The World-Tilting Gospel: Embracing a Biblical Worldview and Hanging on Tight

by Dan Phillips

Publisher:

Kregel

, 2011

Overview

The first generation of Christians turned the world upside down. But the church today is being turned upside down by the world. Why? And why aren't we--with all our social medias and high-tech gadgets--more effectively producing Christ-centered, Gospel-liberated, biblically-instructed, world-tilting believers?

In The World-Tilting Gospel, popular blogger Dan Phillips lays out four reasons why the first believers had more impact on their culture than today's church has on contemporary society. Using a whole-Bible approach to the Gospel, Phillips shows who we really are, what kind of world we are really living in, who God really is, and what difference the Gospel really makes in our everyday lives. Drawing from decades of studying the Bible's Hebrew and Greek texts, Dan Phillips offers a conversational and engaging challenge to embrace a biblical worldview--and hang on tight.

Key Features

• Explores the issue of how converts to Christ today differ from those of the past in that few have an understanding and a biblical worldview about the need for and nature of the Gospel
• Studies the ways in which the world now tilts Christians due to exposure to bad theology
• Points out the need of the church for a strategic, full-orbed, robust, and biblical grasp of the Gospel of Christ and its transformative implications

Contents

• Introduction: Now We Have the Buck, So Where’s the Bang?

Part One: Who Are We? Getting at the Truth of Our Identities

• Knowing God and Man: Which Comes First? What Difference Does It Make?
• What Happened in the Garden: Here We Are, Baby: Created, Tested, Ruined—We’re Ours
• Like Father, Like Son: Any Hope That Was an Isolated Incident?

Part Two: What Has God Done for Us? The Eternal Plan Conceived, Predicted, Executed

• The God Who Plans: Can’t Grasp the Deed Without a Glimpse of the Doer
• God’s Rescue Operation Outlined: God’s Holy, Loving Wisdom Confronts Our Hopeless, Desperate Need
• God’s Rescue Operation Executed: God Enters Enemy Territory to Seek and to Save

Part Three: How Do We Get In? A Tale of Two Towering Truths

• First Towering Truth—Declared Righteous: How God Deals with Our Bad Record
• Second Towering Truth—Born from Above: How God Deals with Our Bad Nature

Part Four: How Do We Get Going? Preparing to Launch

• The Struggle of New Life: Growth Is Hard
• Gutless Gracers and Crisis Upgraders: Two Misguided Mind-Sets That Are Barriers to Genuine Christian Growth
• The Quagmire of Muzzy Mysticism: Shall We Melt into Christ and Limply “Let” Him Live Through Us?
• What About the Flesh? Christians’ Biggest Problem Isn’t External
• What About the Holy Spirit? Demystifying the Mysterious Person of the Trinity—a Little!
• Culmination: Putting It All Together

Praise for The World-Tilting Gospel

"Pick this book up, flip to any page, and start reading. You won't want to put it down."

--Robert L. Plummer, author of 40 Questions About Interpreting the Bible

"This book is a great tonic for the postmodern tendencies that poison so many young minds today."

--Phil Johnson, Executive Director of Grace to You Ministries and co-founder of the Pyromaniacs blog

"Pithy, pointed, perceptively biblical. Dan Phillips unpacks the Gospel's practical im plications in this wonderfully readable and supremely helpful handbook.”

--John MacArthur, Best-selling author and Bible teacher for Grace to You Ministries

Product Details

• Title: The World-Tilting Gospel: Embracing a Biblical Worldview & Hanging on Tight
• Author: Dan Phillips
• Publisher: Kregel
• Print Publication Date: 2011
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 314
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Christianity › Philosophy; Christian philosophy; Ideology › Religious aspects--Christianity; Christianity › Essence, genius, nature
• ISBNs: 9780825439087, 0825439086
• Resource ID: LLS:WRLDTLTNGGSPL
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-01-21T00:41:57Z

About Dan Phillips

Dan Phillips is an international conference speaker and pastor of Copperfield Bible Church in Houston, TX. Phillips earned his MDiv from Talbot Theological Seminary and has taught seminary and college level courses in New Testament studies, Hebrew, and Old Testament studies. He is the author of The World-Tilting Gospel and regularly contributes to the Pyromaniacs blog.