it's impossible to live the Christian life? That's because it is! Join Dr. Ankerberg as he interviews pastor, international speaker, author, and President of Living Grace Ministries, Dr. Wayne Barber, on what the Bible really says about living for Christ. These three practical programs answer key questions on how to experience Christ's power in your daily walk.
John Ankerberg
Host of the award-winning John Ankerberg Show, has three earned degrees: an MA in church history and the philosophy of Christian thought, an MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a DMin from Luther Rice Seminary. He has authored, co-authored and/or edited 92 books, including the 2-million-selling “Facts On” series of apologetic books.
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I Give Up! Why You Can’t Live the Christian Life - John Ankerberg
I Give Up! Why You Can’t Live the Christian Life
Study Guide
By John Ankerberg, Wayne Barber
Published by ATRI Publishing
Copyright 2017
ISBN 9781941135310
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Contents
Title page
Introduction
Session 1: Understanding Salvation
Session 2: The Impossible Christian Life
Session 3: Addicted to Sin
Leader Resources
Appendix A: How to Begin a Relationship with God
Appendix B: Praying for Those Who Do Not Believe
Appendix C: The Characteristics of Saintly Saints
About the Authors
About the Ankerberg Theological Research Institute
Introduction
Welcome to the I Give Up! Why You Can’t Live the Christian Life study guide. Do you ever feel like it’s impossible to live the Christian life? That’s because it is! That’s why Christ has come to live His life in us. In this series, pastor, international speaker, author, and President of Living Grace Ministries, Dr. Wayne Barber, will be my guest for a life-changing process of understanding what God really expects from those who follow Him.
Dr. Barber says, When I was lost, the flesh just dominated me. The law condemned me because I was under God’s holy standard of justice. But now Christ has met that standard on my behalf, I have been put under grace. Yet my flesh is still there. So Christ lives in me to overcome it— I just have to learn to cooperate!
Romans 6:13 tells us, rather than always chasing after sin, I have the power to make the choice of presenting myself as an instrument of holiness to the Lord. But I must put my focus on yielding to Christ, not on not yielding to sin. If we do, Christ will create a hunger for Him that could never be ignited by our own willpower.
These are three sessions based on God’s Word that will help you experience Christ’s power in your daily walk. We look forward to how this study will help you both better understand your own Christian faith and how it will help you in sharing your faith with others. Through it, we hope you will be better able to contend for the faith (Jude 3) as well as to show Christ’s love to those in need.
This study guide was created to use with our videos available as M4Vs or DVDs at: https://www.jashow.org/resources/i-give-up-why-you-can-t-live-the-christian-life.html. We have also included the links to our online transcripts for each of the programs in this study guide.
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