Life According to Perfect by Ralph Harris

Life According to Perfect by Ralph Harris

Come join a story too great to imagine, but a story that's surprisingly yours.
Terrific stories have been written about following and meeting with Jesus. They happen on a high place or in a magical land. But what if the meeting didn't happen in a distant or magical place, somewhere you had to go? What if it occurred inside of you-every day, at any moment-and you were God's happiest, most magical place to be?
Meet Elliot Samuelson. He's 12 and lives in the little town of Sarx. He has already learned to cope. He copes with his dad's expectations. He copes with his mom's need for a sparkling family image. He copes with his teacher's rules. He copes with the bully's threats. He's a coper.
In fact, everyone in Sarx has from a young age learned how to cope-and that's the problem. They all know how to cope. But no one knows how to truly live, until Elliot meets a stranger on the edge of town, who shows him a better way. A Perfect way. And Elliot's life, and the town's, are never the same.
Yours won't be, either.
Best-selling author and speaker Ralph Harris knows what it is like to hurt and what it means to trust Jesus. Here, Ralph creatively shares with us the importance of the indwelling Christ, illustrating in clear ways how we can know Jesus as our everything. Whether your struggle is fear or faithfulness, 'Life According to Perfect' will encourage you in ways that only few books do. Get this book to find real answers and discover real healing. Dr. Andrew Farley, best-selling author of The Naked Gospel, and host of Andrew Farley LIVE on Sirius XM

Born on September 1, 1912, to Charles and Georgia Harris in Detroit, Michigan, Ralph was the youngest of six children. His young life saw very little in material wealth, but an abundance of love and guidance. We didn't know we were poor, he said in his memoirs.Harris graduated magna cum laude from Cooley High School in Detroit in 1931 and went on to earn a diploma from Central Bible Institute (now College) in Springfield, Missouri, in 1937. He would add a bachelor's degree in 1961 and a master's degree in 1969, also from CBC.Harris pastored from 1936 to 1943, first Nichols (Missouri) Community Church, then Faith Tabernacle in Clio, Michigan. In 1943, he was selected as the first National Youth Leader for the Assemblies of God. During his tenure leading the A/G youth from the national headquarters in Springfield, Missouri (1943-1948), Harris founded the Speed the Light program in 1944a -a missions program that focused on providing transportation, from bicycles to 4-wheel drive vehicles, to assist missionaries in the field. This program has grown exponentially over the decades. Last year, Speed the Light giving reached nearly $12 million.From 1948 through 1954, Harris pastored Fremont Tabernacle in Seattle, Washington. There he put his church on the map when in 1949 he and his church recruited 1,189 people to hand-write a chapter each of the Bible. Writers ranged from 8 to 85 years old and came from nearly 30 denominations. The local newspaper provided weekly updates concerning the progress and even President Truman sent a congratulatory note upon the Bible's completion. From that time on, people always referred to [us as] 'the church with the handwritten Bible, Harris said during an interview.In 1954, Harris was invited back to Springfield, Missouri, to become the editor in chief of A/G Church School Literature Department, which developed curriculum for Sunday School. He held that position until his retirement from headquarters in

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ISBN 13	9780692104057
ISBN 10	0692104054
Title	Life According to Perfect
Author	Ralph Harris
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ralph Harris
Year published	2018-04-16
Number of pages	134
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