There are six stages of spiritual growth, the Creator wants every Christian believer to experience. If you are desirous of being the best you can be, then this book is for you. Are you keen on living the best Christian experience? This book signposts each stage of progression from the conversion experience to the ultimate stage of parenthood (and grand parenthood). The eldership in your assembly wants you to grow in grace and knowledge, and to become a spiritual leader in your own right. This book is a must-read, if you want to live above the rate of common Christianity. This book aims to give you some ideas and principles to instill into your life so that you might live your Christian life above the rate of common Christianity. This book is divided up into six parts: One: Sinner. Two: Sainthood. Three: Surrender. Four: Servanthood. Five: Soul winner. Six: Spiritual Parenthood. You'll notice that these all start with the letter S, so it's easy to remember. Everyone born into this world is supposed to progress along this six-step pathway. This is the way of God. This is the way to God. This is the way to Paradise. If you have not begun this journey, then begin today. If you are stagnating on sainthood, then move on to surrender. If you are a soul-winner, then move on to spiritual parenthood. In the New Testament, we can read about what we are supposed to be doing here, in our Christian lives. The new believer needs these questions tackled: Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? Those questions become easier to answer when we know the six stages of living Above Common Christianity. Make sure you are progressing to gain the rewards in life. Make sure you are moving through these six stages to live Above Common Christianity. The title of this book comes from David Brainerd's personal diary. David Brainerd was a Presbyterian missionary to the Native American Indians along the Delaware, New Jersey. He was born in the year, seventeen eighteen, and died in the year, seventeen forty-seven. During his years of ministry, he suffered many setbacks and hardships, which he recorded in his diary. In his later years, he suffered from Tuberculosis, which eventually he succumbed to. There, as he lay on his deathbed, about to depart, he urged his brother, to live above the rate of common Christianity. David Brainerd had done that himself in his life; he had not succumbed to just going with the flow. He wanted to live to the glory of God. He was a man of intense prayer, intense yearnings after the lost, and to see his adopted people trained in the scriptures. David Brainerd had lived that himself and he had a desire that others live above the rate of common Christianity. I trust that you might also have that desire: not to be lukewarm, not to compromise; but that you would indeed desire to live above the rate of common Christianity. The purpose of this book is to help you to live above the rate of common Christianity.