The Gospel-Driven Life: Being Good News People in a Bad News World

by Michael Horton

Overview

In his well-received Christless Christianity, Michael Horton offered a prophetic wake-up call for a self-centered American church. With The Gospel-Driven Life he turns from the crisis to the solutions, offering his recommendations for a new reformation in the faith, practice, and witness of contemporary Christianity. This insightful book will guide readers in reorienting their faith and the church's purpose toward the Good News of the gospel. The first six chapters explore that breaking news from heaven, while the rest of the book focuses on the kind of community that the gospel generates and the surprising ways in which God is at work in the world. Here is fresh news for Christians who are burned out on hype and are looking for hope. Now available in trade paper.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801014635
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/01/2012
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	831,491
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Michael Horton (PhD, University of Coventry and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford) is J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California. He hosts The White Horse Inn radio broadcast and is editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine. He is the author/editor of more than twenty books, including Christless Christianity, The Gospel-Driven Life, and The Gospel Commission.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9

Introduction 11

Looking Up, Looking Out: Breaking News

1 The Front-Page God: Checking the Headlines 17

2 The Real Crisis 37

3 The Big Story 61

4 Getting the Story Straight 83

5 Don't Just Do Something, Sit There! Finding Yourself in the Story 103

6 The Promise-Driven Life 131

Looking Around, Looking Ahead: A Cross-Cultural Community

7 News of "War and Peace: God's Politics for a New Creation 161

8 How the Good News Creates a Cross-Cultural Community 191

9 The Health Page: Feasting in a Fast-Food World 219

10 Today's Headline: The Church in Exile 245

Notes 267