Authors: Donald C. Posterski
ISBN-13: 9780830823871, ISBN-10: 0830823875
Format: Paperback
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Enemies lurk in all corners -- in our churches and in the world. Their faces are different, but they are equally deceptive. We must learn to recognize the enemies before our minds are twisted by their ungodly concepts. Some enemies come in the form of popular Christian concepts that are not truly biblical, such as Quick-Fix Faith Feeling-Only Faith One-Sided Faith Spiritual Superiority. Other enemies are the common notions we absorb from our world, such as Self-Reliance: Affluenza: Shallow Character Development: Privatized Faith. In this book Don Posterski offers sound counsel in learning to be "wise as serpents and innocent as doves." Ultimately, we need not simply to resist but to love our enemies, and Posterski helps us find strategies for relating to and living among enemies with smiling faces.
Introduction | 9 | |
Part 1 | Christian Enemies with Smiling Faces | 13 |
1 | Quick-Fix Faith | 15 |
2 | Feeling-Only Faith | 24 |
3 | One-Sided Faith | 33 |
4 | Spiritual Superiority | 44 |
5 | Depreciating the Image of God | 54 |
Part 2 | Worldly Enemies with Smiling Faces | 63 |
6 | Self-Construction | 65 |
7 | Affluenza | 75 |
8 | Character Without Design | 85 |
9 | Privatized Faith | 95 |
Part 3 | Learning to Relate to Enemies with Smiling Faces | 105 |
10 | Dealing with Diversity | 107 |
11 | Balancing Conviction and Compassion | 120 |
12 | Dignifying Cultural Differences | 134 |
13 | Global Citizenship | 146 |
14 | Global Engagement | 155 |
Part 4 | Strategies for Living Among the Enemies | 169 |
15 | Self Care: Nurturing a Mature Spine of Identity | 173 |
16 | Soul Care: Scripting My Story in God's Story | 184 |
17 | Outreach: Making Meaning of God's Gospel Story | 193 |
18 | Social Care: Pursuing God's Justice Story | 207 |
Epilogue | 218 | |
Notes | 220 |