NO QUICK FIX

Where Higher Life Theology Came From,

What It Is, and Why It’s Harmful

Andrew David Naselli

No Quick Fix: Where Higher Life Theology Came From, What It Is, and Why It’s Harmful

Copyright 2017 Andrew David Naselli

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Contents

List of Figures

Introduction

PART 1: Where Higher Life Theology Came From and What It Is

Chapter 1

What Is the Story of Higher Life Theology?

Chapter 2

What Is Higher Life Theology?

PART 2: Why Higher Life Theology Is Harmful

Chapter 3

The Fundamental Reason Higher Life Theology Is Harmful

Chapter 4

Nine More Reasons Higher Life Theology Is Harmful

Conclusion

Afterword by John MacArthur

Appendix: A More Excellent Way: Recommended Resources on the Christian Life

Acknowledgments

Subject and Name Index

Index of Scripture

List of Figures

Fig. 1.1. Where Did Higher Life Theology Come From?

Fig. 1.2. The Wesleyan View of Sanctification

Fig. 1.3. The Pentecostal View of Sanctification

Fig. 1.4. Chafer’s Two Categories of Christians: Carnal and Spiritual

Fig. 1.5. The Chaferian View of Sanctification

Fig. 1.6. Ryrie’s Contrast between Spirit-Baptism and Spirit-Filling

Fig. 2.1. “A Spiritual Clinic”: The Early Keswick Convention’s Progressive Teaching

Fig. 2.2. Illustrations of Counteracting Sin

Fig. 2.3. Two Categories of Christians

Fig. 2.4. The Higher Life (or Keswick) View of Sanctification

Fig. 2.5. Illustrations of Sanctification as a Crisis Followed by a Process

Fig. 2.6. Illustrations of Appropriating the Gift of Sanctification

Fig. 2.7. Illustrations of Spirit-Filling

Fig. 3.1. Higher Life Theology vs. the New Testament

Fig. 3.2. Three Tenses of Sanctification

Fig. 3.3. Contrasts between Justification and Progressive Sanctification

Fig. 3.4. Phrase Diagram of Romans 6:1–23

Fig. 3.5. Phrase Diagram of 1 Corinthians 2:6–3:4

Fig. 3.6. Translations of Key Words in 1 Corinthians 2:14–15; 3:1, 3

Fig. 3.7. Two Categories in Which All Humans Fit

Fig. 3.8. The Reformed View of Progressive Sanctification

Fig. 3.9. Illustrations of Content vs. Means

Fig. 3.10. The Components of Jesus’ Metaphor in John 15

Fig. 3.11. Explaining John 15:4 with 15:7, 9–10

Fig. 4.1. Illustrations of How Christians Must Become What They Are

Fig. 4.2. Degrees of Assurance

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About No Quick Fix: Where Higher Life Theology Came from, What It Is, and Why It’s Harmful

In No Quick Fix, a shorter and more accessible version of his book Let Go and Let God?, Andy Naselli critiques higher life theology from a biblical perspective. He shows that it leads not to freedom, but to frustration, because it promises something it has no power to deliver.

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