This book is a journey toward the simplest of teachings from the first followers of Jesus. These great people had distilled the fundamentals of a strong and simple faith in God, and rehearsed them as elementary. With so many voices, trends, and directions reflected in modern Christianity, Ben Pasley returns to the most elementary teachings of the Christian faith to help us all clear our minds toward the simplicity of the Kingdom of God. Some might consider these simple teachings from Hebrews 6 baby steps, while others may be astounded at the depth of their implications for Christianity today. Jesus asks us to follow him. Many say that a journey begins with the first step, but it actually begins with a lean. We must shift our weight toward the direction we intend to go before we can even take the first step. This book encourages us to lean toward the simple steps of following Jesus outlined in Hebrews 6:1-3. These elementary steps are the key to a strong and simple journey with God. Ben Pasley is known for the creation of the popular Enter The Worship Circle series of tribal-folk recordings, but he also enjoys writing and encouraging people as love-pioneers. His leadership in the Kingdom IQ training school is helping believers discover a whole new way of life. He resides at 8,500 feet above sea level in Colorado with his wife, two children, woodworking shop, and fly fishing gear.
Ben Pasley was born in Alabama in 1966. He learned to fly fish on still water, catch crawdad on a string, and navigate kudzu without getting the itchies. Later on he earned a BA Degree from Samford University in 1989 a half a semester late because Hebrew was written backwards and he made his second semester Philosophy professor mad. Nothing of any real consequence happened in his life until he met Robin Weisinger and spent all his money and skills to change her name to Robin Pasley in 1994. They live together still in Woodland Park, CO with their two boys, Zane and Xander.
Here is a bullet point list of biographical and newsworthy notes:
- In 1993 Ben formed the beginnings of the Blue Renaissance Creative Group, a non-profit organization that fused faith and art to create many tours, albums, literary works, and creative presentations from that day until now.
- From 1994 until 2000 Ben And Robin performed over 125 outreach concerts a year as the band, 100 Portraitswhich was Ben and Robin's first musical identity...and focused on state university campus touring in the 1990's.
- Enter The Worship Circle a worship music series, is one of their most well known musical products, and was first released in 1999 because Ben and Robin wanted to create a worship album for university student culture.
- Enter The Worship Circle has now sold well over 100,000 units of the, now, 8 album collection. (Two new albums were released in 2007.) Follow them on YouTube!
- Ben Pasley's first book was published by Relevant Media in 2001 entitled Enter The Worship Circle and sold almost 8,000 copies before it was returned to Ben Pasley for independent publishing.
- Ben hosts his own site, featuring articles and events at benpasley.com! Subscribe to his email delivery streams for encouragements and teachings.
