The Holy Spirit. Flesh-starving accountability groups. Both have helped successfully free believers from their addictions. But might one approach have advantages over the other?
PREFERRED PARTNER
Assuming that both are capable of effectively engineering my escape from addictive sins of the flesh, which would I prefer to partner with? Why?
a) Holy Spirit
b) Flesh-Starving Accountability Partner/Group
I choose the Holy Spirit. Why? No Shame Factor. When the Holy Spirit leads, I can escape addictive sins of the flesh without anyone ever even knowing that I had an addiction.
EASIER-TO-SUCCESSFULLY-NAVIGATE ESCAPE ROUTE
Again, assuming that both are capable of effectively engineering my escape from addictive sins of the flesh, which will provide me with the easier-to-successfully-navigate escape route? Why?
a) Holy Spirit
b) Flesh-Starving Accountability Partner/Group
Again, I’m going with the Holy Spirit. Why? Those insisting that accountability is the only way of escape freely admit that accountability-based escape (= partner/group-aided starving of the flesh) may be the hardest thing that an addict will ever do in his life (see www.wileygrafbooks.com/news/the-hardest-thing-v9). On the other hand, escape in the Way of Escape Battle Plan is accomplished by repeatedly popping a DVD into a DVD player and drowning oneself in the Holy Spirit. Easy-Peasy! Why the dramatic drop in difficulty? Because it is always easier to “Feed the Spirit” than to “Starve the Flesh.” Much, much easier.
It is always easier to “Feed the Spirit” than to “Starve the Flesh.” Much, much easier.
A GAME-CHANGING BOOK HAS ARRIVED
In A Way of Escape, readers learn how to build a zero-shame, easier-to-successfully-navigate, escape-without-accountability, wholly Spirit-Powered Battle Plan for purity. Readers learn how to escape sins of the flesh—not by starving the flesh, but—by stepping up the degree to which they “walk in the Spirit” (Galatians 5:16). They learn how to build a library of Spirit-anointed, flesh-diffusing apps. Apps that are uniquely fitted to them, and their unique Spirit-filling triggers (Ephesians 5:18b-19).
I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh (Galatians 5:16).
The still-struggling now have another option. The still-struggling now have fresh hope for discovering that long-sought-after way of escape from temptation and resulting sin (I Corinthians 10:13). A way that—because it is wholly Spirit-powered—does not require enlisting the aid of an accountability partner or group. Truly, a game-changer!
THANK YOU, HOLY SPIRIT!
