Looking Back, Moving on: Applying Biblical Principles of Freedom to Your Life

by Boyd Luter and A. Boyd Luter

Can a growing believer need recovery? Boyd Luther knew his relationship with his father had been less than ideal. But as a Christian leader, former pastor, and seminary professor, he assumed the best... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891097201
• ISBN13: 9780891097204
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: NavPress Publishing Group
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Looking Back, Moving On

Can a growing believer need recovery? Boyd Luter knew his relationship with his father had been less than ideal. But as a Christian leader, former pastor, and seminary professor, he assumed the best way to lead a productive Christian life was to put the past behind him. Then a series of pressing circumstances forced him to look at his past. Suddenly he began to realize just how much his troubled relationship with his father had been afecting his health, family life, and ministry over the years. Although he'd always wrestled with the concept of recovery, he now found himself wondering if recovery was in fact a legitimate, biblically sanctioned process. So, armed on the one hand with some long-held personal reservations, yet admitting a definite need on the other, this well-studied Bible scholar set out to determine whether recovery was indeed scriptually sound. What he discovered surprised even himself. Defining recovery as "the comeback process from an unhealthy event, relationship, or behavioral pattern that continues to negatively impact a person's life," Looking Back, Moving On clearly illustrates: - Why forgetting what lies behind doesn't mean ignoring bad memories, or pretending those events never happened. _ How recovery plays an important part of the sanctification process - The need for spiritually mature believers to consider issues of personal recovery - How to biblically evaluate the various approaches to recovery - The value of a "time-block" approach to counseling as opposed to months of weekly, hour-long sessions --- from book's back cover