Seven Wrong Relationships

The book opens with Matthew 10:16 from the New Living Translation. Its central claim is that those reborn in Christ cannot have their lives destroyed by the devil, yet he can still place harmful people in their path to weaken their effectiveness and sideline their work for God.

Evangelist and Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth describes seven kinds of wrong relationships that believers should learn to recognize and cut loose. These include the person who grabs control of your authority, the one who drains your peace, the one who drains your joy, the one who feeds your fleshly desires, the one who ridicules your faith, the one who blocks your progress, and the one who becomes an unwanted third voice in your marriage. The author argues against excusing or enabling such people, and instead shows readers how to assert spiritual authority and take dominion over their own lives, combining the wisdom of a serpent with the gentleness of a dove.

Jonathan Shuttlesworth is an evangelist and the founder of Revival Today, a global ministry devoted to reaching lost and hurting people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He also pastors Revival Today Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a Holy Spirit-filled, Bible-believing congregation that serves families and the wider nation.