Stickman Theology - Softcover

Ewing, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1633022927 ISBN 13: 9781633022928

Publisher: Total Publishing and Media, 2024

Synopsis

Stickman Theology is a unique approach to embracing our dependency on Christ. The analogies, tools, and examples given in these pages bring every believer's hidden struggles into the light. Terry offers us ways of sharing our deepest hurts and needs in a grace-based context of discipleship. You will learn concepts and tools that enable you to embrace your role as a struggling, striving, growing believer and to pull down the strongholds in your life.

This study is designed for those struggling with their strongholds. It is a study based on the participants' desire to have freedom in worship, balance in their theology, honesty about their weaknesses, and confidence in the sufficiency of Christ to redeem and sanctify (a continual process of spiritual,

emotional, and relational growth) all people, including themselves. To accomplish that goal, we will present tools and concepts designed to equip the believer in understanding and practicing a lifetime of struggling, striving, and growing. We will not present "easy answers" or "10-step techniques." Instead, we will lay a firm foundation upon which we can "hold firm to the hope of [our] redemption" and begin experiencing "the power to be called the children of God.

About this title

About the Author

Terry was a student-pastor in the United Methodist before turning twenty years old. After serving for fourteen years and gaining a bachelors degree in Psychology and a master's in Divinity, Ewing surrendered his ordination in response to institutional betrayals and religious abuses practiced in the denomination. Many of his personal experiences as a UMC pastor are incorporated into the book through the Kyle Fedder character, a witness for the prosecution. Terry founded Plumbline Ministries in 1995 and the counseling center has grown steadily. Supported by his wife of forty-four years, the staff of Plumbline Ministries, and dozens of counselees with similar experiences of religious traumas, Terry wrote this novel in hopes of informing UMC members who have been denied knowledge of the institutional abuses, and to encourage every believer to develop a compassionate response to the victims of religious traumas and abuses.

Edition details

• Publisher: Total Publishing and Media
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1633022927
• ISBN 13: 9781633022928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254