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George Barna, in his newest book, Maximum Faith<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, maps the ten stops along the path toward wholeness:<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a>1. Ignorance of the concept or existence of sin. 1%
\n2. Aware of and indifferent to sin. 16%
\n3. Concerned about the implications of personal sin. 39%
\n4. Confess sins and ask Jesus Christ to be their Savior. 9%
\n5. Commitment to faith activities. 24%
\n6. Experience a prolonged period of spiritual discontent. 6%
\n7. Experiencing personal brokenness. 3%
\n8. Choosing to surrender and submit fully to God: radical dependence. 1%
\n9. Enjoying a profound intimacy with and love for God. 0.5%
\n10. Experiencing a profound compassion and love for humanity. 0.5%<\/p>\n

What do you think of this schematic display of spiritual progress? Anything to add? subtract?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barna thinks most are in a \u201cmindless mutiny\u201d and in a \u201chopeless meandering.\u201d And he thinks many, many stop on the path. He sees five paths:<\/p>\n

1. Moving sequentially: some go from 1 to 10. Others try other methods.
\n2. Settling for religiosity: some get to stop #6 and choose to settle for #5.
\n3. Exploiting cheap grace: they get to #6 and revert back to #2.
\n4. Becoming angry with God: they go through #6 but when they get to #7 they become angry with a God who would subject them to such a process of testing, and they often return as well to #2.
\n5. Traveling the biblical path: they leap from #3 to #7 and move onwards.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"