Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals - Softcover

Wax, Trevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433507021 ISBN 13: 9781433507021

Publisher: Crossway, 2010

Synopsis

Christians are too often guilty of pledging their allegiance to the influential principalities and powers of this age rather than to Christ alone. In Holy Subversion, Trevin Wax challenges such behavior by urging a return to the subversive lifestyle of the earliest Christians. Their proclamation and demonstration that "Jesus is Lord" directly opposed the Caesar worship of their day.

Today, Christians in the West must choose between Jesus and our "Caesars": self, success, money, leisure, sex, power. What would it look like, asks Wax, if today's church reclaimed the communal, subversive nature of the gospel, intentionally undermining all contenders for our devotion? How would the message that "Jesus is Lord" change our thinking about our jobs, our families, and our church participation? Here this gifted pastor-theologian offers help in taking our faith public, dethroning modern-day Caesars, honoring the Lordship of Christ, and understanding the church as the ultimate counterculture-an embodiment of Christ's supremacy over all.

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About the Author

Trevin Wax (PhD, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) serves as Bible and reference publisher for B&H Publishing Group. He is the author of three books and blogs regularly for the Gospel Coalition. Trevin lives in middle Tennessee with his wife, Corina, and their three children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crossway
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433507021
• ISBN 13: 9781433507021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160