Please scroll down the page to see the full contents of “Becoming a Secure Christian” and click on whichever chapter heading you wish to go to.
Overview:
PART 1 : Objectives & Obstacles (Ch. 1 & 2)
PART 2 : Secure in Relationships (Ch. 3-8)
PART 3 : Secure in Ministry (Ch. 9-12)
PART 4 : When Things Go Wrong (Ch.13-17)
PART 5 : Concluding Thoughts (Ch.8)
Contents:
PART 1 : Objectives & Obstacles
Chapter 1 – A Need for Today
1.1 The Background to this book
1.2 Forces of Change
1.3 Occasional Fractures in the Church
1.4 And So ?
Chapter 2 – History & Ministry
2.1 Church, not so good
2.2 The Fundamental Heart of Church
2.3 Our Church History
2.4 Ministries
2.5 And so?
PART 2 : Secure in Relationships
Chapter 3 – Strange People
3.1 Church is all about relationships
3.2 But Church is made up of such strange people!
3.3 Different Behaviour
3.4 Different Appearances!
3.5 My Sense of Inadequacy
3.6 Help from the Past
3.7 Help from Scripture
3.8 And so?
Chapter 4 – Imperfect People
4.1 But Church is made up of such imperfect people!
4.2 Fundamental Truths about Change
4.3 Gradual Change, a Reminder
4.4 Change is so often slow
4.5 Breaking the Barriers of Isolation
4.6 And so?
Chapter 5 – Togetherness
5.1 New Testament Togetherness
5.2 The Potential of Togetherness
5.3 A Question of Immaturity
5.4 And So?
Chapter 6 – Secure to Confess
6.1 Scriptural Teaching on Confession
6.2 The Significance of Confession
6.3 The Context and Ingredients for Confession
6.4 When Confession takes place
6.5 Following Confession
6.6 And So?
Chapter 7 – Secure in Team
7.1 Team is ‘in’
7.2 Facets of Team
7.3 Accountability
7.4 Other Accountability Features
7.5 And So?
Chapter 8 – Relationship Strategies
8.1 Recap
8.2 The Corporate Approach
8.3 A Caring Environment Starts in Meetings
8.4 Individual Strategies
8.5 And So?
PART 3 : Secure in Ministry
Chapter 9 – Secure in Change – Mentoring
9.1 Change is Threatening
9.2 Mentoring
9.3 A Person’s Heart
9.4 And So?
Chapter 10 – Secure in Ministry – Preaching
10.1 Secure to Minister
10.2 Security through Preaching
10.3 Law and Grace
10.4 Driving or Lifting
10.5 Teaching Responsibility to Think, to Act and to Live
10.6 We will get it wrong
10.7 And So?
Chapter 11 – Secure in Ministry – Gifts
11.1 Stay with me
11.2 The Use of Prophecy in the Church
11.3 Checks and Balances for Prophecy
11.4 The Benefits of the Gift
11.5 Deliverance Ministry
11.6 Ministering Healing
11.7 And So?
Chapter 12 – A Light to the World
12.1 A Light to the Nations
12.2 A Crisis of Confidence?
12.3 Into the Community
12.4 Church without Walls
12.5 Meeting a Hunger
12.6 And So?
PART 4 : When Things Go Wrong
Chapter 13 – Secure in Correction – Theory
13.1 Why Consider Correction
13.2 Varieties of Approach
13.3 Issues of Right & Wrong
13.4 The Difficulty of Centralised Giving
13.5 An Example of Immorality
13.6 Lessons to be Learnt?
13.7 Styles of Correction
13.8 And So?
Chapter 14 – Secure in Correction – Practice
14.1 Preparation
14.2 Confrontation
14.3 Confront or Counsel
14.4 Reconciliation, Restitution & Restoration
14.5 Facing Failure – when it doesn’t work
14.6 Facing Fears about identity
14.7 And So?
Chapter 15 – Disagreeing Gracefully
15.1 The Apostolic Example
15.2 Reasons for a Crisis Disagreement
15.3 The Fact of Disagreement in Life
15.4 The Tragedy and Reality of Division
15.5 And So?
Chapter 16 – Secure after Conflict
16.1 The Nature of Conflict
16.2 Unresolved Conflicts
16.3 Inner Conflicts
16.4 If you are the OFFENDER
16.5 If you are the OFFENDED
16.6 Walking out Reconciliation
16.7 And So?
Chapter 17 – Thinking About Forgiveness
17.1 Facing Forgiveness
17.2 The Shifting Sands of Offence
17.3 The Basics of Biblical Forgiveness
17.4 The Key to Biblical Forgiveness
17.5 Helpful Factors
17.6 And So?
PART 5 : Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 18 – What sort of Church?
18.1 A Review
18.2 And Us Generally?
