{"product_id":"learning-adventism-before-learning-christ-michael-a-reahl-9798994014882","title":"Learning Adventism Before Learning Christ: Performance, Hiddenness, and the Search for Truthful Christianity","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome people learn how to survive before they learn how to rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey learn how to perform before they learn how to surrender.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey learn camouflage before confession.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaised within Seventh-day Adventist culture while navigating instability, shame, exhaustion, and survival, Michael Reahl explores the hidden world many Christians quietly inhabit: a world where outward religious performance often conceals inward fear, loneliness, and spiritual exhaustion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough deeply personal reflections shaped by military service, emergency medicine, law enforcement, rural Alaska, and theological formation, this book confronts the tension between camouflage Christianity and truthful surrender.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book attacking faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a plea for honesty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA plea for a Christianity where people no longer need to pretend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere grace reaches beyond appearances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere exhausted believers stop hiding long enough to encounter Christ relationally instead of merely religiously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaw, reflective, and deeply human, Learning Adventism Before Learning Christ invites readers beyond performance and into something many have quietly longed for all along: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etruthful rest in Christ.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael A. Reahl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798994014882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Advent Awareness Publishing \u0026amp; Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d","brand":"Michael A. Reahl","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852948746495,"sku":"9798994014882","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/learning-adventism-before-learning-christ-michael-a-reahl-9798994014882","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}