In Pursuit of Kingdom Living
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I dedicate this book to all the discontented in the world. It is written for people who find it difficult to make sense of the teaching that they hear in the church or watch on television and who are confused about the lives they are living.
This book is for all the frustrated people who feel that believing in a loving God must make a difference in how we live and what we say. It is for all those who cannot cope with the kind of preaching, which is turning people away from church, because it is not showing the way towards a loving God. I am thinking of the kind of teaching that does not sound or feel like Jesus’s teaching, because the focus is on all the things that God is supposedly against. It is a message of judgement and condemnation based on a few debatable verses in the Bible. It fails to focus on the biggest theme of the Bible: the fight against all kinds of oppression, exploitation and poverty. Jesus is our liberator from sin and death, as well as from institutional violence.
This book is an attempt to show what a Jesus-centred theology might look like. It depicts a theology of inclusion; a theology of churches drawing communities together, not by merely tolerating people who are different to the majority, but by loving everybody and including everybody.
It is a book that sets out a passionate plea for a lifestyle that will bring people together, break down the walls that have been built between people groups, and give us a taste of the life we can expect in the Kingdom of God.
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About the Book
This book is a manifesto for church life and Christian living. It is a book that will challenge what we believe and how we live. The book wrestles with key passages in the Bible and offers principles for a just spirituality.
The book comes out of practice and reflection. Arno has been training leaders, pastors and missionaries for many years combined with his experience as a church leader, a local pastor and being the overseer of an international network of churches.
The book offers an alternative to a superficial faith that leads to bog standard answers. Instead, Arno encourages us all to have a good look at the context of each passage and to evaluate it in the light of the life and ministry of Jesus. Church life as well as Christian living becomes life transforming when what we believe and what we do look and sound like Jesus.
About the Author
Dr. Arno Steen Andreasen has been a Managing Director for over 25 years and a pastor for more than 20 years at the time of writing (2016). He is a Community Activist, Lecturer, Author, Logotherapist, Nutrition Therapist, Birkman Consultant and a Strength Coach.
Arno believes in liberating people and communities from all levels of oppression and injustices no matter if it is self-inflicted, spiritual or structural. He is passionate about challenging the way things are done by applying liberating research and theology to life.
He is excited about developing thought provoking training programmes and creating churches and ministries to reflect Jesus’s radical approach to life.