Christianese Or Christ? Av Tim J R Trumper

If you assume Jesus'' parable of the sower is but a bland earthly story with a heavenly meaning, think again. Jesus doesn''t do bland! Read in the context of the kingdom of heaven, our Lord''s best-known parable offers a welcome tonic to faithful preachers and hearers of God''s Word while countering the infringement of celebrity culture on the church with its encouragement of pseudo-Christianity. Christianese or Christ? constitutes, then, a tract for our times. It calls those of us who preach the Word to jettison our coolness for the biblical rigor of Christlike disciple-making, and those of us hearing the Word to ponder Christ anew. His sovereign claim to our lives comports with neither an authentic Christian''s malaise, a professing Christian''s cultural "Christianity," nor a non-Christian''s selective interest in him as Savior but not as King. With eternal destinies and the church''s witness at stake, Jesus'' parable merits personal and group study, as also earnest prayer for the re