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Doing God’s Business God’s Way: A Biblical Theology of Ministry is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book calls all genuine disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ, both vocational ministers and lay people, to serve our Savior by carrying out His marching orders His way. This demands that the doctrines of man, sin, salvation, the Word, and the Spirit have full sway in all that we do in the name of Christ. Whatever we are engaged in, whether witnessing to the lost or carrying out our various...

which focuses on the believer’s walk [i.e. life-style and conduct]. Notice how this mega-topic is introduced in Ephesians 4:1 and then picked up and fully expanded in 4:17ff. Consequently, the interrelationship of ‘being’ and ‘doing’ found in Ephesians 4:17–19 sets the stage for the many ethical exhortations contained in the remainder of this epistle. Technically, the interrelationship that Paul highlights is more specifically one of ‘thinking’ and ‘doing.’ Not only is ‘as a man is, so he does’ a
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