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World Missions: Total Spiritual Warfare
Formerly Titled World Missions: Total War
Newly Republished by Kingsley Press
Someone has said that the task of the preacher is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. The messages found in this book most definitely fall into the latter category. In these pages the author sounds a bugle call to Christian soldiers-a call "not to a holiday, but to a campaign. Our tent is pitched not in paradise, but on the field of battle.... The primary and only adequate figure of Christian service is that of the military conflict.... World missions under Christ's captaincy means war, total war, total mobilization for total conflict."
This book was written and published toward the end of L. E. Maxwell's long and fruitful ministry, thus preserving for us his seasoned convictions on two of the primary emphases of his life work: his view of the Christian life as a warfare and the supreme importance of world missions. As co-founder and principal of Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills, Alberta, Canada, Maxwell's lifelong calling was to train disciplined soldiers for the mission fields of the world-a calling he fulfilled with steadfast faithfulness and astonishing success, thus qualifying him to speak with authority and passion.
"The content of this book is meant to furnish pastors and Christian workers with biblical material to stir God's people out of their evangelical smugness," Maxwell wrote. "Do we not all need to be stabbed wide awake?"
Newly Republished by Kingsley Press
Someone has said that the task of the preacher is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. The messages found in this book most definitely fall into the latter category. In these pages the author sounds a bugle call to Christian soldiers-a call "not to a holiday, but to a campaign. Our tent is pitched not in paradise, but on the field of battle.... The primary and only adequate figure of Christian service is that of the military conflict.... World missions under Christ's captaincy means war, total war, total mobilization for total conflict."
This book was written and published toward the end of L. E. Maxwell's long and fruitful ministry, thus preserving for us his seasoned convictions on two of the primary emphases of his life work: his view of the Christian life as a warfare and the supreme importance of world missions. As co-founder and principal of Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills, Alberta, Canada, Maxwell's lifelong calling was to train disciplined soldiers for the mission fields of the world-a calling he fulfilled with steadfast faithfulness and astonishing success, thus qualifying him to speak with authority and passion.
"The content of this book is meant to furnish pastors and Christian workers with biblical material to stir God's people out of their evangelical smugness," Maxwell wrote. "Do we not all need to be stabbed wide awake?"
168 pages, Paperback
First published August 14, 2013
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September 17, 2020
A must read for every Christian
What a powerful little book! It challenged my Christian life from cover to cover. Many Christians do not care much for the mission Christ left us to accomplish, what a shame! This book will help stir your heart up about what you really should be stirred up about - world evangelism!
What a powerful little book! It challenged my Christian life from cover to cover. Many Christians do not care much for the mission Christ left us to accomplish, what a shame! This book will help stir your heart up about what you really should be stirred up about - world evangelism!
August 29, 2020
- A lot of very powerful, convicting stuff.
- Some naïveté regarding 21st century missions - written at the end of the colonial era
- Obviously written from an evangelical perspective (reminds me a lot of Perspectives in the World Christian Movement class)
- Some naïveté regarding 21st century missions - written at the end of the colonial era
- Obviously written from an evangelical perspective (reminds me a lot of Perspectives in the World Christian Movement class)
June 23, 2014
Very good missions oriented work.
This is a great book. Not for the squeamish, weak-kneed, limp-wristed, easily-offended goats in the flock. If you are a sheep, who hears the Master's voice, this book will appeal to you.
I really appreciate these old preachers of righteousness. No milky drool like the modern, effeminate purveyors of self-help, self-centered, self-absorbed garbage, but full of meat and purpose and service and conviction. If you haven't read this book, you should!
This is a great book. Not for the squeamish, weak-kneed, limp-wristed, easily-offended goats in the flock. If you are a sheep, who hears the Master's voice, this book will appeal to you.
I really appreciate these old preachers of righteousness. No milky drool like the modern, effeminate purveyors of self-help, self-centered, self-absorbed garbage, but full of meat and purpose and service and conviction. If you haven't read this book, you should!
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