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In the meantime we must recognize that the presence of the Christian kingdom in the context of the fallen world of evil, instead ...

efforts to manipulate such results through man-made techniques and timetables, only reveal that religious man is still attemptin ...

Christianity is not problem-solving! Christianity is Christ! Christianity is the ontological dynamic of the divine life of the r ...

By the “obedience of faith” (cf. Rom. 1:5; 16:26) we remain receptive to His activity; submitted to whatever God is committed to ...

live, and to refuse to accept the methods of action proposed by the world,...(even) the church’s ‘calls to action’ made in miser ...

performance of problem-solving programs; the individual freedom to be man as God intended man to be. Once again Ellul so aptly n ...

and its problems, and the restoration of creation in “the new heaven and new earth.” Christianity is not problem-solving! Christ ...

Chapter Nine CHRISTIANITY IS NOT AN IDEOLOGICAL OPTION The Issue is Life or Death Those outside of the Christian faith often vie ...

a “believe-right religion” – an epistemological exercise in developing a belief-system that aligns with correct historical inter ...

Christian religion, on the other hand, may depict Christianity as an ideological option among a plurality of belief-options of e ...

family physician to find out if the doctor could diagnose some health problems he was experiencing. “What are your symptoms?” th ...

“If left untreated, you will die in the near future,” the doctor replied. “The only other option is a singular treatment regimen ...

being ‘cut out’ or ‘shut out.’ You are being given an option, an either-or choice of treatment or the rejection of treatment. Bu ...

of options. Thus he can “play God” in making the choice of “acceptable” or “unacceptable.” If a singular either-or choice is pre ...

Father but through Me” (John 14:6). This is not exclusivism; but it is a singularity of life option. “There is no other name giv ...

free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 6:23). The charge of “exclusivism” is only made by those who im ...

good news of the singular source of spiritual life in Jesus Christ, in contrast to spiritual death presently and in the hereafte ...

Chapter Ten CHRISTIANITY IS CHRIST There will be some who will think that we have belabored the point in explaining what Christi ...

Christianity. It is, therefore, of utmost importance that we re-evaluate the reality of Christianity. Followers of Jesus were “f ...

complained that everyone in Denmark considered themselves to be “Christians” because they were born into the state church and ba ...