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Leanne Payne was called out of brokenness into union with Christ, and her nearly fifty-year journey with God has been an adventure of healing, grace, and truth--and of the accompanying spiritual battles. She has spent her life proclaiming the freeing message that Christ lives in us, and offers the ministry of Jesus especially to those suffering from the effects of past sins and woundedness, self-rejection, and long-standing addictions.By exposing her own life, complete with its triumphs and failures, Mrs. Payne brings extraordinary clarity and understanding on a surprisingly large range of subjects, including gender identity, sexual neurosis, gnosticism, false prophecy, transference, healing prayer, incarnational reality, and sacramental worship. Her story illustrates how one soul, listening to and obeying the Lord, can revel in the abundant life that is available to us all.

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Christianity

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	01 septembre 2008
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781585587445
Langue	English

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To read this book by Leanne Payne is a privilege. It is, and will surely come to be widely recognized as, a major work in spiritual autobiography. This account of her life has been written and prayed through with great sensitivity and care. It is written in the light of Holy Scripture, and is pervaded with the voices of the great classical Christian tradition. These voices have illuminated the depths and meaning of her life and thereby cast their light on us, the reader. While reading, the reader is led, nay practically compelled, to pause and reflect on his or her own life in the light that comes from God in Christ. We begin to share something of the steep ascent of which Leanne speaks.
This book is a gift that cannot be read quickly; it is far too rich, too penetrating, and too provocative for that. In her preface Leanne expresses the hope that in reflecting upon her story and undertaking the difficult work of writing it down, she will help us, the readers, to discern the calling from God and to God that pervades our story as well. In this she surely succeeds.
By all means buy this book, and take the time to meditate your way through it.
Rt. Rev. John H. Rodgers Jr. , dean/president, Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, and bishop, Anglican Mission in America, Province of Rwanda
In this book a great soldier for Christ, wearing the armor of the ages, allows us to see God s faithful dealings with a soul given to Him, and her tender and intelligent responses to heaven s call. How it all works out is a thing of beauty and alarm. You ll need to linger over it, and return again and again, for it to grow you in the power of resurrection life for the spiritual battle which is our age-the battle in which, know it or not, you are now submerged. You ll need to know who the players are and what the available resources are, and here you can get a good view.
Dallas Willard , author, The Divine Conspiracy
A provocative and moving spiritual autobiography that vividly portrays the ongoing struggle of a person of faith toward wholeness and healing. It poignantly shows how the author has been mightily used by the spirit of God to spearhead a ministry of renewal and celebration.
Dr. Donald G. Bloesch , author, Essentials of Evangelical Theology
I am delighted to recommend this fascinating account of an unusually interesting life. This is more than an autobiography, however. Indeed, the details of the author s life-told with great color and conviction-serve as the opportunities to insert deeper reflections on the significance of God s blessing on her life and ministry. I am very glad Leanne Payne did us all the kindness of writing this book. It reveals some otherwise concealed personal dimensions of her other writings. Long associated with the religious movements chronicled in this book, I particularly appreciate Leanne s keen, critical discernment concerning their history. The richness and variety of her interests and reading is simply bewildering. For example, how many renewal Christians have studied the works of Josef Pieper? Leanne has!
Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon , editor, Touchstone, and author, Christ in the Psalms
What we have here is the courageous, candid, and intense witness of a woman whose experience of God has asked, quite simply, everything from her. In chapter after chapter, readers will see what wholehearted obedience to God may cost His servant. It is an extraordinary tale.
Thomas Howard , author and retired English professor
Each path to heaven is unique. Leanne Payne s account of her journey to date relates a steep and often lonely path, full of rare terrors and beauties. Reading this rich, eyeopening memoir of pilgrimage, one cannot but be grateful for the bravery and frankness of the walker, not to mention the faithful persistence of her Guide. A story of dead ends, rabbit trails, giddy ridges, and spectacular summits, Heaven s Calling quickens and encourages one s own steps along the way.
Michael Ward , author, Planet Narnia , and chaplain, Peterhouse, Cambridge
