PDF Title: Overcoming Obstacles to Christian Growth
Author: Ron Christian
Summary#
Overcoming Obstacles to Christian Growth is a devotional booklet in the Growing a Godly Life series that focuses on attitudes, habits, and emotional patterns that hinder spiritual maturity. Ron Christian maintains that while Christ receives and transforms sinners by grace, believers must still confront lingering obstacles such as prejudice, resentment, bitterness, unforgiveness, discouragement, worry, misplaced confidence, spiritual inadequacy, and dependence on feelings rather than faith. The booklet proposes that Christian growth requires both honest self-examination and active dependence on God’s grace, Word, Spirit, and forgiveness. Through biblical reflections, personal illustrations, prayers, affirmations, and discussion questions, Ron Christian calls readers to replace harmful attitudes with humility, love, reconciliation, courage, contentment, and steady faith. Its central message is that obstacles to Christian growth are not overcome by self-effort alone, but through repentance, renewed thinking, obedience, forgiveness, and daily trust in Christ’s transforming power.