PDF Title: Maintaining the Life of Faith
Author: Ron Christian
This book is part of a series.
- Book 1: Encountering the Living God
- Book 2: Practicing the Means of Grace
- Book 3: Pursuing a Holy Lifestyle
- Book 4: Handling Life's Temptations
- Book 5: Practicing the Presence of God
- Book 6: Overcoming Obstacles to Christian Growth
- Book 7: Refocusing on Life's Priorities
- Book 8: Appropriating the Power of Prayer and Faith
- Book 9: Managing Life's Various Stewardships
- Book 10: Rescuing the Lost Ones
- Book 11: Reaching Out in Holy Love
- Book 12: Surviving Life's Hard Trials
- Book 13: This Book
Summary#
Maintaining the Life of Faith is a Christian devotional work by Ron Christian that focuses on perseverance, spiritual alertness, and continued faithfulness after conversion. The book maintains that the Christian life is not a one-time profession of belief but an ongoing walk of trust, obedience, repentance, and dependence on God’s sustaining grace. Ron Christian warns against spiritual drifting, neglecting the means of grace, disobedience, distraction, and relying on past spiritual experiences instead of daily fellowship with Christ. He contends that believers must remain watchful, keep their first love, stay open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and continue pressing forward even through weakness, suffering, temptation, and uncertainty. The book also addresses the relationship between assurance, free will, perseverance, and the danger of careless living, while affirming that God’s power is available to those who keep trusting Him. Its central message is that faith must be maintained through abiding in Christ, obeying God’s Word, yielding to the Holy Spirit, and persevering with hope until the end.