PDF Title: Pursuing a Holy Lifestyle
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: This Book
- 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: Maintaining the Life of Faith
Summary#
Pursuing a Holy Lifestyle is Book 3 in the Growing a Godly Life devotional series by Ron Christian. The booklet maintains that God’s saving work addresses both outward sinful actions and the inward problem of self-centeredness, pride, and rebellion. Ron Christian presents holiness as the work of the Holy Spirit, beginning with conversion and continuing through full surrender, inward cleansing, and daily growth in Christlike character. The work contends that sanctification is not merely separation from sin, but a positive life of love, obedience, humility, prayer, moral integrity, and dependence on the Spirit’s power. Through devotional reflections, Scripture passages, prayers, affirmations, and discussion questions, the booklet calls believers to let Christ rule the heart, surrender the “self,” control the tongue, resist hypocrisy and compromise, and pursue purity in thought, attitude, speech, and conduct. Its central message is that a holy lifestyle is not achieved by human effort alone, but by continual surrender to Christ and the transforming presence of the Holy Spirit.