Download or read book The Malady of American Christianity written by Franklin L. Grepke and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This author combines the Ten Commandments and how they affect the purpose of God’s plan for making Disciples. Social issues and a congregation’s lack of mission contribute to a weak and ineffective ministry. They are missing God’s specific plan found in the Great Commission. The malady or illness of a church can be cured by two things, God’s law, and the Gospel. This author brings focus to both cures throughout the book. His focus is to stir up the Christian church, one believer at a time.
Download or read book The Malady of American Christianity written by Franklin L. Grepke and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This author combines the Ten Commandments and how they affect the purpose of God's plan for making Disciples. Social issues and a congregation's lack of mission contribute to a weak and ineffective ministry. They are missing God's specific plan found in the Great Commission. The malady or illness of a church can be cured by two things, God's law, and the Gospel. This author brings focus to both cures throughout the book. His focus is to stir up the Christian church, one believer at a time.
Download or read book The Suicide of American Christianity written by Michael D. LeMay and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-05-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Christianity is dying a slow death at its own hands. Instead of positively affecting the secular culture, we are being infected by it under the guise of being seeker-friendly and loving. Soon, the church may be an exact mirror of the culture that seeks to destroy us. With a lack of strong, principled leaders, and with followers who want their ears tickled instead of being challenged to pursue righteousness, American Christianity is writing its own epitaph as it slowly dies. Unless we reverse course by embracing the complete, absolute truth of Gods Word and stop trying to redefine God in our selfish human image, only a remnant will remain from a once-powerful church. Do we have the courage to challenge our leaders and ourselves to reject secular culture and its influences? Or will we continue to die a slow death at our own hands as we continue to inhale the cancer of secular humanism? Time is running out.
Download or read book The Malady of the Christian Body written by Brian Brock and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ailments of the contemporary church are remarkably similar to those suffered by the fractious Corinthian church in the first century. This is the challenge presented in The Malady of the Christian Body, a two-volume commentary by Brian Brock and Bernd Wannenwetsch. The manner in which Paul engages questions of factionalism, sexuality, legal conflict, idolatry, dress codes, and eating habits reveals that neither the malady he diagnoses nor the therapy he offers track the dominant accounts currently on offer of the malaise suffered by today's church. This volume depicts the Apostle as carefully examining the organic whole that is the body of Christ in order to detectobstacles to the healthy flow of powers that sustain its life. The therapy that is then offered comes by way of a redirection of the Corinthian believers' attention to the ways in which they can embrace God's active working among them to heal their broken unity. This book breaks new ground in crossing and reconfiguring the traditional disciplinary boundaries between biblical studies, systematic theology, and theological ethics. ""Thick--that is the word that comes to mind for characterizing this extraordinary commentary. 'Thick' is sometimes associated with 'slow, ' but I am using the term to indicate the richness of the theological readings of Paul offered in this book. I think they touch on every theological issue we confront today. As a result I cannot imagine another resource taking its place for many years."" --Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Emeritus Professor of Divinity and Law, Duke University ""While theological readings of Scripture often glide over the text, this one plunges into it. The authors' interpretations are sometimes controversial, often highly original, and always theologically rich and insightful. Most importantly, they invite the reader to participate in their own act and practice of reading 1 Corinthians from and for the church. It is an invitation any theologian or Christian ethicist--indeed, any Christian--would do well to accept."" --Gerald McKenny, Walter Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame; author of The Analogy of Grace: Karl Barth's Moral Theology ""How are we to learn to hear Paul in such a way that we also may be convicted by his writings to the Corinthians? All too often our hermeneutical preliminaries, historical contextualizations, and efforts to find coherence serve as unconscious stratagems for evading the apostle's message. By helping us to learn to read Paul over against ourselves, Brian Brock and Bernd Wannenwetsch's immensely rewarding and illuminating commentary on 1 Corinthians points us the way to the Christ who is profoundly and truly for us."" --Robert Song, Durham University Brian Brock is Reader in Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of Singing the Ethos of God, Christian Ethics in aTechnological Age, and most recently, Captive to Christ, Open to the World. Bernd Wannenwetsch was Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at the University of Oxford, Chair in Theological Ethics at the University of Aberdeen and the presidentof the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics. His publications includePolitical Worship, Guter schneller Tod?, andVerlangen."
Download or read book The Spirit of American Christianity written by Ronald E. Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE DANGERS OF AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY written by CHRIS FRANCIS and published by Bridge Logos Inc. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The message of the gospel should be the lens through which our world view is formed. The author believes that instead our culture has made us water down the true message to fit contemporary American Culture.
Download or read book An American Revival Why American Christianity Is Failing How to Fix It written by Jon Fleetwood and published by Liberty Hill Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are 1 million fewer Christians in America every year. Data show that Christianity in America is declining at an alarming rate, Pew Research indicating each American generation is less Christian than the last. There were 178 million Christian adults in America in 2009, but only 167 million by 2019. American Christianity is failing at its primary task-making American disciples. Theologians call Jesus's command to "make disciples of all nations" the "Great Commission" (Matt. 28:19-20) because it is the greatest of all Jesus's mandates. Motivating all forms of evangelism, the purpose of the Great Commission is to increase the number of believers. But America is losing more than 1 million Christians per year. However, research also shows that "Gen Z"-the youngest American generation-is becoming more politically conservative. A study conducted by The Gild found that almost 60 percent of Gen Zers describe their views as either "conservative" or "moderate." Forbes refers to Gen Z as "possibly the most conservative generation since World War II." In An American Revival: Why American Christianity Is Failing and How to Fix It, author Jon Fleetwood explains how Christians must remove post-Westernism (Cultural Marxism) from the American Church. The American Church will then be able to reach Gen Z with the gospel by using Gen Zers' increasingly conservative political beliefs as evidence for the truth of the Christian worldview. Blending politics, apologetics, philosophy, and the Bible, Fleetwood casts a vision for igniting the next great Christian revival in America. Jon Fleetwood holds degrees from Biola University and Liberty University. He is Managing Editor for American Faith, a conservative news organization receiving over 1 million content impressions every month. Coauthor of What We're Afraid to Ask: 365 Days of Healing for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse (Circle Books, 2016), Jon was certified by Dr. William Lane Craig as Chapter Director for 'Reasonable Faith' Orange, California in 2016.
