The Wild Gospel: Bringing Truth to Life

by Alison Morgan (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $3.25

  A prophetic challenge to the Western church. The Christian faith is always subversive to the dominant world view. Jesus overturned every assumption which stopped people experiencing the living reality of God - the heart of truth. Sadly, the Western world has reduced truth to the merely rational, and then discarded it as inadequate. In Africa, and other parts of the world where God's truth has never been straitjacketed in this way, the church is characterised by a joy now absent in the West. Western culture has limited what we can believe and receive. Can we: Burst free from this restrictive secular framework? Learn not only to know truth, but to feel it, and live it? Live our faith in such a way that it becomes real to those around us? Alison Morgan shows that Jesus lived free from the culturally imposed norms which restrict our understanding of truth. Examining church history, prophecy past and present, the state of our culture and of the church today, and drawing on personal experience and the experience of others, Alison blends analysis and imagination, history and poetry in this prophetic challenge to Western Christians.

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $3.25

  A pivotal look at the impressive power and reach of the gospel--even in these times of doubt and skepticism. Alison Morgan has a theory: just as our culture has lost touch with the gospel, so the church has lost touch with the gospel's power. Instead of being powerful and life-changing, the gospel has become something tamed, packaged, and institutionalized. The Wild Gospel shakes the church out of its lethargy by reminding it of the wild spirit and raw power of the biblical narrative. The author takes a look at how the gospel's truths relate to today's changes and opportunities. With penetrating insights into both culture and Scripture, The Wild Gospel is a call to return to the radical and vibrant power of the gospel's message.

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  Paperback
  2004

  $13.87

  A prophetic challenge to the Western church. The Christian faith is always subversive to the dominant world view. Jesus overturned every assumption which stopped people experiencing the living reality of God - the heart of truth. Sadly, the Western world has reduced truth to the merely rational, and then discarded it as inadequate. In Africa, and other parts of the world where God's truth has never been straitjacketed in this way, the church is characterised by a joy now absent in the West. Western culture has limited what we can believe and receive. Can we: Burst free from this restrictive secular framework? Learn not only to know truth, but to feel it, and live it? Live our faith in such a way that it becomes real to those around us? Alison Morgan shows that Jesus lived free from the culturally imposed norms which restrict our understanding of truth. Examining church history, prophecy past and present, the state of our culture and of the church today, and drawing on personal experience and the experience of others, Alison blends analysis and imagination, history and poetry in this prophetic challenge to Western Christians.