No God but God/Breaking With the Idols of Our Age

by Guinness, Os; Seel, John

• ISBN13: 9780802463364
• ISBN10: 0802463363
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-09-01
• Publisher: Moody Pub

Summary

The evangelical movement is in deep disarray. Many doubt it can be defined; some question whether it has a future. But the authors of this book forcefully declare otherwise. Beginning with a trumpet call for revival and reformation, they confront the heart of evangelical captivity -- the idols in our churches and our hearts. Modern tools and insights taken to excess -- from politics, psychology, marketing, and management -- have become points of false reliance and substitutes for God. No God But God is an urgent reminder for all evangelicals who sorrow over our condition. Temptation to idolatry is everyone's problem, and often the worst temptations come from the best gifts. In order to let God be God, Christians must worship and love God alone.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Preamble: A Serious Call to Evangelicals in America	p. 11
Introduction: The Idols in Our Churches and Hearts	p. 23
The Idol Factory	p. 29
Up to Our Steeples in Politics	p. 49
Nostalgia for a Lost Empire	p. 63
More Victimized Than Thou	p. 81
Leaving Psychology Behind	p. 95
America's Last Men and Their Magnificent Talking Cure	p. 111
The Grand Inquisitor Lives	p. 133
Sounding Out the Idols of Church Growth	p. 151
The D-Min-ization of the Ministry	p. 175
On Not Whoring After the Spirit of the Age	p. 189
Afterword: God's Impossible People	p. 205
Notes	p. 217
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