Not I, but Christ

by Stephen F. Olford, Billy Graham (Foreword)

Biblical, balanced, and practical. Not I But Christ is a message sorely needed in our time. No reader can ponder its truth without being challenged and changed.
--Billy Graham With spiritual insight and penetrating skills, Stephen Olford goes right to the core of biblical Christianity. In this day when human effort often passes for spiritual zeal, this is a welcome, penetrating, and vital book.
--Adrian Rogers The message 'not I, but Christ' needs to be sounded in every pulpit in the world. When you read it, anticipate a fresh new examination of every area of your walk with God.
--Charles F. Stanley I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. --Galatians 2:20

Genres: Christian, Christian Living

192 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1994

About the author

Stephen Olford was born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) of missionary parents. His father, an Englishman, was converted through the ministry of R.A. Torrey. His mother, an American from Buffalo, New York, was associated with the evangelistic work of Sister Abigail.

Educated in Britain at St. Luke's College, Mildmay, and the Missionary Training Colony in London, his evangelistic crusades throughout Britain were interrupted in 1939 by the war, when he worked with the troops, and for seven years preached in a Forces Center in South Wales, reaching almost a thousand men a week. After the war, he returned to crusading on a much larger scale in major cities of the British Isles, Canada, and the United States, and was a frequent speaker at Keswick, in England. He held a six-year pastorate in Richmond, Surrey, before coming to New York.

In 1966 Wheaton College conferred upon Stephen Olford the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and Houghton College awarded him the Doctor of Letters degree.

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Stephen F. Olford is well known as pastor of New York's Calvary Baptist Church, radio and television preacher, conference and crusade speaker, as well as author of several books and pamphlets. As pastor of Calvary Baptist Church since 1959, Dr. Olford's leadership has led to an expanded radio ministry, "The Calvary Church Hour" being heard each week throughout the Caribbean, Great Britain, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. He has also pioneered a gospel program on television with the weekly "Encounter," which has a potential audience of some twenty-seven million in the New York area. His conference and crusade ministry has taken him around the world.

Reviews

[richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not I but Christ - Stephen Olford
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I read this book because I previously read a classic work of Stephen Olford on the Tabernacle and loved that book. Also the title of to this book was of great interest to me.

The book focuses on Galatians 2:20 and focuses on the problem with the church is that people who are of the faith neglect the fact that they are in Christ and therefore do not enter the fullness of the Spirit. People tend to strive in walking the Christian life rather than submitting to Christ in you and letting Him work through you. Stephen argues that we let Christ in few rooms within us and don't unlock the door to each area of our life especially the heart being the master control room that Christ stands outside knocking.

So in short, we do more or become more effective by less striving and more submition. No one can live the Christian life through self-effort, let Christ in to reign as Lord over all areas of life.

[Daniel Mann · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book!