A Heavenly Echo: The Twelve Steps in Christian Reflection

This book boldly asserts that New Testament prophetic visions portray a dynamic heaven-borne program of collective human revitalization in the new future. It is just the opposite of the doom and gloom predictions of many modern prognosticators. The author attempts to combine the authentic openness and self-revealing vulnerability of the AA community with the stupendous gospel claims of God's personal and global gift of eternal life with him. This combination of powerful, practical deliverance from addition, and the promise of God's unconditional grace-love, echoes in both of these contemporary historic phenomena--the ancient character of the Gospel's successful joining of God with us in our suffering world. From the first step to the last, the AA program and the Christian Gospel have produced bona fide evidence that anyone who seeks God and his right character will find it, and with it a new mind, a new God, and a new lasting life hope, that is, an eternal "spiritual awakening."

Author: Dan L. Ballinger
Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
Published: 05/18/2016
Pages: 82
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.25d
ISBN: 9781498284523

About the Author
Dan Ballinger is a retired Christian Church (Independent) pastor and currently volunteers as a counselor to missionaries at Frontier Ventures (formerly the U.S. Center for World Mission, Dr. Ralph Winter, founder). He has been an occasional speaker at Frontier Venture staff meetings over the last decade. Dan has a BA from Hope International University, a MA from Eastern New Mexico University, and is a Fellow/retired with The American Association of Pastoral Counselors. Dan and his wife of fifty-nine years, Norma, reside in Seal Beach, California, where he serves as an Associate Pastor for the Assembly of God.