The light from the many sides of this gem lights up social history, family dynamics, church life, the gospel, contemporary worldviews, discipleship, the stark realities of the human condition, and the riches of a living encounter with God. Yet through it all shines the life of Christ incarnate in the life of one who has found Him to be the Pearl of Great Price.
An amazing story full of great insights, and glorious interplay of theology, philosophy, psychology, pastoral skills, and costly personal journey. Christ-centred, faithinspiring, life-giving, lived truth.
Canon Robert Warren , author, The Practice of Prayer
What joy to once again read a book written by Leanne Payne! As a Christian friend for over thirty years, I never cease to be amazed-and awed-that she is such a clear channel for the Lord so that her words, whether written or spoken, drive me deeper into the awareness of Jesus within me, His forgiveness, His love, and His healing power, as well as driving me higher to more clearly envision His purpose in my life and to be a more obedient and faithful servant of His.
Leanne s gifts and ministry have brought wholeness to thousands throughout the world, and I pray that through this deeply personal, soul-searching, and soul-healing book, she will touch many new hearts with a love for Jesus and an assurance He is in every breath we draw. I never leave her presence or finish reading one of her books without being deeply touched-and changed. I pray all will share that life-changing experience.
Joan Francis , past and present trustee for Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, Episcopal Renewal Ministries, and the American Anglican Council
HEAVEN S CALLI NG
A Memoir of One Soul s Steep Ascent
Leanne Payne
2008 by Leanne Payne
Published by Baker Books a division of Baker Publishing Group P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 www.bakerbooks.com
Printed in the United States of America
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-for example, electronic, photocopy, recording- without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Payne, Leanne. Heaven s calling : a memoir of one soul s steep ascent / Leanne Payne. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-8010-1312-6 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-8010-7199-7 (intl. pbk.) 1. Payne, Leanne. 2. Spiritual life-Christianity. 3. Spiritual healing. I. Title. BR1725.P325A3 2008 277.3 082092-dc22 [B]
2008017083
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture is taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good New Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture marked Cassirer is taken from Heinz W. Cassirer, God s New Covenant: A New Testament Translation (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989).
Scripture marked NIV is taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION . NIV . Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.
Other versions cited are King James Version (KJV), The Amplified Bible (AMP), Revised Standard Version (RSV), New American Standard Bible (NASB), and Jerusalem Bible (JB).
To the memory of Mother and to those generations of family members who have gone before me, carrying forth and sowing the golden seeds of the Gospel
Brothers who are dedicated to God, you who are sharers in heaven s calling, because of all this you must fix your attention on Him whom our creed holds to be the apostle and the high priest of God, I mean Jesus.
Hebrews 3:1 William Barclay translation
For the one who runs toward the Lord, there is no lack of space. The one who ascends never stops, going from beginning to beginning, by beginnings that never cease.
Gregory of Nyssa
Contents
Preface
Part 1 1932-1958
1. Hard Times
2. God, Our Source and Being
3. My All-Time Heroine, Mother
4. A Home Brings Us Together Again
5. Grandma
6. The Influence of My Extended Family
7. The Fateful Move
8. The Remedial Path
Part 2 1958-1965
9. Home to the Father
10. The Lighted Path: The Spirit and the Gifts Are Ours
11. Learning Lessons through Spiritual Battle
12. Foundational Lessons
13. The Unthinkable Looms: Time to Leave Home?
14. Life at Wheaton Academy
15. The Birthplace of Renewal
Part 3 1965-1976
16. Choosing a Goal
17. The Joy of Academe
18. Modern Myth with Professor Kilby
19. Revival!
20. In the Night My Heart Instructs Me
Part 4 1976-
21. The Search for Home
22. Beauty and Truth in the Midst of Spiritual Battle
23. An Abundance of Seeds to Sow
24. The Year at Yale
25. Interlude-Henri Nouwen
26. Joy in the Midst of Incorporation
27. For Such a Time as This
28. Jubilation!
Acknowledgments
Notes
Preface
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, This is the way; walk in it.
Isaiah 30:21 NIV
To hearken to the call of the Lord is, as Gregory of Nyssa said centuries ago, to go from beginning to beginning, by beginnings that never cease. Born to adversity, we are born as well to listen, to hear God calling us back to Himself, calling us to climb the steep ascent back to heaven, our home . This book is about one soul s arduous battle to overcome her deafness, and then the learning how, through prayer, to help others overcome theirs. Though supernatural and miraculous, this is merely the living out of our baptism into Christ.
Writing the story of my life and ministry has not been easy. There have been many levels to it: the outer and the inner story, the physical, the emotional, and the spiritual all coming into play. In addition, and almost as significant, is the way the multifaceted lives of others have impacted my own.
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