No Quick Fix: Where Higher Life Theology Came From, What It Is, and Why It's Harmful

Endorsements:

"Throughout the world people are desperately searching for the higher life, the deeper life, and their best life now. The nineteenth-century theology associated with the Keswick movement brings many dangers, and it is alive and well in the twenty-first century and running rampant in many churches. This insightful and scholarly work by Dr. Andrew David Naselli is well suited for professors and pastors as well as for the concerned layperson. Naselli provides a gracious and thorough assessment of various aberrant views of sanctification while offering reasoned, biblical exegetical conclusions on this most vital doctrine of the faith once delivered to the saints."
--Burk Parsons co-pastor of Saint Andrews Chapel (Sanford, FL); editor of Tabletalk magazine

"When I was in high school, I ordered a book called They Found the Secret, which described the second blessing experience of twenty godly people. I wanted the kind of victory over sin and communion with Christ the book described, but the breakthrough experiences they described remained elusive. I wondered if I was somehow a less-than Christian. No Quick Fix finally made sense of what I read in that book as well as much of the other teaching I received in my early years that came out of camps heavily influenced by higher life theology. By explaining the teaching and its fallacies, as well as giving the history and personalities behind it, this book not only fascinated me; it also equipped me to recognize this faulty teaching when I see it and to replace it with a more solidly biblical perspective."
--Nancy Guthrie Bible teacher and author

"I am so pleased to see this work in print. For years I have required my doctoral students to read the original academic version of this incredibly helpful work. Now its finally available to everyone in a more accessible format. It is so clear, concise, well-organized, and understandable that anyone interested in an evaluation of the higher life movementeducators, students, pastors, or laymen can pro t from Andys research. No one who wants to know more about this influential movement can afford to be without this valuable resource."
--Donald S. Whitney professor of biblical spirituality and associate dean of the School of Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

"Andy Nasellis No Quick Fix is an easy-to-read and sure-handed critique of higher life theology. Writing from personal experience and with scriptural clarity, he guides Christians out from error and into a biblically wholesome approach to Christian living. Highly recommended!"
--Richard D. Phillips senior minister, Second Presbyterian Church (Greenville, SC); council member, The Gospel Coalition

"Andy's work on Keswick theology is first-rate. This is a model of scholarship serving the church. His analysis of Keswicks history and his tight theological work on sanctification are extremely valuable. I enjoyed this book. I learned from this book. I will be able to help my congregation as a result of reading this book."
--Kevin DeYoung senior pastor, Christ Covenant Church (Matthews, NC)

"This book packs an extraordinary amount of useful summary, critical analysis, and pastoral reflection into short compass. The book will do the most good, however, if it encourages readers in a more faithful way to pursue that holiness without which we will not see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14)."
--D. A. Carson research professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; president and cofounder, The Gospel Coalition