True Discipleship [Paperback] MacDonald, and 50 similar items

booklet / 63 pages / no marking / copyright 1962 / #HB Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: Author Bill MacDonald (1917-2007) was a Plymouth Brethren teacher, preacher, mentor, and author of eighty-four books, including the Believer's Bible Commentary. This 1962 work, True Discipleship, summarizes what it means to walk in the same manner as Christ walked. From the foreword: 'This booklet is an attempt to set forth some principles of New Testament discipleship. Some of us have seen these principles in the Word for years, but somehow concluded that they were too extreme and impractical for the complicated age in which we live. And so we surrendered to the chill of our spiritual environment. Then we met a group of young believers who set out to demonstrate that the Savior's terms of discipleship are not only highly practical but that they are the only terms which will ever result in the evangelization of the world. We acknowledge our indebtedness to these young people for providing living examples of many of the truths set forth here. To the extent that these truths are still beyond our own personal experience, we set them forth as the aspirations of our heart.' In the book, MacDonald reviews what he saw as the seven principles of Christian discipleship: 1. A supreme love for Jesus Christ; 2. A denial of self; 3. A deliberate choosing of the cross; 4. A life spent in following Christ; 5. A fervent love for all who belong to Christ; 6. An unswerving continuance in His Word; and 7. A forsaking of all to follow Him. The Plymouth Brethren are a conservative, low church, nonconformist, Evangelical Christian movement, whose history can be traced to Dublin, Ireland, in the late 1820s, originating from Anglicanism.