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Transformation over Affirmation
by Leslie Gregory · Pastor, recovery leader, author
Forty years of walking people out of shame and toward freedom. This is the book that came out of those rooms.
Available now
by Leslie Gregory · Pastor, recovery leader, author
Forty years of walking people out of shame and toward freedom. This is the book that came out of those rooms.
Why do so many sincere believers remain stuck—despite years in church, therapy, or recovery programs?
Because behavior modification is not transformation.
True freedom begins deeper.
From the back cover of the book
The man
A West Texas ranch boy who became a pastor. Four decades walking with people through addiction, shame, and the slow work of renewal. Today, Recovery Groups Pastor at Lakepointe Church in Texas.
“I have never stood above that process; I have stood inside it.”
More than forty years.
Recovery Groups Pastor, Lakepointe Church.
Married to Debbie, “who taught me to listen beneath behavior.”
Transformation Over Affirmation
The long road
A ranch boyhood
A young college pastor learns to ask, “What do you believe?”
Recovery Groups Pastor
Paperback, hardcover, and audiobook
Transformación más que afirmación
Freedom Action Plan for groups
The book
It begins one summer in Ocean City, with a young woman who could not take a compliment. Her trouble was never her behavior. It was a sentence her father repeated until she believed it.
Trying harder never reaches that deep. Adoption does.
“You did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons.”Romans 8:15
Grace stabilizes.
Truth corrects.
Time rewires.
Why it matters
“Recovery was not for ‘those people’; it was for all of us.”
Leslie tells his own story, including the day he said, “I have not been living in the light.”
Reflection and prayer close every chapter.
“Transformation is possible… because identity can be restored.”Leslie Gregory · from the Afterword
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