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The Authentic Jesus: The Certainty of Christ in a Skeptical World is unavailable, but you can change that!

Presented as a sort of apologetic for the historicity and authenticity of Jesus, John Stott lays out the central relevance of history for the validity of the Christian faith. Examining difficult questions and the intertwined historical and theological reasons behind them, Stott makes a powerful case for an authentic Jesus in the face of a skeptical modern world.

Yet this call to the worldwide persuasive preaching of the gospel needs to be hedged round with safeguards. For Christian evangelism has often been abused and in consequence has fallen into disrepute. So let me list six things which the universal proclamation of the unique Christ does not mean. First, it does not mean confusing Christ with culture. Some Western missionaries have made the mistake of exporting with the gospel their whole Western way of life or have (often
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