So Great Salvation

by Barabas, Steven; Mitchell, Fred

• ISBN13: 9781597521710
• ISBN10: 159752171X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-05
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

From the Preface:Every year, during the month of July, thousands of Christians from all parts of the world gather for a Convention for the deepening of the spiritual life, lasting one week, in the little town of Keswick, which nestles at the foot of Skiddaw mountain and beside beautiful Lake Derwentwater, in the Lake District of northern England, a region famous by association with the Lake poets - Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey - and for picturesque and fascinating scenery unsurpassed in all England, if not in all Europe.Since 1875, when the first of these Conventions was held, the influence of what is taught there has been increasingly felt in the Christian world, until Keswick teaching has come to be regarded as one of the most potent spiritual forces in recent Church history. The 'Keswick movement' has become historic.... Here, then, we have the teaching of Keswick, one of the most interesting religious phenomena of our time.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Foreword	p. ix
The History and Method of Keswick
The History of Keswick	p. 15
Higher Life Meetings and Conferences Held by the Pearsall Smiths	p. 17
The Broadlands Conference	p. 19
The Oxford Convention	p. 20
The Brighton Convention	p. 23
The Keswick Convention	p. 24
Other "Keswick" Conventions	p. 27
The Method of Keswick	p. 29
Bible-Centred	p. 29
A Spiritual Clinic	p. 30
A Witnessing Platform	p. 33
Unity of Spirit	p. 34
Progressive Nature of the Teaching	p. 35
Types of Meetings	p. 36
The Holy Spirit Exalted	p. 37
The Sequence of Teaching at Keswick
The Exceeding Sinfulness of Sin	p. 39
The Keswick View of Sin	p. 40
Sin is an offence against God	p. 42
Sin is a ruling principle in man	p. 43
Sin is moral defilement	p. 44
Sin is a spiritual disease	p. 45
Sin is an acquired habit	p. 47
Sin is an indwelling tendency	p. 47
The Sin of Christians	p. 51
God's Provision for Sin	p. 61
Defeat and Failure in the Christian Church	p. 61
Glaring Difference between the New Testament Ideal of the Christian Life and Christianity Today	p. 61
God's Requirements of Christians Clearly Set Forth	p. 62
Typical Experiences of Earnest Yet Defeated Christians	p. 63
T. D. Harford-Battersby	p. 64
Theodore Monod	p. 64
Hudson Taylor	p. 65
Such Defeat and Failure the Usual Experience of Many Christians	p. 67
Wrong Ways of Seeking Sanctification	p. 69
Regarding Sanctification as a Matter of Course	p. 69
Regarding Sanctification as a Matter of Gradual Growth	p. 70
Eradication of the Sin Principle	p. 71
Suppression of the Old Nature	p. 74
The Struggle of Romans vii. 7-25	p. 75
Other Erroneous Methods	p. 83
The Keswick Solution-Sanctification By Faith	p. 84
Aspects of Sanctification	p. 84
Process	p. 85
Crisis	p. 86
Gift	p. 86
Sanctification as a Gift	p. 86
God's Provision for Sin	p. 86
The Believer's Identification with Christ in His Death to Sin the Ground of His Sanctification	p. 88
Locus Classicus on This-Romans vi	p. 89
Other Passages in the New Testament on the Believer's Identification with Christ	p. 93
The Holy Spirit	p. 93
Counteraction	p. 94
The "Rest of Faith" and Conflict	p. 95
The Place of Faith in Sanctification	p. 97
The Limits of Sanctification	p. 98
A Consideration of the Problem of God's Provision for Sin	p. 100
The Statement of the Problem	p. 101
The Divine Solution of the Problem Centred in Christ	p. 102
Christ's Triumph over Death, Sin, and Satan first of all a Personal One	p. 102
Union with Christ	p. 103
The Mediation of Christ's Triumph in the Believer's Life	p. 104
Consecration	p. 108
The Nature of Consecration	p. 110
Crisis and Process	p. 110
Denying Self and Consecration	p. 116
The Effect of Consecration	p. 121
A Final Appraisal of This Aspect of Keswick Teaching	p. 123
The Spirit-Filled Life	p. 128
The Nature of the Blessing	p. 131
All Christians Have the Holy Spirit	p. 131
Not All Christians Have the Fulness of the Holy Spirit	p. 132
The Significance of the Fulness of the Spirit	p. 132
It is a Definite Experience	p. 134
The Subjects of the Blessing	p. 138
How This Blessing is to Be Made Experimental	p. 138
The Results of the Blessing	p. 145
Christian Service	p. 148
Biographical Sketches of Some Keswick Leaders
T. D. Harford-Battersby	p. 157
Evan H. Hopkins	p. 158
Charles A. Fox	p. 160
George H. C. Macgregor	p. 162
J. Elder Cumming	p. 163
H. W. Webb-Peploe	p. 165
Handley C. G. Moule	p. 169
Andrew Murray	p. 175
F. B. Meyer	p. 182
Some Observations on the Christian Experiences of These Men	p. 186
Bibliography	p. 189
Index	p. 203
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