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of the gospel, then it would be legitimate to refer to "the gospel according to Jesus," as does John MacArthur. 14 In so doing, ...

Contemporary evangelical thought refers time and again to Jesus "bringing" and "delivering" 17 salvation, as if salvation were t ...

activity is Himself in action. Only when the Savior, Jesus Christ, is functionally operative in the Christian do we participate ...

ecclesiastical "dispensing of grace." All of these are attempts to quantify grace, disassociating grace from God. Grace is indiv ...

and the living Lord Jesus. To explain the ontological reality of God's Being functioning in man relationally, Jesus Christ livin ...

Chapter Six CHRISTIANITY IS NOT ROLE-PLAYING The famous bard from Avon, William Shakespeare, wrote into the script of his play, ...

orchestrated and choreographed by the Producer/Director named “Fate.” “The Show must go on!” In this humanistic drama of human e ...

homosexual relationship is not a real male, and the one who plays the role of the wife in the homosexual relationship is not a r ...

The contemporary psychologism of identifying dysfunctional families and their inter-relational traits, likewise casts all family ...

nothing more than assuming the role of audience or participant in the Sunday morning “production” of a worship “performance.” St ...

Activistic religion has encouraged its cast to play various roles in support of chosen causes. Often it is the "crusader role" a ...

the basis of their new identity as a “Christ-one,” a Christian. “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; old things have p ...

false-persona of an actor or actress, but to the Reality of the Person of Jesus Christ lived out through man. This reality of an ...

Chapter Seven CHRISTIANITY IS NOT AN ...ISM In the first chapter we sought to explain that Christianity is not a religion, despi ...

The Christianity of Christendom...takes away from Christianity the offense, the paradox, etc., and instead of that introduces pr ...

readers who did not realize the double entendre of the title, and thus thought that Ellul was engaged in Christian- bashing. God ...

many tendencies, often contradictory but all covered by the relevant ‘ism.’ In a final loosening of the original knot of life an ...

The Formulating of ...isms It is the natural propensity of man to attempt to get everything figured out with finite reasoning. T ...

compartmentalize and systematize their thought into tightly formulated structures, propagated in academic disciplines such as sy ...

the divine reality of Christianity. God cannot be put in a box! When men attempt to do so, they have only devised an idea of God ...