Há um assunto diante de seus olhos de grande importância. Refiro-me ao assunto do zelo religioso. É um assunto, como muitos outros na religião, tristemente incompreendido. Muitos teriam vergonha de serem considerados “zelosos”. Muitos estão prontos para dizer de pessoas zelosas o que Festo disse de “Estás louco! As muitas letras te fazem delirar”.
Mas esse é um assunto necessário para a Igreja de Cristo.
Esse pequeno livro de J.C. Ryle é dividido da seguinte IntroduçãoO Que é o Zelo na Religião?Quando um homem é verdadeiramente zeloso na religião?Por que é Bom para um Homem ser Zeloso?AplicaçãoQuem foi J.C. Ryle?Garanta Já o Seu!
(John Charles Ryle) Ryle started his ministry as curate at the Chapel of Ease in Exbury, Hampshire, moving on to become rector of St Thomas's, Winchester in 1843 and then rector of Helmingham, Suffolk the following year. While at Helmingham he married and was widowed twice. He began publishing popular tracts, and Matthew, Mark and Luke of his series of Expository Thoughts on the Gospels were published in successive years (1856-1858). His final parish was Stradbroke, also in Suffolk, where he moved in 1861, and it was as vicar of All Saints that he became known nationally for his straightforward preaching and firm defence of evangelical principles. He wrote several well-known and still-in-print books, often addressing issues of contemporary relevance for the Church from a biblical standpoint. He completed his Expository Thoughts on the Gospels while at Stradbroke, with his work on the Gospel of John (1869). His third marriage, to Henrietta Amelia Clowes in 1861, lasted until her death in 1889.