The Lean
Christian Belief: What It Is, How It Works, and What It Does to Us
$9.95 — includes the complete ebook (PDF) FREE as a bonus.
You can lean toward God with your shoulders and still have both feet on the floor.
That is what a lot of what we call Christian belief actually looks like. We say we believe. We sing like believers. We talk like believers. But the weight has not moved. One foot is still on the old floor: control, money, reputation, the plan, the right to stay angry, the right to stay in charge.
English has crowded the word until “belief” sounds like an opinion. Churches have treated it like voltage. People have been told to believe harder, feel warmer, and measure faith by the last result. God is not fooled by the lean of the shoulders. He looks at the feet.
The Lean takes the word back.
Christian belief is the transfer of your weight onto Jesus Christ; knowledge of who He is, assent that it is true, and trust that actually leaves the old floor. It is not a pose. It is not a leap into the dark. It is not a technique for extracting outcomes. It is a lean onto a Person.
In this book, pastor and biblical counselor Rev. Juan M. Pérez shows:
- What belief is — the crowded English word, the Bible’s own language, and the four jobs of faith: hand, bond, lens, and signal
- How it works — the rival still planted under the other foot, how a lean is given rather than clenched, and how prayer looks when God is a Person, not a machine
- What it does to us — the remade life, suffering and the Son’s own lean, how to tell costume from timber, and how a people lean together
This is not a book about having more faith if “more” means louder, warmer, or less interrupted by thought. It is about what faith is, how it operates in a human being, and what it does to someone if it is allowed to remain.
You do not make the lean. You tell the truth about where your weight already is. You get in range of the One who will hold it. You stay long enough for a habit to be given, not only an act.
Lift both feet. Not because you have become fearless, but because He is worthy of your full weight, and because you will never learn that He holds you until you stop holding yourself.
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