Reasons for Backsliding

Not Praying – Matthew 26:41

Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Being infants – 1 Corinthians 3:1

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?

Loving money – 1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Bad Company – 1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits

Godless chatter – 2 Timothy 2:16

But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.

Questions in Philippians

. What then? – 1:18

Questions in Ephesians 

. Now that He also ascended, what is descended first into the lower parts of earth – 4:9

Quotes 

. If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things.  It is we, of course, to whom things look “little” or “big.” - Elisabeth Elliot

. Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love, and the future to God’s providence. - Augustine

. God does not need our money.  But, you and I need the experience of giving it. - James Dobson

. The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men. - Augustus William Hare