PDF Title: The Race of Life!
Author: Ron G. Christian
Summary#
The Race of Life! is a Christian devotional work by Ron Christian that presents the believer’s life as a spiritual race requiring endurance, discipline, faith, repentance, and steady focus on Jesus Christ. Drawing heavily from Hebrews and other New Testament passages, the book maintains that Christians are called to pursue Christlike character, lay aside sin and unnecessary distractions, and continue faithfully toward the finish line of heaven. Christian emphasizes that salvation begins with God’s grace but must be lived out through ongoing trust, obedience, humility, accountability, and compassion for both unbelievers and backsliders. The work also warns against spiritual drifting, hardened affections, unbelief, self-righteousness, and divided loyalties, while encouraging believers to rely on God’s keeping power and the encouragement of the fellowship of saints. Throughout the book, Christian connects the race of life with themes of evangelism, repentance, guilt, moral responsibility, heavenly hope, and the final joy of crossing the finish line with Christ. Its central message is that successful Christian living requires persevering faith, disciplined love, and a continual fixing of one’s eyes on Jesus.