Download or read book Apathetic Christianity written by Scott Alan Buss and published by R3volution Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the back cover: Zombie Religion has captivated America...but reformation is coming...revival is coming...revolution is coming...one supernatural salvation at a time. Man-centered religion has redefined America. For nearly a century, it has recast the nation's character and culture...one individual at a time. For the sake of "progress," "seeker sensitivity," and man-centered "love," truth has been abandoned, God has been emasculated, and rebels have been made to feel warm, fuzzy, and secure from the coming judgment. All in Jesus' name, of course. The good news is that there is a supernatural solution to the darkness brought upon our culture by the false christs, gospels, and teachers of American Churchianity. Apathetic lives built upon apathetic doctrine, apathetic love, apathetic justice, apathetic grace, and apathetic truth always result from apathetic Christianity. Yet each and every one of these apathetic counterfeits can and will fall before the supernatural power of the whole, undiluted Gospel of Jesus Christ...if only we'll use it.
Download or read book The War on Christ in America written by Ratibor-Ray M. Jurjevich and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christianity Corrupted written by Marshall, Jermaine J. and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the development of oppressive Christian theologies and the normalization of white superiority and white privilege in the United States"--
Download or read book Where s Jesus written by Stephen F. Huss Ph.D. and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recognizes an alarming and increasing trend of Americans rejecting membership in organized religion and moving further and further away from Christianity. It provides a critical and historic analysis of Jesuss life, his teachings, his example for others, and his existence as a caricature in modern American denominations. The final chapter presents a new paradigm that could stimulate the revitalization of modern Christianity. The author has synthesized his Ph.D. in American studies, masters in history, BSE in education, professional training in mental health, his experiences in teaching American history, world religions, and other courses for over twenty years with his church life and personal spiritual development. This has resulted in the book that answers the question, Wheres Jesus?
Download or read book The American Masquerade written by Joseph L. Vincent and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservative Christianity in the United States has long been a beacon of hope. Conservative churches have withstood tidal waves of liberal theology and cultural shifts towards secularism over recent decades. Through it all, we have stood firm and remained committed to orthodoxy. As good as our intentions have been, however, we are not without fault. In our commitment to conservativism, we have lost our way and failed in some areas. It is important for us to be honest and vulnerable about these failings so we can correct our course and be the people God has called us to be. The American Masquerade confronts many of these failures such as: - Moralism replacing the true gospel - Impotency of the local church - Politicizing of the faith - Worshiping the nation over Christ Pastors, believers, and friends, I urge you to open your hearts and be honest with yourselves. We have done so much right, but we have also done our fair share of wrong. Let God's truth break our hearts, redirect our course, and recover our purpose.
Download or read book The Broken Heart of God written by Randy Perkins and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, by the grace of God, America is still a modern-day Promised Land. But as is--not for long. Why? Instead of grateful hearts, most American Christians give back to God a little, some, or at best, most of their hearts.This curse of lukewarm Christianity is killing our churches, destroying our nation and breaking the heart of our loving God. In this book you will discover: - The true source of America's greatness--proven by all History - The connection between our dying churches and our falling nation - Why American Christians are mostly to blame - The One and Only cure for the curse among us For every American Christian, Randy's work is a powerful but loving call--back to our nation's God-given destiny--goodness. Today, the world wonders, "Is America worth one good man's life?" Our Founders believed it. We believed it once. This book will help us believe it again! Randy has been a church planter, a minister and now a full-time author. Having lived in the birthplace of America for over two decades, he has become very passionate for both God and Country. He and his wife now live near his hometown of Mooringsport, Louisiana where he continues to work on his upcoming books.
Download or read book American Christianity in Crisis written by Paul Keith Conkin and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Do They Run When They See You Coming written by Jonathan McKee and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-07-13 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reaching Out to Unchurched TeenagersFive facts about the unchurched:1. They believe all religions have value.2. They are spiritual, not religious.3. They don’t know what Christianity really is.4. They don’t know what they believe.5. They are looking for something that works.If you want to make an impact on this generation, these are five basic rules you must understand. Author Jonathan McKee writes that by taking the time to learn students’ unique situations you show you care about them as people, not as mission projects.Informative and full of real-life examples, Do They Run When They See You Coming? provides vital information you need to better understand students outside your youth group. Yet this book isn’t a sociological or marketing survey; the tangible guidelines and methods inside help you get into the mind of unchurched students––so you can get to know their hearts. Because, as every youth worker knows, real ministry is always about getting to the heart.
Download or read book Are Christians Destroying America written by Tony Evans and published by . This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church's spiritual "immune system" has broken down, and instead of standing up to the evils that destroy our culture, we're helping to spread them. Here is a truthful and hard-hitting book for anyone interested in real revival.
Download or read book Martin Malcolm America written by James H. Cone and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reexamines the ideology of the two most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960s
