NOTES
Chapter 1
1. Martin Luther, Three Treatises Paper, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia, PA: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1990), 238.
2. Ante-Nicene Fathers, ed. Allan Menzies, vol. 3, Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian (Edinburgh: T&T Clark; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans); http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf03.vi.ii.xii.html.
3. Martin Luther, Lectures on Romans, trans. and ed. Wilhelm Pauck, The Library of Christian Classics, vol. 15 (Philadelphia, PA: Westminster, 1961), 128.
4. Special thanks to Jeremy Treat for his exegetical work on this section.
5. Michael S. Horton,The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), 761.
6. Martin Luther,Three Treatises Paper, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1990), 238
7. Horton, The Christian Faith, 752–53.
8. Martin Luther, preface, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians, 1535. Abridgement and paraphrase by Timothy Keller.
9. Wolfhart Pannenberg, Systematic Theology, vol. 2, trans. Geoffrey Bromiley (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1994), 462–63.
Chapter 2
1. Martin Luther, Treatise on Good Works, parts X, XI, 1520; http://www.ccel.org/ccel/luther/good_works.v.html.
2. I think this is actually a Tim Keller paraphrase of Luther, quoted in his Gospel in Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2010), 73.
3. David Clarkson, Works of David Clarkson, vol. 2 (Pennsylvania, PA: Banner of Truth, 1988), 299–333.
4. Christopher Coppernoll,Secrets of a Faith Well Lived: Intimate Conversations with Modern-Day Disciples (West Monroe, LA: Howard Books, 2001), 213.
5. For an example of church discipline, see John Piper; http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/seminars/gravity-and-gladness-on-sunday-morning-part-1.
Chapter 3
1. Paul David Tripp,Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2002), 164.
2. D. A. Carson,Love in Hard Places (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2002), 61.
3. See http://www.thevillagechurch.net/mediafiles/conflictanddiscipline.pdf.
4. Ante-Nicene Fathers, ed. Allan Menzies, vol. 9, Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian (Edinburgh: T&T Clark; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans); http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf03.vi.ii.xii.html.
Chapter 4
1. Martin Luther, On Christian Liberty, in First Principles of the Reformation of Dr. Martin Luther, ed. Henry Wace and C.A. Buchheim, 1883 (London: William Clowes and Sons, 1520); http://www.ccel.org/ccel/luther/first_prin.i.html.
2. Martin Luther, Commentary on Genesis, WA 44,6; cited by Gustaf Wingren, Luther on Vocation (Evansville, IN: Ballast Press, 1994), 9.
3. There seems to be no citation for this quote. It’s attributed to Augustine, Luther, and Dorothy Day, and Day may be the most likely. It was popularized by Campolo in Letters to a Young Evangelical when he attributed it to Augustine.
Chapter 5
1. Charles Spurgeon, “A Sermon and a Reminiscence,” Sword and the Trowel, March 1873.
2. Joseph Pearce, “J. R. R. Tolkien: Truth and Myth,” Lay Witness, (September 2001).
3. Ibid.
4. Rodney Stark, Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome (San Francisco, CA: Harper Collins, 2007), 67.
5. This term comes from James Davison Hunter,To Change the World: the Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Chapter 6
1. Thomas Manton, ofWorks of Thomas Manton, vol. 3 (Lexington, KY: Sovereign Grace Publishers, 2002), 28.
2. Sasha Shtargot and Janine Bennetts, “Death on Everest Divides Climbers,” Age, May 25, 2006, http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/05/24/1148150327071.html.
3. Jesper Kunde, Corporate Religion (London: Prentice Hall, 2000), 4.
4. John P. Kotter, Leading Change (Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press, 1996), 148.
5. Pastor Josh Moody’s No Other Gospel is an excellent look at the gospel in Galatians. In his book and teaching, he uses the phrase “any supplement to the gospel supplants the gospel.” Josh Moody, No Other Gospel: 31 Reasons from Galatians Why Justification by Faith Alone is the Only Gospel (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2011).
6. We are grateful to Pastor Jeremy Pace for the illustration. He masterfully developed and trains church leaders using the theology-philosophy-practice house metaphor.
7. Jeremy Treat provided this illustration for us, a great example of a foundation with nothing built on it.
8. A. W. Tozer, Of God and Men, found in From the Library of A. W. Tozer by James Stuart Bell (Bloomington, MN: Bethany House, 2011), 327.
9. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2.15.1 [p. 305].
Chapter 7
1. Charles Spurgeon, from the sermon “Christ’s Triple Character” (6/16/1878; Sermon #2787), www.spurgeongems.org/vols46-48/chs2787.pdf.
2. It should be noted that these are minor differences between preaching and teaching, but they are not fundamental ones. We can parse out these differences by degree, but not in kind. For instance, Paul exhorts Timothy and Titus to “teach sound doctrine,” and we read in Acts of Paul and Barnabas “teaching and proclaiming the Word of the Lord.” Often the two are interwoven so tightly that to tease them apart is ultimately unnecessary. In the end, it is difficult to make cut-and-dried distinctions based on a comprehensive study of the two.
