The Expectation Gap (Steve Cuss)
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.
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Intro: Gaps and Traps (The Expectation Gap)
We learn to mind three gaps—God’s particular love, God’s visceral presence, and my spiritual progress—so that what we believe will be more congruient with our experience.
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S1: Our False Reality (The Expectation Gap)
Make an intentional shift in your approach to two core relationships. Then, learn the four most common dynamics that infect every relationship and notice how they hinder your daily experience of God.
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S2: Relaxing into God's Presence (The Expectation Gap)
The best and only gift you have to offer to God and your people is a well self.
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S3: Gap 1: God's Particular Love (The Expectation Gap)
"I believe God loves me, but I don't feel it."
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S4: Containing the Inner Critic (The Expectation Gap)
Gain insight into your own inner critic and how it differs from and conflicts with the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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S5: Gap 2: God's Visceral Presence (The Expectation Gap)
"I believe God is with me, but I don't see Him."
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S6: Addressing Chronic Anxiety (The Expectation Gap)
Evaluate the Big 5 false needs of every human: Control, perfection, knowing the answer, being there for people, approval.
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S7: Gap 3: My Spiritual Progress (The Expectation Gap)
"I thought I'd be further along by now." Get off the treadmill of trying to be like Christ and instead focus your effort on dying to self.
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S8: Replacing Unhealthy Assumptions (The Expectation Gap)
Start a Life-Giving List and see how it increases the scope of God's gifts to us and our awareness of them.
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S9: Home and Shalom (The Expectation Gap)
Home is anywhere we are fully welcomed and accepted, free to love and be loved.
