Following Jesus
Subtitle: the heart of faith and practice
By: by Paul Anderson
Publisher: Barclay Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newberg, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781594980282
Subjects: Christian life; Quaker authors; Society of Friends; Discipline
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. The dedicated life.; title: Part I. Following Jesus. On following Jesus; title: On reviving primitive and apostolic Christianity; title: One body, many parts; title: The present leadership of the resurrected Lord; title: Attending, discerning, minding; title: Part II. Evangelism and convincement. The power of the good news; title: Convincement versus coercion; title: Answering 'that of God' in everyone; title: On being Great Commission Quakers; title: What canst thou say; title: Part III. Worship and transformation. Transforming worship; title: The life of devotion; title: The Lord's Prayer as a transformative pattern; title: Embracing the silence; title: On worshiping in spirit and in truth; title: Part IV. Ministry and Christian service. Apostolic ministry; title: Members of the crew; title: The prepared messenger; title: The universal ministry; title: A motion of love; title: Part V. Sacraments and sacramental living. A theology of presence; title: On the character of sacramentality; title: On spiritual reality and its representations; title: On graven images and riven veils; title: On letting our lives preach; title: Part VI. Blessed are the peacemakers. On peaceable ends and peaceable means; title: On peace prayers and war prayers; title: On the sovereignty of nations and the Kingdom of God; title: The counterviolent way of Jesus; title: Jesus' teachings on peace : an ethic for all Christians; title: Peacemaking at home and abroad; title: Part VII. Testifying to the truth. Testimonies, not distinctives; title: Integrity in speech and deed; title: Simplicity and vocation; title: Faithful witness and social concern; title: On radical discipleship : the centered life; title: Epilogue. Humble learners in the school of Christ.