Returning to Your First Love: Putting God Back in First Place
Overview
Dr. Evans challenges you to probe your heart and consider your commitment to God. Hard-hitting answers, biblical evidence, and down-to-earth illustrations cut to the heart of the topic. This book will bring you to your knees and re-ignite the flame in your heart for your Lord and Savior.
Top Highlights
“But if you are watching so much television you can’t open your Bible or get on your knees and pray; if you are having so much fun with your friends that you can’t talk about spiritual things; if you can talk and joke about everything but never bring up Christ; if the Bible and the things of Christ would embarrass you in your social circle, something is wrong with your fun.” (Page 48)
“To neglect simply means that there is a lack of interest. It’s not that you are doing everything wrong. It’s that you are doing little right. We are talking about passive disobedience here. It’s not that you are messing up in the sense of going out and planning to do wrong; it’s rather that you are not doing the things necessary to get you moving forward down the road.” (Page 52)
“What does it mean to be a carnal Christian? Simply stated, carnality is that spiritual state where a born-again Christian knowingly and persistently lives to please and serve self rather than Christ.” (Page 18)
“An unbelieving heart is an evil heart because an unbelieving heart doubts God. When we doubt God, that opens the door for evil. Instead of turning to God, we begin to run from Him.” (Page 55)
“But Jesus knew that unless Peter’s service was motivated by intense love for Him, it would lead to duty without devotion, practice without passion.” (Pages 8–9)
- Title: Returning to Your First Love: Putting God Back in First Place
- Author: Tony Evans
- Series: Understanding God
- Publisher: Moody
- Print Publication Date: 1995
- Logos Release Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: God › Worship and love; Spiritual life › Christianity; Christian life
- Resource ID: LLS:RTRNFRSTLV
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T07:30:18Z
Tony Evans is Senior Pastor of Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, president of The Urban Alternative, and a widely-syndicated radio broadcaster. He graduated from Dallas Theology Seminary, where he was the first African-American to receive a doctorate in theology.
Dr. Evans' Urban Alternative ministry seeks to bring about spiritual renewal in urban America, and his radio broadcast, “The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans" airs in more than 500 outlets in the United States and over 40 countries.