What Kind of God Do I Serve? - Foreword by Dr. Michael Avery

This is the Foreword to the book: What Kind of God Do I Serve? by Ezra Byer

Trying to grow spiritually without understanding God’s plan for transforming your life is like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle without looking at the picture on the front of the box. What Kind of God Do I Serve? helps eliminate the guesswork by providing the reader with a biblical portrait of what spiritual transformation looks like, while at the same time, offering a simple process for learning and living that transformed life. This book is a welcomed resource for a church that is struggling to produce men and women who fit the biblical standard of spiritual maturity.

New believers do not develop into deep Christians on their own any more than a little boy playing soldier becomes a great general on his own. We know this from church history and from personal experience. More importantly, we know this because the Bible gives us examples of how God himself develops deep people. The Gospels provide a front row seat to watch how Jesus reshaped the spiritual character of his disciples in a way that would prepare them to live, suffer, and die for his Kingdom. At its very core, What Kind of God Do I Serve? is doing just that—training new believers to be “Kingdom” people.

What Kind of God Do I Serve? doesn’t purport to be a theology or even a catechism, but every question and every answer is under- pinned with sound biblical exegesis and upheld by solid theological thought.

I am grateful to Ezra for offering the Church this wonderful resource. Every new convert that is offered the opportunity to use it will at the same time be placed on a deliberate trajectory toward spiritual maturity, scriptural living, sacrificial loving and giving—-all traits of the mature Christian.

--Dr. Michael Avery
President of God’s Bible School & College