PDF Title: Overcoming Obstacles to Christian Growth
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: This Book
- 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: Maintaining the Life of Faith
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.