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If following Jesus involves a life of sacrifice and suffering, is
it wrong for a Christian to seek purpose and joy in this world?
Many Christians sense a tension between their desire to enjoy life
in this world-the beauty of God's creation, the rich love of deep
relationships with others-and the reality that this world is fallen
and broken, in need of redemption. How can we embrace and thrive in
the tension between enjoying creation and promoting redemption? By
living out our God-given purpose. As "worldly saints," created in
the image of God, we are natural creatures with a supernatural
purpose-to know and love God. Because we live in a world that is
stained by the curse of sin, we must learn to embrace our nature as
creatures created in the image of God while recognizing our
desperate need for the grace that God offers to us in the gospel.
Writing in a devotional style that is theologically rich,
biblically accurate, and aimed at ordinary readers, Mike Wittmer
helps readers understand who they are, why they are here, and the
importance of the story they tell themselves. In Becoming Worldly
Saints, he gives an integrated vision that shows how we can be
heavenly minded in a way that leads to earthly good, empowering
believers to seize the abundant life God has for them.
Christians are too often guilty of pledging their allegiance to
the influential principalities and powers of this age rather than
to Christ alone. In Holy Subversion, Trevin Wax challenges such
behavior by urging a return to the subversive lifestyle of the
earliest Christians. Their proclamation and demonstration that
"Jesus is Lord" directly opposed the Caesar worship of their
day.
Today, Christians in the West must choose between Jesus and our
"Caesars": self, success, money, leisure, sex, power. What would it
look like, asks Wax, if today's church reclaimed the communal,
subversive nature of the gospel, intentionally undermining all
contenders for our devotion? How would the message that "Jesus is
Lord" change our thinking about our jobs, our families, and our
church participation? Here this gifted pastor-theologian offers
help in taking our faith public, dethroning modern-day Caesars,
honoring the Lordship of Christ, and understanding the church as
the ultimate counterculture-an embodiment of Christ's supremacy
over all.
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