Destroying Our Private Cities, Building Our Spiritual Life
Publisher: Xulon Press
Published: January 21, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781594672491
Subjects: Biblical concordances & commentaries; Ecclesiology & Church government; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Religion; Fiction; Biblical Commentary - New Testament; Christian Theology - Ecclesiology; Religion / Bible / Commentaries / New Testament; Religion-Christianity - Theology - Ecclesiology; Christianity - Theology - Ecclesiology; Bible - Commentaries - New Testament
First sentence: In the three decades since the day of Pentecost, the new Christian faith had significantly penetrated the Gentile world.  Persecution following Stephen's martyrdom (Acts 6 7) scattered Christians from their Jerusalem enclaves into other parts of Judea and even Samaria (cf.  8:1 8, 25).  Perceptibly the Church, at first largely Jewish, took on a distinctly Gentile hue.  Roman roads and Roman toleration smoothed the way.
Description: Every time the church adopts the surrounding culture’s values, it dies a little. Often it is brought to the brink of the grave. In every age, the church has had to wrestle for its very life. Paul’s letter to the Philippians cuts across the misplaced values of a self-centered culture. Destroying Our Private Cities, Building Our Spiritual Life is a lay commentary, written in a homiletical and expositional style, that enables readers to hear Paul’s argument through Philippians and how the church’s flirtation with individualism has affected our faith and the life of the church. The danger of our privatized, modern faith is exposed. Both personal and church-corporate solutions to have “the mind of Christ” are given.
Destroying Our Private Cities, Building Our Spiritual Life offers the lay reader insight, and offers pastors and Bible study leaders plenty of expositional depth on Paul’s letter to the Philippians.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, The Philippian Correspondence; title: Destroying Our Private Cities (1:1-2); title: Bibliography