How to be Perfect - Hardcover

Harrell, Daniel M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 044655717X ISBN 13: 9780446557177

Verlag: FaithWords, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Influenced by A. J. Jacobs's The Year of Living Biblically, Harrell managed to recruit 20 members of his Boston congregation to join him in a month-long effort at living Levitically. Holiness was the ultimate goal, but so was learning. People who take the Bible seriously never know what to do with the book of Leviticus. And yet Leviticus is historically considered by Jews, and thus by Jesus, as the pivotal book of the Hebrew Bible. It's impossible to fully comprehend such key New Testament terms as sacrifice, atonement, or blood without some understanding of Leviticus. The 'second greatest commandment,' which Jesus said was 'Love your neighbor as yourself,' comes from Leviticus (19:18). As a longtime minister and preacher who had successfully skirted Leviticus for most of his life, author Daniel Harrell wanted to come to grips with all that Leviticus teaches-not just loving neighbors but the parts about animal sacrifice, Sabbath-keeping, skin diseases, homosexuality and stoning sinners, too. Yet rather than approaching Leviticus with a view toward mitigating its commands, he decided to simply obey them. The surprising lessons they learned impressed on Harrell both the power of obedience and the necessity of grace. This book traces the adventures of a group of people eager to understand the Bible by living it.

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Daniel M. Harrell is senior minister of Colonial Church in Edina, Minnesota. For 23 years he served as a minister at Park Street Church in downtown Boston

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: FaithWords
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 044655717X
• ISBN 13: 9780446557177
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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