The Slow Slide: How Compromise Corrodes a Soul, and God Reaches Back

You didn't fall. You drifted. And you can't even point to the day it started.There was no dramatic moment. No fist raised to heaven. You still love God. You'd still call yourself a believer. But somewhere along the way, the Word grew quieter. Prayer grew thinner. Church became optional. And things you once would never have done began to feel normal.That is the slow slide. It is far more dangerous than a sudden fall, because you never feel it happening until you look up and realize you are somewhere you never meant to be.In The Slow Slide, Pastor Keith Charles walks you through the life of Lot, one of the most sobering and honest pictures of compromise in all of Scripture. Lot didn't wake up in a cave one day. He got there one reasonable step at a time. He lifted his eyes toward an easier life. He pitched his tent toward Sodom. He moved in. He took a seat at the gate. And a man who was never wicked at the start had to be dragged out of the fire by the hand, because he could no longer make himself leave.But this is not a book of doom. Written with the unflinching honesty and pastoral warmth his readers know, Pastor Keith refuses to leave you in the fire. Threaded through every chapter is the relentless hope that there is always a way back, no matter how far you have slid.In these pages you will discover: - How compromise actually works, not by dramatic collapse, but by quiet, comfortable drift- Why "I can handle being around this" is the lie that begins every fall- What sin does to a person over time, and why you are never as immune as you think- The staggering power of an intercessor's prayers, even for someone who doesn't know they're being prayed for- Why looking back can freeze you in place, and how to finally move forward- How God reaches into the most poisoned family line and redeems it, proven by a Moabite woman named Ruth who ended up in the family tree of Jesus ChristDrawing on twenty-five years behind the badge, his own seasons of drifting and being prayed home, and a deep love for the overlooked and the worn down, Pastor Keith offers a companion to two kinds of readers: the one who doesn't yet see their own drift and the one who is certain there is no coming back.There is a way back. There always was.Don't pitch your tent next to the sand. If you already have, get up, take His hand, and come home. He has been reaching for you all along.