We have good news for those of you who would like to read The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century. We urge all perceptive students to read this book. Despite the fact that Scott writes from the background of Anglicanism, I found much to help me in this book. His comments on jealousy as a real basis for evangelism is indeed worthwhile. God is a jealous God and we must be jealous for him.
Monotheism remains the essential basis for mission.
I have been thinking recently that those who come to the faith without a background of Biblical teaching must find the Bible a kind of mental maze as they seek to grasp its continuity. Years ago I would read Hurlbut's Story of the Bible, and through it I came to see how the Bible fit together. The greatest book I have ever found for boys and girls between the ages of three and six years is First Steps by Charles Foster. More than twenty million copies of the book have been sold despite the fact that it is a simple story of a preacher and his congregation who started out to live just as they thought Jesus would do. It did not prove to be as easy as it sounds.