| › Chapter 1 - Explanation - "New Testament Christianity". The critic will probably ask as he picks up this book: "Is this an attempt to distil the teaching of those early Christi ...read |
| › Chapter 2 - The Angels' Point of View - On Palm Sunday many of us sing a hymn containing these lines:
The Angel armies of the skies
Look down with sad and wondering eyes
To see ...read |
| › Chapter 3 - God Makes News - That this is a Visited Planet was the heart and core of the Young Church's faith. Many of the very early Christians had of course actually seen the yo ...read |
| › Chapter 4 - The Faith-faculty - Quite a number of present day Christians are consciously or unconsciously on the defensive. They are only too well aware that they are a small minorit ...read |
| › Chapter 5 - Ground for Hope - The second great quality which New Testament Christianity exhibits seems to me to be Hope. Hope runs high in the inspired pages; it is not a superior ...read |
| › Chapter 6 - Love - In English speaking countries at least we breathe such an atmosphere of diffused traditional Christianity that we are apt to take some of the major Ch ...read |
| › Chapter 7 - The Love-deficiency - We have already tried to take an imaginative glance at this planet from the angels' point of view. Probably next to the shrivelling of the faith facul ...read |
| › Chapter 8 - Peace - Despite the fire, energy, daring, hope, and faith that distinguished the Young Church, there is no trace of hysteria or morbid excitement in its re co ...read |
| › Chapter 9 - Christian Maintenance - In order to live a life of New Testament quality, we shall find it necessary to work out some kind of practi cal plan to keep us alive and sensitive t ...read |
| › Chapter 10 - Christian Service - The early vigorous Church was essentially a work ing, serving, and forward looking Church. Partly because of a sensitivity to the Spirit's direction a ...read |
| › Chapter 11 - Some Conclusions - The foregoing chapters have all been given as addresses to groups of people in different parts of this country and in California, and naturally they h ...read |