3. Kerysso is used more than sixty times in the New Testament.
4. R. H. Mounce, “Preaching,” New Bible Dictionary, 3rd ed., ed. J. D. Douglas (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996), 950.
5. Euangelizomai is used more than fifty times in the New Testament.
6. Mounce, “Preaching,” New Bible Dictionary, 950.
7. Martin Luther, Luther’s Works, vol. 41: Church and Ministry III (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1966), 150.
8. John Stott, Between Two Worlds: The Art of Preaching in the Twentieth Century (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans 1994), 125–26.
9. James Montgomery Boice, “The Foolishness of Preaching,” in Feed My Sheep: A Passionate Plea for Preaching, ed. Don Kistler (Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria Publications, 2001), 38–44.
10. Mike Bullmore, “A Case for Expositional Preaching,” Nine Marks EJournal (May/June 2007), http://www.9marks.org/ejournal/biblical-case-expositional-preaching.
11. Michael Lawrence, Biblical Theology in the Light of the Church: A Guide for Ministry (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010), 197.
12. John Scott, Between Two Worlds: The Challenge of Preaching Today (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1982), 7.
Chapter 8
1. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion,3.6.4 [p. 688]).
2. Sally Lloyd-Jones, The Jesus StoryBook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2007), 103–7.
3. Tedd Tripp, Shepherding a Child’s Heart (Wapwallopen, PA: Shepherd Press, 1995), 4.
4. Richard Baxter, “The Duties of Parents for Their Children,” A Christian Directory, 449.
5. We are grateful to Pastor Chris Farley for his work, Gospel-Powered Parenting. He deserves the credit for the thinking behind offensive and defensive parenting/ministry. Chris Farley, Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2009).
6. Thomas Chalmers quote paraphrased by Chris Farley taken from Gospel Powered Parenting, 24. He attributes it to Chalmers’s sermon “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection.”
7. Jonathan Edwards, “Seeking After Christ,” in Owen Strachan and Douglas Allen Sweeney, Jonathan Edwards on Beauty, vol. 2 of The Essential Edwards Collection (Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 2010), 78.
8. Ed Clowney, The Unfolding Mystery: Discovering Christ in the Old Testament (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 1988), 11.
9. See http://alvinreid.com/archives/2172.
10. A. N. Wilson, Tolstoy: A Biography (city: W. W. Norton and Company, 2001).
11. William Yount, Created to Learn (Nashville: B&H Publishing Group, 1996), 65.
12. Richard Dunn, Shaping the Spiritual Lives of Students (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2001).
Chapter 9
1. A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (New York, NY: HarperOne, 1978).
2. This section is indebted to A. D. Clarke, “Leadership,” in New Dictionary of Biblical Theology, eds. Desmond T. Alexander and Brian S. Rosner (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000).
3. The ability to teach and protect sound doctrine is a distinguishing qualification for the pastor/elder. The other qualifications are the same for elders and deacons. Church leadership should be inundated with leaders who are steeped in the gospel. And, the pastors/elders should be gifted teachers who can rightly divide the Word in both proclamation of truth and refutation of error.
4. This does not mean that a leader cannot disqualify himself from leadership temporarily or permanently. There are some sins, although forgiven, that carry the consequence of removal for the leader.
5. P. J. Buys, “The Fear of God as a Central Part of Reformed Spirituality,” http://web.archieve.org/web/20070101182437.
Chapter 10
1. C. S. Lewis,Mere Christianity(1952; New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2001), 199.
2. A video of Kevin Durant playing frat flag football, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOIa20l6SXo.
3. Jonathan Edwards, Sermons and Discourses, 1734–1738, ed. M. X. Lesser (WJE Online Vol. 19), 588.
4. Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto (New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 2009), 80.
5. Works of Jonathan Edwards, volume II, section II.
6. D. A. Carson, Themelios, 34, no. 1 (April 2009).
7. This is actually C. S. Lewis quoting Samuel Johnson, “Dr. Johnson,” as saying: “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (1952; New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2001), 82.
8. Take from C. J. Mahaney with Kevin Meath,The Cross Centered Life (Sisters, OR: Multnomah Books, 2002), 54.
Chapter 11
1. Robert Coleman, The Master Plan of Evangelism, 2nd edition (Grand Rapids, MI: Revell Books, 2010).
2. Gailyn Van Rheenen, “Contextualization and Syncretism,” Monthly Missiological Relection 38:5.
3. Charles Colson and Ellen Vaughn,Being the Body, expanded ed. (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2004), 371.
Chapter 12
1. John Owen cited in I.D.E. Thomas, A Puritan Golden Treasury (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1977), 192.
2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (New York: Touchstone, 1959).
3. David Scaer, “Luther on Prayer,” Concordia Theological Quarterly 47, no. 4 (October 1983), 305–6.
4. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 3.20.1.
5. The idea of highlighting the “evidence of grace” is due to the influence of C. J. Mahaney based on a message he delivered at the Resurgence Conference in Seattle in 2008.
6. J. I. Packer, A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1990), 65.