This collection of twenty-six essays on the Church is intended for the average reader. A few of the articles delve into primary sources and become a bit more technical, yet these are also not overly academic and are written with the purpose of applying a Biblical theology and ethic of the Church to our lives as God's people today. The book is currently offered for free on this blog's bookshop.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: A
Confessional Church of the Triune God
Chapter 2: Church
Types
Chapter 3: First Century Household, First
Century Church
Chapter 4: Family Roles in the Household
Chapter 5: Some
Negative Aspects of the Household and Challenges for the Church
Chapter 6: The
Church as Family and the Practice of Ministry
Chapter 7: Afflictions of the 'Body': The
Early Church’s Opponents and
Its Prescriptions against Heresy
Chapter 8: The Church
and Moral Mission in Mt. 5.13-16
Chapter 9: Kingdom
Movements and the Church
Chapter 10: The Great Commission in Matthew, Luke-Acts, and John
Chapter 11: The Narrative of Christ and Moral
Virtues
Chapter 12: Unity and Peace in Ephesians
Chapter 13: The Unity of John 17
Chapter 14: Christian Unity
Chapter 15: Dare We Judge?
Chapter 16: The Church is Not a Zoo:
Unity, Not Diversity, is the Church’s Communal
Value
Chapter 17: Is Diversity a Christian Virtue?
Chapter 18: Jesus and the Religion of Israel in
His Day
Chapter 19:
When
Wolves Come Among You: Paul’s Speech to the Ephesian Elders
Chapter 20: A Community of Faith, Love, and Hope
Chapter 21: Pride
and Humility
Chapter 22: Friendship, Community, and Brotherhood
Chapter 23: When ‘Preaching’ is No Longer ‘Christian’: A Study
of Paul’s Opposition
to Oratory in His Day—and Ours
Chapter 24: The
Theological Unity of the Church and Its Separation from Darkness
Chapter 25: Wine,
Food, and Work in the Church Community
Chapter 26: Our Bodies as Living Sacrifices,
Holy and Acceptable to God: The People
of God and the Relationship
between Theology and Ethics in Romans
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