Rose Marie Miller - From Fear to Freedom: Living as Sons and Daughters of God

From Fear to Freedom
P UBLISHED B Y W ATER B ROOK P RESS
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Copyright 1994 by Rose Marie Miller

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Miller, Rose Marie, 1924
From fear to freedom : living as sons and daughters of God / Rose Marie Miller.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-76892-6
1. Miller, Rose Marie, 1924-. 2. PresbyteriansUnited StatesBiography.
3. Justification. 4. Christian lifePresbyterian authors. I. Title.

BX9225. M457A3 1994
285.1092dc20 94-13660

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To Jack, my husband, friend, and partner,
who always saw more potential in me
than I saw in myself;

To my children and grandchildren
who are heirs to the legacy
of transforming grace;

And to the men and women who,
weary of acting like orphans,
have discovered again the delight
of being sons and daughters
of their Father in heaven;

I dedicate this book.

R ose Maries testimony is that the reality of being sons and daughters of God is at the heart of the Christian life, and to miss it is to live like an orphan robbed of joy She has the kind of excitement about Christ and the forgiving grace of the gospel that Francis Schaeffer had in his life when during a crisis he had newly discovered the present value of the blood of Christ.

There is a hunger among people today to get to the heart of the New Testament message. Becky Morgan, a lawyer in Asheville, North Carolina, recently wrote to Rose Marie about how her sonship teaching is helping her and a good friend. She says, About a year ago, a close friend of mine, wife of a local pastor, got your Sonship series, and radical changes began to occur. Though a seminary graduate, she said it was as if shed never heard of justification by faith! Becky explains:

She and I had been praying together for revival. Wed been brought to repentance over some deep sins in our families and over pride in ministry. Wed been devouring everything we could get by Dr. Lloyd-Jones and biographies of Whitefield, Edwards, and Spurgeon, trying to get ruthlessly honest before Christ. And then came your training seriesand the message of sonship and grace has come into sharp focus. We are so excited. Another friend, a leader in ministry to women, struggling with a perfectionistic fix-it kind of personal history, has been profoundly impactedespecially by your testimony, Rose Marie.

Becky and her friends are saying that they, like Rose Marie, have been surprised by grace and that they keep being surprised by grace. They marvel at the liberation that comes when you no longer think of the gospel as a message relevant only to non-Christians.