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Backslide   /bˈækslˌaɪd/   Listen
Backslide

verb
(past backslid; past part. backslidden; pres. part. backsliding)
1.
Drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards.  Synonym: lapse.



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"Backslide" Quotes from Famous Books



... hindrance of growth. The time is limited in most cases, at least, because if the justified Christian is brought to see the need and the possibility of entire sanctification, and yet fails, as so many do, to enter into the blessing, because of unbelief, he is very prone either to backslide, in which case, of course, there will be a cessation of growth, or, like the Galatians, he will submit to the bondage of legalism, and after having begun in the Spirit, he will seek to be perfected in the flesh; in which case Paul's verdict to that beloved church was not ye ...
— The Theology of Holiness • Dougan Clark



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