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instead of focusing together and being unified in the person and work of Jesus Christ. These ...isms take different forms, so we ...

absolutism, often based on a biblicism and literalism borrowed from Judaism. (2) ...isms of conceptual trends. Throughout the hi ...

religionism of moralism and ethicism is astounding. How soon they abandoned reliance upon the dynamic grace of God for Christian ...

accepted the proceduralisms of what would later take the forms of methodism, congregationalism, and the like. (5) ...isms of soc ...

Christianity is not an ...ism All ...isms are antithetical to Christianity, and are necessarily a reductionism of the spiritual ...

Christ in the midst of the multitudinous expressions of His life in Christian behavior. Collectively, His life is expressed in t ...

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Chapter Eight CHRISTIANITY IS NOT PROBLEM-SOLVING In raised gold letters over the ornate entrance, the sign read "Global Repair ...

throughout the world, this institution was engaged in every feasible solution to relieve, resolve and remedy the needs and probl ...

from their problems? Jacques Ellul, French sociologist, historian of social institutions, professor of law, and an active Christ ...

throughout human history). Eventually Daniel the prophet was summoned to interpret the situation, be an “answer man,” and “solve ...

pattern of approach to the world and its problems that Christians should have. British Bible teacher, Maj. W. Ian Thomas notes t ...

(cf. Rom. 8:14), we live and act by the grace-dynamic of God as He leads and empowers genuine Christian ministry. Some have atte ...

divine life might be restored to mankind. From the cross He exclaimed, “Tetelestai!” “It is finished!” “Problem solved!” (John 1 ...

fact that religion can’t do a thing about the world’s problems – that it never did work and it never will...” 3 Failing to recog ...

and thus designated as opposing “principalities and powers’ (cf. Eph. 6:12), then it has joined the action on the devil’s playgr ...

of people and the world, they fail to understand that “God is not served with human hands” (Acts 17:25) and their attempts to he ...

Person of Jesus Christ, rather than a packaged solution to an identifiable social or personal problem. Even if the perceived pro ...

condition and situation. He is the ontological Being who activates His creation. We must recognize that there will always be pro ...

Problems are the very means by which God drives us forward. Without problems, there would be no growth.” 6 Although these author ...