Tim Chester writes about how the Cross and Resurrection call people to a radical way of living.
The cross and resurrection provide the pattern for discipleship today, calling Christians to a radical new way of living.
The Ordinary Hero invites us to:
- live out the radical implications of grace
- apply the way of the cross: sacrificial love and service, to every area of life
- accept the pattern of suffering followed by glory as normal
- pursue spiritual power, not for its own sake, but in order to live the weakness of the cross
- embark on risk-taking lives because we're focussed on the world to come
Tim Chester writes, 'This book strikes a note that is rarely heard today. In particular, the important themes of suffering followed by glory, and the hiddenness of the Christian life, are all but absent in contemporary Christian thought.'
The book concludes with a powerful story of an ordinary hero.
Foreward
Introduction
Part One: The pardon of the cross - humble confidence
1. How do you know God loves you?
2. Will God's love stand up in court?
3. Humility
4. Confidence
Part Two: The practice of the cross - sacrificial service
5. The way of Jesus = the way of the cross
6. Everyday martyrdom
7. The value of Jesus
8. The way of the cross = the way of joy
Part Three: The pattern of the cross and resurrection - suffering followed by glory
9. No glory without the cross
10. Bondage followed by liberation
11. Hiddenness followed by revelation
12. Suffering followed by glory
Part Four: The power of the resurrection - power to be weak
13. Resurrection power, freedom and life
14. Power to be weak
15. Freedom to serve, life to die
16. The Spirit of resurrection
Part Five: The promise of the resurrection - adventurous hope
17. A renewed world of life
18. A world of justice, joy and love
19. A world worth living for and world worth dying for
20. The adventure of hope
| Contributors | Tim Chester |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781844747849 |
| Format | eBook |
| First published | December 2013 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | IVP |
