Preventing a Failing Faith

This past week, well-known preacher and author Steven Lawson disqualified himself from pastoral ministry through an adulterous relationship. Such failures always provoke innumerable questions, but one question that seems to have hit people the hardest is: If someone like Steve Lawson could sin so catastrophically and make shipwreck of his ministry, how can I have any confidence that I will finish my race well? Whenever someone who has stood as a hero of faith for so many collapses into disobedience, their failure unsettles those who learned from and looked up to them. How can we defeat the fear that our faith will fail? And, more importantly, how can we live to prevent our faith from failing? Here are five steps every believer can take to prevent a failing faith.