Faithful Resistance, Volume 2

Formation, Conscience, and the Counterfeit

Mike Henderson

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN:
  9798385281527
  9798385281534
• eBook ISBN:
  9798385281541
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

Faithful Resistance: Formation, Conscience, and the Counterfeit moves beneath the surface of cultural crises to examine the deeper architecture of the human person. Why do false worldviews arise? Why do systems harden against correction? Why does authority distort when detached from revelation? Tracing the movement from Eden to the present, Mike Henderson shows how incompleteness enters when revelation is refused and how counterfeit systems emerge to manage what only Christ can complete. Drawing on Scripture and theological clarity, he exposes the inner logic of deception and the necessity of coercion where truth is rejected. This is not a political manifesto or an academic treatise but a call to formation and to faithful resistance, not as reaction but as obedience formed under truth. Henderson explores the design of spirit, soul, and body, the restoration of conscience under Christ, and the limits of self-grounding systems. In a world tempted to manufacture meaning, belonging, and moral authority, this book calls believers back to the only true completion: Christ himself. This is the story of how incompleteness gives rise to illusion and how Christ restores wholeness.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Series Preface
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: The Beauty of Wholeness in Christ
• Chapter 2: “Where Are You?”
• Chapter 3: The Crisis of Incompleteness and the Fullness of Christ
• Chapter 4: The Fall as the Origin of Incompleteness
• Chapter 5: Revelation and the Limits of the Human Mind
• Chapter 6: The Six Worldview Tests
• Chapter 7: Why Counterfeits Must Arise
• Chapter 8: From Illusion to Enforcement
• Chapter 9: Secularism and Naturalism: Meaning Without God
• Chapter 10: Expressive Self & Critical Theory: Belonging Without Covenant
• Chapter 11: Gnostic Transcendence: Completion Without Redemption
• Chapter 12: The Hardening of the Counterfeit
• Chapter 13: The Soul Restored
• Chapter 14: Courage and the Will Under God
• Chapter 15: Embodied Sanctification: Alignment Lived in Time
• Chapter 16: Formed Under the Reign of Christ
• Chapter 17: The New Jerusalem: Completeness Made Visible
• Epilogue: When Formation Becomes Witness
• Appendix I: Creation Cannot Close Itself
• Appendix II: Tripartite Anthropology
• Appendix III: The Formation of Faithful Witness
• Appendix IV: Sovereignty, Obedience, and the Category Error
• Appendix V: The Schemes of the Adversary
• About the Author