Jesus taught that love for others is the path to God, that you can't love God if you don't love your neighbor. In An Evangelical Social Gospel?, Tim Suttle shows how the exaggerated individualism of American culture distorts the gospel and weakens the church. He reaches back a full century to the writings of the great Baptist pastor Walter Rauschenbusch and offers an imaginative vision for how evangelicals can once again impact the world. Bypassing the culture wars and liberal/conservative squabbling, Suttle offers a way in which the corporate nature of Christianity can be held alongside the evangelical belief in personal salvation. In so doing, Suttle provides valuable theological rationale for the moves many are making toward social justice and helps us rediscover why the nexus of personal and corporate faith is where we find the power to transform lives and cultures alike. His approach to corporate sin and salvation, the kingdom of God, and missional theology are deeply rooted in the life of a pastor, yet informed by a rich theological mind.
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Timothy L. Suttle. An Evangelical Social Gospel?
An Evangelical Social Gospel?
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Rock and Roll, Shotguns, and the Art of Car Maintenance
2 Rugged Individualism, Amsterdam, and Walter Rauschenbusch
3 Hell’s Kitchen
4 The Gospel among Radical Individualists
5 Created in the Image to Be an Image
6 A Serious and Humble Sense of Sinfulness
7 A Mess of Our Own Making
8 Corporate Salvation
9 The Good News of the Kingdom of God
10 Finding Faith
11 What Kind of Story Are You In?
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Finding God’s Story in the Midst of Extremes
Tim Suttle
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One of the great pleasures of reading Rauschenbusch is his witty writing style and his ability with metaphor such as: “Wealth—to use a homely illustration—is to a nation what manure is to a farm. If the farmer spreads it evenly over the soil, it will enrich the whole. If he should leave it in heaps, the land would be impoverished and under the rich heaps the vegetation would be killed.”
Likewise, Suttle will make you smile with his entertaining writing style and illustrations. Take this one for example: “Belief is a slippery concept. Just imagine you are pulled over by a police officer for driving seventy-five where the limit is fifty-five miles per hour. He asks you why you were driving so fast. Would you say, ‘I know the speed limit is only fifty-five, I believe that in my heart. In fact, I was going fifty-five in my heart, it’s just that I was in a hurry on the outside!’ Once the officer stops laughing, you’re going to get a ticket. Faith is like that. It’s not simply an inner phenomenon.”
