The Four L's and The Four Traits
Maturing in Christ without the Influence of Organized Religion
The Four L’s and the Four Traits presents a biblically grounded framework for spiritual maturity from the Yeshuan perspective that is deliberately independent of organized religion. Drawing on decades of study and teaching, the book outlines a simple but rigorous model for growing in Christ through personal responsibility, humility, and direct engagement with truth. Rather than offering doctrine or institutional guidance, it frames spiritual development as a lived process shaped by choice, reason, and inward conviction.
The book introduces two interrelated movements. The Four L’s (Light, Learning, Love, and Liberty) describe a continual “wash cycle” through which individuals mature in faith and action. The Four Traits explore how deeper spiritual clarity often emerges through hardship, disorientation, and testing. Together, these cycles provide a practical and experiential approach to living in spirit and truth—emphasizing freedom, love, and personal accountability over external authority or religious systems.
*Out of limited resources, this book is raw and unedited. We look forward to polishing and editing in the future; for now, enjoy Shawn's unadulterated writing!
Sample: Preface
To YAHAVAH, faith from the heart.
To YAHAVAH and Man, love from the will.
In life, reason from the mind and emotions.
- Shawn McCraney
After nearly forty years of searching, vetting, testing and teaching through the scripture in an attempt to discover simple but through-line principles to live by, we, the founders of Yeshuan’s, have discovered a biblically based approach to maturing in the faith walk with Christ.
It is not systematic as the principles overlap on each other and work together in an interrelated way to bring seekers of God in spirit and truth to fruitful ends.
Additionally, each of us have personally experienced the value in the pursuit of what we call, The Four L’s and the Four Traits and want to share the model with others.
It is important that you, the viewer/reader understands how the “Yeshuan approach” to the faith is unique in the world of Christian expressions. For example, Yeshuan’s maintain that . . .
- God was in Christ and reconciled the world Himself once and for all. (2nd Corinthians 5)
- That Christ returned as promised and took His pure and holy Bride to the New Jerusalem above.
- That the world has been returned to the of Eden state spiritually and the Spirit of Christ that reconciled the world via the forgiveness of sin is within all people.
- That life in the day and age is a proving ground allowing all human beings to freely choose how to live by the flesh (Spirit of Man) or the Spirit of Christ, whose fruit is agape love.
- That the Spirit of Christ is calling to all here and now in all human beings to receive and believe and live.
- That the Spirit of Man governs this world and the citizens thereof and has fruit only applicable in the material realm.
- For those who choose to enter into the family of God through Christ and His Bride by faith, the modern Christian faith is
- Subjective and in the hands of the Spirit. (All B&M and authority is over)
- Exists to prepare His children to be Sons and Daughters (exanastasis).
- As Yeshuan’s and through our understanding of the Scripture we believe that the Four L’s and Four Traits, when understood and in hand will help grow seekers of God in Spirit and Truth, enabling them to break from the influence of the Spirit of the World and to mature in Spirit and truth.