The Expectation Gap
eBook - ePub

The Expectation Gap

The Tiny, Vast Space between Our Beliefs and Experience of God

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Expectation Gap

The Tiny, Vast Space between Our Beliefs and Experience of God

About this book

Learn how to quiet your inner critic, confront chronic anxiety, and relax into God's perfect presence.

Do you truly experience the promises Jesus gave to those who follow him—the benefits of peace, freedom, and love? The fact is that many of us struggle with a gap between what we believe about God and how we encounter him in our everyday lives. We don't want our faith to be merely conceptual—we want to experience it viscerally—and yet we often come up against one or more of these major gaps:  

  • I believe God loves me, but I don't feel it.
  • I believe God is with me, but I don't see him.
  • I thought I'd be further along in my spiritual progress by now.

 

In The Expectation Gap, Steve Cuss—pastor and founder of the leadership organization Capable Life—offers tangible tools for engaging with God in a deeper, more soul-satisfying way. You'll unveil harmful expectations and patterns that keep you spiritually stuck so that you can replace them with habits and practices that will lead to a more vibrant faith life.

"This is the most helpful book I've read in my thirty-five years of ministry when it comes to recognizing, naming, and bridging the gap between what we believe about God and what we experience from God." —Christine Caine, founder of A21 and Propel Women

Information

Publisher
Zondervan
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9780310156376
eBook ISBN
9780310156390

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Ebook Instructions
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction: Gaps and Traps
  8. 1. Our False Reality
  9. 2. Relaxing Into God’s Presence
  10. 3. Gap 1: God’s Particular Love
  11. 4. Containing the Inner Critic
  12. 5. Gap 2: God’s Visceral Presence
  13. 6. Addressing Chronic Anxiety
  14. 7. Gap 3: My Spiritual Progress
  15. 8. Replacing Unhealthy Assumptions
  16. 9. Home and Shalom
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Appendix 1: Additional Resources
  19. Appendix 2: Gauntlet Questions
  20. Appendix 3: The Life-Giving List

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