How to Follow Jesus: A Practical Guide to Growing Your Faith

Product Description
Millions of people want to follow Jesus, but don't know how. Upon becoming Christians, new believers often end up paralyzed. They become overwhelmed trying to master complicated doctrines, frustrated by a large list of rules for policing their lives, and bewildered by a new (and strange) vocabulary. Even worse, there are few books offering simple and clear advice to guide a Christian's first spiritual steps that are written in common, contemporary language. Until now.
In How to Follow Jesus, Craig Springer, executive director of Alpha USA, America's most effective evangelism movement, explodes numerous myths surrounding the Christian faith that create unnecessary obstacles to growth, including: illustrating that sin and temptation are not the greatest threat to a flourishing faith, forgiveness means going through rather than around our feelings, and how disappointment in the church may be the essential step in growing a foundation for life-changing community. Sharing personal stories from his own journey to a mature faith, Springer sets readers at ease and offers them practical, easy-to-implement advice for following Jesus. Destined to become a timeless classic, How to Follow Jesus is a must read for new and returning Christians.
About the Author
Craig Springer is the Executive Director of Alpha USA. Previously, he served as a church planter in Prague, as a lead pastor at a campus of Willow Creek Community Church outside Chicago, and as the executive and teaching pastor at Cherry Hills Community Church in Denver. Craig has a deep passion for the local church and a broad personal church background including Vineyard churches, Willow Creek, evangelical Presbyterian churches, and international church planting. He lives in Colorado with his wife, Sarah, and their two children, Isaiah and Isabelle.


Lee Strobel was the award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune and is the bestselling author of The Case for Faith, The Case for the Real Jesus, and The Case for a Creator, all of which have been made into documentaries by Lionsgate. With a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale, Lee wrote four Gold Medallion winners and the 2005 Book of the Year with Garry Poole. He and his wife live in Colorado. Visit Lee’s website at: www.leestrobel.com.