By John Stott
The paintings of a life-time, from one of many world's so much influential thinkers, in regards to the middle of the Christian faith.
"I may well by no means myself think in God, if it weren't for the go ... within the genuine international of soreness, how may one worship a God who used to be resistant to it?" With compelling honesty John Stott confronts this iteration with the centrality of the move in God's redemption of the area -- a global now haunted by means of the stories of Auschwitz, the discomfort of oppression and the threat of nuclear war.
Can we see triumph in tragedy, victory in disgrace? Why should still an item of Roman distaste and Jewish disgust be the logo of our worship and the axiom of our religion? And what does it suggest for us today?
Now from one of many most suitable preachers and Christian leaders of our day comes theology at its readable most sensible, a latest restatement of the which means of the go. on the go Stott unearths the majesty and love of God disclosed, the sin and bondage of the area exposed.
More than a learn of the atonement, this ebook brings Scripture into dwelling conversation with Christian theology and the 20 th century. What emerges is a development for Christian existence and worship, desire and mission.
Destined to be a vintage examine of the guts of our religion, Stott's paintings is the made from a uniquely proficient pastor, pupil and Christian statesman. His penetrating perception, charitable scholarship and pastoral heat are certain to feed either middle and brain.
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In addition to being necessary and voluntary, his death was altruistic and beneficial. He undertook it for our sake, not for his own, and he believed that through it he would secure for us a good which could be secured in no other way. The Good Shepherd, he said, was going to lay down his life 'for the sheep', for their benefit. '! There 1 Tn. 10:11, 15; Lk. 22:19; Rom. 5:8; Eph. 5:2; 1 Thes. 5:10; Tit. 2:14. Professor Martin Hengel has shown with great erudition that the concept 62 Approaching the cross Looking below the surface is no explanation yet, and no identification of the blessing he died to procure for us, but at least we are agreed over the 'for you' and 'for us'.
At times it is conceived negatively as redemption, forgiveness or deliverance. At other times it is positive - new or eternal life, or peace with God in the enjoyment of his favour and fellowship.? The precise vocabulary does not matter at present. The important point is that it is in consequence of his death that he is able to confer upon us the great blessing of salvation. Thirdly, Christ died for our sins. Our sins were the obstacle preventing us from receiving the gift he wanted to give us.
The martyrs were joyful, but he was sorrowful; they were eager, but he was reluctant. How can we compare them? How could they have gained their inspiration from him if he had faltered when they did not? Besides, up till now he had been clear-sighted about the necessity of his sufferings and death, determined to fulfil his destiny, and vehement in opposing any who sought to deflect him. 16 These particular Greek words occur in Mt. 26:37; Mk. 14:33 and Lk. 22:44. B. B. Warfield's essay is published in his Person and Work, pp.