His Most Excellent Way: A Biblical Approach to Living a Life of Christ-Like Loving

By Gary Strong

His Most Excellent Way examines the topic of agape love, the central doctrine of the Gospel, as well as what it means to participate in the divine, sacrificial love of God. Written by longtime pastor Gary Strong, this spiritual guidebook explores being born again. Find out how God helps the faithful, and discover the doubts, fears, and perplexities believers face in various life situations and how they find comfort in the Bible.

By focusing on biblical teachings and the word of God, youll discover how to attain perfect love; how to fulfill Gods greatest desires; and how to become born again and begin a personal relationship with God.

Youll also learn how loving both your neighbors and enemies can improve your life, as well as how God works through different traits, such as dominant, influencing, stable, and compliant personalities. By broadening your own personality, its possible to make your life more meaningful.

The Scriptures convey that Gods love continues to be of central importance to humanity. His Most Excellent Way is about nurturing a healthy relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, and with our brothers and sisters in Christ.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Nov 9, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462056521

Gary Strong

Gary Strong has been in the Christian ministry for more than fifty years, serving as a pastor, preacher, hospital chaplain, evangelist, and prison chaplain. He has also served the nation of Zimbabwe and regularly appeared on Zimbabwe television for many years. He lives in California with his wife, Beryl, and they are both members of New Life Christian Center in Novato.

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Contents

Preface

Endorsement

About the Author

Introduction

Chapter One

God’s Love, Our New Birth, and a New Life

Chapter Two

Divine Love and Human Personality

Chapter Three

Perfect Love and Personality Profiles

Chapter Four

Perfect Love: How to Attain It

Chapter Five

The Power of Perfect Love

Chapter Six

The Evidence of Christ-like Love

Chapter Seven

The Miracle We Need

Preface

The Reverend Gary Strong has been in the ministry for over half a century, which is longer than the years that I have lived. When you have cared for people involved in the church life and reached out to the lost that long, you have something to say. Also, when you realize that your days on earth are numbered, you begin to concentrate your energies on what is most important. This, Gary has done. He definitely has something to say, and he speaks with Biblical authority on the most essential subject of all—Christ-like loving.

Having been a close friend of Gary’s for many years, I have listened to him talk about and watched him live a life of Christ-like loving. What he writes is birthed out of many experiences, a fair share of pain, and much study and reflection. I believe His Most Excellent Way will help you focus on what is most important. It will instruct and encourage you to live a life of Christ-like loving. It is God’s desire for all of us. When all is said and done, life is a virtual workshop in which God would teach us to love with His kind of love.

May God minister His grace to you, that you become a disciple of ‘His most excellent way’.

Dr. Mark Roser author of The Cleansing of the Heavens and God’s Sovereignty

Endorsement

This book is more than a scholarly work on the subject of agape; it is a life message lived out by its author on a daily basis. The Apostle Paul once said, ‘For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me’ (Romans 15:18). Pastor Strong writes from the perspective of what God has done in him and through him over a lifetime of serving the Lord.

In the pages of this book we have a message from the Father, through a spiritual father, and so it is more than mere words. These are life-transforming words from the Lord! After all is said and done, the ‘greatest of these is love’. This love, by definition, is a love both experienced and expressed, and it is this love that is the true mark of Jesus’ followers today.

Pastor Caleb Klinge

New Life Christian Center

Novato, California

About the Author

Gary Strong has been in the Christian ministry for over fifty years. He has served both the church and the nation of Zimbabwe. His concern has always been for the church to reveal the love and grace of God embedded in the truth of God’s Word. He has been a leader of the national programmes New Life for All, World Vision, Africa Enterprise, and A Nation at Prayer. He has served as a pastor, preacher, hospital chaplain, evangelist, and prison chaplain with special responsibility to condemned cells. For many years he appeared regularly on television and was a radio presenter and participant in talk shows. He was also the founding coordinator of Lay Witness Missions and Evangelism Explosion in Zimbabwe.

Gary and his wife, Beryl, have four adult children. They are now a senior pastoral couple in California and are members of New Life Christian Centre, Novato, under the leadership of Pastor Caleb Klinge.

Gary has also written and published three books: You Are Significant and Ceasefire. His third book, The Keys to Effective Prayer, was the outcome of the prayer movement during the long civil war in Zimbabwe. Books in the pipeline include More of His Most Excellent Way and Singing for the Glory of God. These studies are written for Christian people who need to have doctrinal and Biblical truth set out in an easy-to-read style.

Introduction

My first year as a Christian was under the ministry of Dr W.E. Sangster of the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, London. I was impressed by his emphasis of Christ-likeness as the most important issue for Christian living. Within that year I fell in love with Beryl Cahill, a Sunday school teacher under Dr Sangster. We called to see and tell him of our plan to marry and that I would enter the Methodist ministry. We were captivated by the love that flowed out towards us from him. He gave us his undivided attention, enveloping us with fatherly care. After discussing with him our future plans, he said, ‘I believe you are well suited.’

Shortly after our engagement I returned to Zimbabwe; a year later Beryl joined me, and we were married within the year. On two occasions we received letters from Dr Sangster that exuded the same love we had received when we met him face to face. I read all of his books. The Path to Perfection and The Pure in Heart, in particular, dealt with the subject of Christ-like love. After fifty-four years in the ministry, my