The Expectation Gap: The Tiny, Vast Space Between Our Beliefs and Experience of God (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780310156376)

Learn how to quiet your inner critic, confront chronic anxiety, and relax into God's perfect presence.

Do you truly experience the promises Jesus gave to those who follow him--the benefits of peace, freedom, and love? The fact is that many of us struggle with a gap between what we believe about God and how we encounter him in our everyday lives. We don't want our faith to be merely conceptual--we want to experience it viscerally--and yet we often come up against one or more of these major gaps:

• I believe God loves me, but I don't feel it.
• I believe God is with me, but I don't see him.
• I thought I'd be further along in my spiritual progress by now.

In The Expectation Gap, Steve Cuss--pastor and founder of the leadership organization Capable Life--offers tangible tools for engaging with God in a deeper, more soul-satisfying way. You'll unveil harmful expectations and patterns that keep you spiritually stuck so that you can replace them with habits and practices that will lead to a more vibrant faith life.

"This is the most helpful book I've read in my thirty-five years of ministry when it comes to recognizing, naming, and bridging the gap between what we believe about God and what we experience from God." --Christine Caine, founder of A21 and Propel Women