Holy Subversion (Foreword by Ed Stetzer): Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals
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Overview
Christians are too often guilty of pledging their allegiance to the influential principalities and powers of this age rather than to Christ alone. In Holy Subversion, Trevin Wax challenges such behavior by urging a return to the subversive lifestyle of the earliest Christians. Their proclamation and demonstration that “Jesus is Lord” directly opposed the Caesar worship of their day.
Today, Christians in the West must choose between Jesus and our “Caesars”: self, success, money, leisure, sex, power. What would it look like, asks Wax, if today’s church reclaimed the communal, subversive nature of the gospel, intentionally undermining all contenders for our devotion? How would the message that “Jesus is Lord” change our thinking about our jobs, our families, and our church participation? Here this gifted pastor-theologian offers help in taking our faith public, dethroning modern-day Caesars, honoring the Lordship of Christ, and understanding the church as the ultimate counterculture-an embodiment of Christ’s supremacy over all.
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- Urges a return to the subversive lifestyle of the earliest Christians.
- Draws out the implications of true allegiance to Jesus Christ.
- Provides medicine for the heart.
Trevin Wax faithfully sounds the call for world-changing, Christ-exalting Christian practice. By unmasking contemporary ‘Caesars,’ he reveals real dangers and points to pitfalls of which many believers are completely unaware. This book serves as a helpful reminder and competent guide to draw out the implications of true allegiance to Jesus Christ.
--R. Albert Mohler Jr., President and Centennial Professor of Christian Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
How should God’s American people put the lordship of Jesus Christ on display in their lives? Wax’s searching answer is biblical, basic, businesslike, and blunt.
--J. I. Packer, Late Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology, Regent College
Christianity is all about paradox. We lose our lives to gain them. We find life in crucifixion. We serve in order to reign. In his book, Holy Subversion, Trevin Wax takes up the question of how to be both a rebel—against the false authorities of this time—while simultaneously being submissive—to the divine authority of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. This book is a helpful warning against both nihilism and cynicism.
--Russell Moore, Public Theologian, Christianity Today; Director, Christianity Today’s Public Theology Project
- Title: Holy Subversion (Foreword by Ed Stetzer): Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals
- Authors: Dr. Ed Stetzer, Trevin Wax
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2011
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Christian life; Jesus Christ Lordship; Jesus Christ; Lordship of Jesus Christ
- ISBNs: 9781433523410, 9781433507021, 1433523418, 1433507021
- Resource ID: LLS:17DDE2821D308449F080361C357EE95A
- Resource Type: Monograph
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