{"id":19622,"date":"1999-02-20T06:29:38","date_gmt":"1999-02-20T06:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/john-bevere-breaking-intimidation\/"},"modified":"1999-02-20T06:29:38","modified_gmt":"1999-02-20T06:29:38","slug":"john-bevere-breaking-intimidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/john-bevere-breaking-intimidation\/","title":{"rendered":"John Bevere: Breaking Intimidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/JBevere-BreakingIntimidation_2006cover.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"285\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover from the 2006 reprint.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>John Bevere, <i>Breaking Intimidation<\/i> (Creation House, 1995), 205 pages, ISBN 9781591858812.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Like their worldly counterparts, Christian bookstores today seem to be laden with self-help or, if you will, \u201cspiritual\u201d pop psychology books. <i>Breaking Intimidation<\/i> is no such book.<\/p>\n<p>Author John Bevere confronts head on a spiritual problem most of us encounter at one time or another: Intimidation. He relates how a people-pleasing, conflict-avoiding, back-peddling response to difficult circumstances often causes a direction other than God\u2019s will, thereby short-circuiting God\u2019s purposes in the sphere of personal and corporate spiritual life. What is refreshing in the author\u2019s approach is how he cleanly identifies the problem: the fear of men rather than fearing God.<\/p>\n<p>While not theological by definition, the author\u2019s premise does an adequate job with a pragmatic yet Scriptural theme in identifying two fundamental truths of a vital and functional faith. Those truths that Bevere identifies are <i>knowing who God is<\/i> and <i>knowing who we are in Christ<\/i>. The author\u2019s use of numerous Biblical witnesses to drive home his points challenges the reader to a personal examination as well as prescribing an application for change. The reviewer had an opportunity to read the book at a time when intimidation was presenting specific challenges to his own life and ministry and the message proved helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Encouraging also is the author\u2019s willingness to poke at some charismatic sacred cows in the unearthing of how intimidation manifests. Bevere has produced a readable yet informative book. <i>Breaking Intimidation <\/i>can be recommended as profitable time invested.<\/p>\n<p><i>Reviewed by Ron Messelink<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sample chapters available: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charismahouse.com\/sample-chapters\/19040-breaking-intimidation-by-john-bevere\">www.charismahouse.com\/sample-chapters\/19040-breaking-intimidation-by-john-bevere<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Bevere, Breaking Intimidation (Creation House, 1995), 205 pages, ISBN 9781591858812. Like their worldly counterparts, Christian bookstores today seem to be laden with self-help or, if you will, \u201cspiritual\u201d pop psychology books. Breaking Intimidation is no such book. Author John Bevere confronts head on a spiritual problem most of us encounter at one time or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2848,"featured_media":19623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1,4809],"tags":[4815,4816,4817,3304],"ppma_author":[4723],"class_list":["post-19622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living-the-faith","category-pneuma-review","category-winter-1999","tag-bevere","tag-breaking","tag-intimidation","tag-john","author-ronmesselink"],"authors":[{"term_id":4723,"user_id":2848,"is_guest":0,"slug":"ronmesselink","display_name":"Ron Messelink","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/RonMesselink201403-150x150.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/RonMesselink201403-150x150.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19622"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=19622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}