Obedience: is not a dirty word

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Date posted:  1 Feb 2018
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Obedience: is not a dirty word

GOOD WORKS AND REWARDS
By
Mark Jones
Christian Focus. 103 pages. £4.99
ISBN 978 1 527 100 442

There can be a tendency among the churches that the good news of grace is so much stressed that any mention of obedience is met with suspicions of legalism, moralism and deadly religion. We don’t take obedience as seriously as we might.

But Paul introduces the gospel in Romans by referring to it as ’the obedience of faith.’ This book, by Mark Jones, of Faith Presbyterian Church in Vancouver, encourages us to think again about the need for obedience.

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Quite useful

Quite useful

This makes a good little introduction to Paul’s wonderful letter to the Colossians and its appendix, the plea to Philemon …

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