The Myth of the Non-Christian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myth of the Non-Christian write by Luke Cawley. This book was released on 2016-02-17. The Myth of the Non-Christian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Evangelism is not one-size-fits-all. In this book Luke Cawley shows how we can contextualize the gospel in different ways to connect with three key demographics: the spiritual but not religious, committed atheists and nominal Christians. Filled with real-life stories of changed lives, this book is a practical and hopeful resource for helping people to encounter God.
The Myth of a Christian Nation
The Myth of a Christian Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myth of a Christian Nation write by Gregory A. Boyd. This book was released on 2009-05-18. The Myth of a Christian Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The church was established to serve the world with Christ-like love, not to rule the world. It is called to look like a corporate Jesus, dying on the cross for those who crucified him, not a religious version of Caesar. It is called to manifest the kingdom of the cross in contrast to the kingdom of the sword. Whenever the church has succeeded in gaining what most American evangelicals are now trying to get – political power – it has been disastrous both for the church and the culture. Whenever the church picks up the sword, it lays down the cross. The present activity of the religious right is destroying the heart and soul of the evangelical church and destroying its unique witness to the world. The church is to have a political voice, but we are to have it the way Jesus had it: by manifesting an alternative to the political, “power over,” way of doing life. We are to transform the world by being willing to suffer for others – exercising “power under,” not by getting our way in society – exercising “power over.”
The Myth of the Non-Christian
The Myth of the Non-Christian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myth of the Non-Christian write by Luke Cawley. This book was released on 2016-02-12. The Myth of the Non-Christian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Evangelism is not one-size-fits-all. In this book Luke Cawley shows how we can contextualize the gospel in different ways to connect with three key demographics: the spiritual but not religious, committed atheists and nominal Christians. Filled with real-life stories of changed lives, this book is a practical and hopeful resource for helping people to encounter God.
The Myth of Persecution
The Myth of Persecution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myth of Persecution write by Candida Moss. This book was released on 2013-03-05. The Myth of Persecution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of culture warriors. According to cherished church tradition and popular belief, before the Emperor Constantine made Christianity legal in the fourth century, early Christians were systematically persecuted by a brutal Roman Empire intent on their destruction. As the story goes, vast numbers of believers were thrown to the lions, tortured, or burned alive because they refused to renounce Christ. These saints, Christianity's inspirational heroes, are still venerated today. Moss, however, exposes that the "Age of Martyrs" is a fiction—there was no sustained 300-year-long effort by the Romans to persecute Christians. Instead, these stories were pious exaggerations; highly stylized rewritings of Jewish, Greek, and Roman noble death traditions; and even forgeries designed to marginalize heretics, inspire the faithful, and fund churches. The traditional story of persecution is still taught in Sunday school classes, celebrated in sermons, and employed by church leaders, politicians, and media pundits who insist that Christians were—and always will be—persecuted by a hostile, secular world. While violence against Christians does occur in select parts of the world today, the rhetoric of persecution is both misleading and rooted in an inaccurate history of the early church. Moss urges modern Christians to abandon the conspiratorial assumption that the world is out to get Christians and, rather, embrace the consolation, moral instruction, and spiritual guidance that these martyrdom stories provide.
Exposing Myths About Christianity
Exposing Myths About Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exposing Myths About Christianity write by Jeffrey Burton Russell. This book was released on 2012-05-15. Exposing Myths About Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Renowned historian, Jeffrey Burton Russell, famous for his studies of medieval history, sets the record straight against the New Atheists and other cultural critics who charge Christianity with being outdated, destructive, superstitious, unenlightened, racist, colonialist, based on fabrication, and other significant false accusations.
