The Jesus Lifestyle

Practical Guidelines for Living Out Jesus' Teachings

Nicky Gumbel

• Editore: Hodder Faith
• Anno: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781473680777
• Argomento: Teologia e religione
• Categoria: Cristianesimo

What does living as a Christian really look like? What changes do I need to make to the way I live my life? How does Jesus want me to live?The Sermon on the Mount is Jesus' teaching on how to conduct our lives. While his original audience was a crowd of first-century Jews, his words are astutely relevant to 21st century living, particularly as modern Western cultural trends are increasingly at odds with Jesus' teaching. Laid out to follow the structure of Matthew 5-7, each chapter delves into the topics raised in these verses, including: - Dealing with anger
- Handling conflict and criticism
- Managing money
- Sex, marriage and divorce
- The secret of true happinessWith his familiar mix of wisdom and humour, Nicky Gumbel explains Jesus' teaching and presents practical ways to apply it so Christians can follow Jesus in every aspect of their lives.

Endnotes

1. Michael Green, Matthew for Today (Hodder & Stoughton, 1988), p.69.

2. A. B. Bruce, Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels (Hodder & Stoughton, 1987), p.95.

Chapter 1

1. Peter Tait, ‘Fame and fortune should not be our children’s only ambitions in life’, The Telegraph, 5 February 2016.

2. According to researchers from marketing firm The Henley Centre.

3. The opinion poll by GfK NOP for BBC 2’s series The Happiness Formula.

4. George Michael, ‘Freedom! ’90’, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 (1990).

5. St Augustine, On the Morals of the Catholic Church and on the Morals of the Manichaeans (De moribus ecclesiae catholicae et de moribus Manichaeorum).

6. G. K. Chesterton, ‘When Doctors Agree’ in The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond (Courier Dover Publications, 1990), p.35.

7. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, SCM Translation 1948, 1959 © SCM Press. Used by permission of Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd.

8. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (IVP, 1976), pp.72–73. Use by permission.

9. John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress (Barnes and Noble, 2005) p.261.

10. William Barclay, The Daily Study Bible, Matthew 1–10 (The Saint Andrew Press, 1975) p.99. Used by permission of Hymns Ancient & Modern.

11. Ria Higgins, ‘Sister Wendy’, The Sunday Times, 8 October 2006, © Sunday Times / News Syndication. Use by licence.

Chapter 2

1. Martin Luther King, The Measure of a Man (Fortress Press, 2001), p.43.

2. Fiona Gibson, The Daily Mail, 9 February 1992.

3. Sarah Sands, ‘Sir Richard Dannatt: A Very Honest General’, Daily Mail, 13 October 2006.

4. Paul Burnell, ‘Victim’s Widow’s Faith in Future’, BBC News, 13 April 2005.

5. Robert Wright, A Memoir of General James Oglethorpe (London: Chapman & Hall, 1867), p.102.

6. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, SCM Translation 1948, 1959 © SCM Press. Used by permission of Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd.

7. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Act IV, Scene I).

8. J.B. Phillips, The New Testament in Modern English (Collins, 1958), p.7.

9. Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution (Zondervan Publishing USA: February 2006), p.254.

10. Alistair Cooke, The Vintage Mencken (New York: Vintage, 1955), p.231.

11. H. G. Wells, The History of Mr Polly (Collins, 1910), p.19.

12. Jim Wallis, A Call to Conversion (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2005), p.135.

13. From Ronald Reagan’s First Inaugural Address as President of the United States, 20 January 1981.

14. Reprinted by arrangement with The Heirs to the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr., c/o Writers House as agent for the proprietor New York, NY.

Chapter 3

1. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (Blackswan, 2007), pp.31, 248, 250.

2. Nicky Gumbel’s reflections and commentary on the One-Year Bible readings are available for no cost on our website, and can also be subscribed to as a daily email. See: bibleinoneyear.org

3. Abraham: Genesis 11:10–25:11; Joseph: Genesis 37–50:26; Moses: Exodus and Deuteronomy; Ruth; David: 2 Samuel 16 – 1 Kings 2:12; Daniel.

4. For much of this material, I am indebted to Chris Wright’s Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament (Marshall Pickering, 1992).

5. John Wenham, Christ and the Bible (IVP, 1984), p.37.

6. For further reading see Gordon Wenham, The Book of Leviticus, New International Commentary on the Old Testament Series (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979), especially p.32.

7. Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, Vol. 1.2, pp.488–89.

8. ‘The same things, to be sure, are in the Old and the New, there concealed, here revealed, there prefigured, here made clear.’ St Augustine, Quaestiones in Heptateuchum.

9. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, SCM Translation 1948, 1959 © SCM Press. Used by permission of Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd.

10. Chris Wright, Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament (Marshall Pickering, 1992).

Chapter 4

1. Tim Rayment, ‘The Age of Rage’, The Sunday Times, 16 July 2006.

2. Letters to Malcolm by C.S. Lewis © copyright C.S. Lewis Pte Ltd 1963, 1964. Use by permission.

3. Martin Luther, The Table-Talk of Martin Luther, tr. W. Hazlitt (London, 1883), p.cccxix.

4. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, (Cambridge University Press), p.78.

5. Richard Chartres, BoL Lent Lectures 2007, Missing God – The Wrong Pathway, p.2.

6. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to ...