Fight the Good Fight of Faith, English Edition

 • Fight the Good Fight of Faith: Playing Your Part in God’s Unfolding Drama

The Appendices you should study and meditate upon relevant to this lesson are the following: The Oikos Factor (App. 10) Communicating Messiah: The Relationship of the Gospel (App. 19) Going Forward by Looking Back: Toward an Evangelical Retrieval of the Great Tradition (App. 16)

Appendices

I am ashamed to think that any Christian should ever put on a long face and shed tears over doing a thing for Christ which a worldly person would be only too glad to do for money.

~ Hannah Witall Smith. Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith, Eds. Devotional Classics: Revised Edition: Selected Readings for Individuals and Groups. Renovare, Inc. (HarperCollins Publishers), New York. 1993, p. 239.

God calls us to work with him in transforming today’s urban center into outposts of the city of God. Just as the Kingdom themes of shalom and land are very material, this-worldly realities, so God’s concern is not with “mansions in the sky” but with liveable com munities on earth. Finally he will bring his city and kingdom when the time comes to “restore everything” (Acts 3:21), and evil will be judged. But God’s concern, and the present mission of the church, includes making the city a place of justice and peace now , rather than condemning and fleeing. This requires effective witness to the living Jesus Christ as both Savior and Sovereign Lord.

~ Howard A. Snyder. Kingdom, Church and World: Biblical Themes for Today . Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2001, p. 48.

We are his workmanship, created in Christ for good works (Ephesians 2.10).

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