Church with Jesus as the Hero edition by Ashland Staff David Prince Tony Merida Religion Spirituality eBooks
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The goal of this simple book is to help Christians gain a Jesus-centered, gospel-focused mentality while reading and applying the Scripture and living together in the community of the church. Consider the book a quick start guide to help create a Christ-centered life and ministry trajectory. There really is a way to read, apply, preach, serve, and live with Jesus as the Hero that keeps the gospel of God’s sovereign grace front and center in everything.
Any biblical truth abstracted from the gospel is corrupted. The only possible context for genuine obedience is faith in Jesus. Therefore, genuine spiritual motivation must always be presented in terms of the gospel. We are not heroes; we are sinners, failures, and weaklings—the not-nobles of the world. Attempting to become a spiritual hero or to cultivate a heroic image is an empty, vain, hollow, and hopeless pursuit. There is only one Hero—Jesus—and he has no rivals. When we start trusting him and stop trying to be him, we can say with Paul, “For freedom Christ has set us free” (Gal. 51).
Church with Jesus as the Hero edition by Ashland Staff David Prince Tony Merida Religion Spirituality eBooks
“From beginning to end, the Bible is telling us one main story.” In this helpful, thoughtful book, we are encouraged to become experts in The Story, so that it will shape our lives and particularly our local churches. For me, the book would be worth it, just for the examples of interpreting and applying stories about David & Goliath, Balaam & his donkey, Queen Esther, and the feeding of the 5,000, but there’s much more than that. One of my favorite discoveries was this quote, “Sociologist of religion Rodney Stark notes that the city of Antioch, during days of Roman rule, was divided into 18 different, intensely antagonistic ethnic groups with almost no social integration.” This is in a section of the book entitled, King Jesus and His Multi-Ethnic Gospel Kingdom.Product details
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Church with Jesus as the Hero edition by Ashland Staff David Prince Tony Merida Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
During the course of my studies at SBTS, I was privileged to take "The Ministry of Proclamation" class under Dr. Russell Moore & Pastor (now Dr.) David Prince. In reading this book, so much of those lectures and "aha!" moments came back to me. Jesus, Pastor Prince taught us, is the point of every story, and thus to be the hero of every sermon. We are to apply our text to Jesus first, that our people might see themselves truly "in Christ." Our illustrations are to point them to Jesus (opening a window, not painting a portrait) so that Scripture's authority and Christ's supremacy are never detracted from, but rather served and embraced.
It would make sense that Christ, being the centerpiece of Scripture, would also take his place of preeminence in our leadership and administration of his Church. Enter this volume. From staffing to preaching, from counselling to announcements, Jesus is to be King. The slender book is helpfully laid out concise chapters mean that busy pastors will actually read them, and the topics are skillfully and faithful handled in an interesting style which keeps your attention. You could easily read it through in one sitting, but you'll want to read and revisit for the maximum help.
Note also that Dr. Prince is no mere pragmatist nor modernist in his work here; he has drunk deeply from the wisdom of our forebears, most notably Andrew Fuller. (It was helpful enough to push me to pick up a copy of Fuller's collected Works from Banner of Truth!)
All in all, Church with Jesus as Hero is an excellent and helpful volume which should be read by pastors, elders, deacons, and seminarians (at the very least). It will repay your time with clear thinking and biblical help. Warmly recommended.
In accordance with federal law I was provided a free copy for review purposes and was not obligated to provide positive feedback.
I found this to be a very readable, engaging work that encourages us to really think through how Jesus should be the hero of the church. This applies to preaching first and foremost and several examples of texts in which this often goes wrong as discussed. This is really the strength of the book ... learning how to read a Bible story and correct sort out where we stand in it. (Hint we are rarely the hero of the story.) I thought the example of how this applies in teaching lessons to children was also very well done.
Price goes further than that though. Everything we do in church should have Jesus as the hero. I am not the hero of my mission trip - Jesus is. Jesus should even be the hero of church announcements, if we will only adopt the mentality.
My only complaint about this book is that it has a lot of filler. It's like Prince took this to the publisher and they said "it's too short to publish like this ... can you add about 40 pages?" We ended up with 40 pages of quotations, most of them from Andrew Fuller. They are fine quotes, and he is a solid teacher from 200 years ago whom few have read. But I didn't feel like his quotes or the chapter with miscellaneous quotes from church history added to the thesis.
How much better would it have been to show how Jesus is the hero of other genres of Scripture for which there was no illustration? How about Jesus as the hero of an imprecatory psalm? How about Jesus as the hero of the list of names in Ezra 2 or a genealogy like Genesis 5? How about Jesus as the hero of a prophecy directed towards God's people, like Isaiah 40? How about Jesus as the hero of proverbs? How about Jesus as the hero of relationships in the church, like Ephesians 4? The illustrations of the method on four different texts was the best part of this book. If "filler" was needed, I would have loved to see far more examples of this worked out.
Great book!
“From beginning to end, the Bible is telling us one main story.” In this helpful, thoughtful book, we are encouraged to become experts in The Story, so that it will shape our lives and particularly our local churches. For me, the book would be worth it, just for the examples of interpreting and applying stories about David & Goliath, Balaam & his donkey, Queen Esther, and the feeding of the 5,000, but there’s much more than that. One of my favorite discoveries was this quote, “Sociologist of religion Rodney Stark notes that the city of Antioch, during days of Roman rule, was divided into 18 different, intensely antagonistic ethnic groups with almost no social integration.” This is in a section of the book entitled, King Jesus and His Multi-Ethnic Gospel Kingdom.
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