To Resist or to Surrender?
Author | : Paul Tournier |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2012-09-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781725231832 |
ISBN-13 | : 1725231832 |
Rating | : 4/5 (832 Downloads) |
Download or read book To Resist or to Surrender? written by Paul Tournier and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one has the right to equate Christianity with weakness or to imagine that the Bible teaches us always to surrender. The biblical message proclaims the sovereign greatness of God which transcends all lesser principles or standards which we might wish to draw from it. Man's great temptation is to want to know by himself what is good and what is evil. He wants to know whether he should withstand or not, but without needing any counsel from God. What is good in the Bible is not this thing or that. It is not a matter of resisting or giving in. It is doing what God wants and when he wants it: it is total dependence upon his person, not upon a moral code.