Get Your Pretense On!

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Table of Contents	7
About the Author	11
Preface	14
Chapter 1 - The Greatest Story in the Word: Seeing Things as They Really Are	19
Chapter 2 - The Principle of Reversal and the Upside-Down Kingdom of God	37
Chapter 3 - "There's Plenty Good Room": The Centrality of the Church in God's Kingdom Advance	55
Chapter 4 - Put Off, Renew, Put On: Getting Your Pretense On in Christian Identity	79
Chapter 5 - Representin': Adopting the Mindset and Lifestyle of a Kingdom Citizen and Christ's Ambassador	105
Chapter 6 - The Oikos Factor: Being Used of God to Change Your World	131
Appendices	153
Appendix 1 - The Story of God: Our Sacred Roots	155
Appendix 2 - A call to an Ancient Evangelical Future	156
Appendix 3 - The Nicene Creed with Biblical Support	162
Appendix 4 - Going Forward by Looking Back: Toward an Evangelical Retrieval of the Great Tradition	165
Appendix 5 - Jesus of Nazareth: The Presence of the Future	173
Appendix 6 - The Theology of Christus Victor	174
Appendix 7 - Substitute Centers to a Christ-Centered Vision: Goods and Effects Which Our Culture Substitutes as the Ultimate Concern	175
Appendix 8 - Our Declaration of Dependence: Freedom in Christ	176
Appendix 9 - Thirty-Three Blessings in Christ	179
Appendix 10 - Ethics of the New Testament: Living in the Upside-Down Kingdom of God	185
Appendix 11 - Laws of Sowing and Reaping	187
Appendix 12 - The Hump	189
Appendix 13 - From Deep Ignorance to Credible Witness	190
Appendix 14 - The Way of Wisdom	191
Appendix 15 - Understanding Leadership as Representation: The Six Stages of Formal Proxy	192
Appendix 16 - Representin': Jesus as God's Chosen Representative	193
Appendix 17 - Fit to Represent: Multiplying Disciples of the Kingdom of God	194
Appendix 18 - The Oikos Factor: Spheres of Relationship and Influence	195
Appendix 19 - Living as an Oikos Ambassador	196
Appendix 20 - Bibliography for Further Study on Getting Your Pretense On	197
Endnotes	199

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