Authenic Discipleship in Christ through Reflective ChristianitySeries Books.

Christianity: Christian Treatment of the Wounded and Fallen

This book is not for the faint of heart. It is not a finger pointed at “the world out there.” It is a mirror held up to the church. Its theme is pride — the first sin, the root of every fall, and the poison that seeps into nearly every avowed follower of Christ.

From the beginning, pride has been the wound. In Eden, it whispered, “You can be like God.” In every age since, it has driven men and women to rise up instead of kneel down, to build towers instead of altars, to seek their own glory instead of God’s.

But the cure is humility. The way up is down. “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up” (James 4:10).

This book will expose denominational arrogance, the smugness of unforgiveness, the subtle pride of thinking I am better than them. It will show how pride divides believers, rejects the poor, silences the different, and leaves the wounded outside the door. It will indict nearly all of us.

Yet this book is not only for the proud. It is also for the fallen, the broken, the overlooked. For those who sit in the back row and believe they are “less than.” For the single parent who feels like an orphan. For the homeless who wonders if they are still seen. For the quiet believer who fears they do not measure up.

You need to know: in God’s eyes, you are not less. The same pride that makes one puff up makes another shrink down. But the gospel destroys both illusions. All of us are beggars in need of bread. All of us are children who cannot survive without a Father.

At the center is Jesus’ hard saying: “Whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for Me will find it” (Matthew 16:25). Too often taught only as martyrdom, it is also the daily call to humility. To lose the illusion of control. To admit we own nothing, deserve nothing, and can do nothing apart from Him.

The wounded and the proud alike must hear this word: kneel. Kneel to confess. Kneel to surrender. Kneel to rise.

For only in losing do we gain. Only in humility do we find healing. Only in Christ does the fallen rise again.