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Slave of Christ: A New Testament Metaphor for Total Devotion to Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

The New Testament finds many ways to depict the relationship of Christians and their Lord. They are his disciples, sons, daughters, and friends. But it is perhaps too little recognized that they are also his slaves. Murray J. Harris sets out to uncover what it means to be a slave of Christ. He begins by assessing the nature of actual slavery in the Greco-Roman world and the New Testament’s...

what are the distinctive marks of his slaves? What is implied by doulos and its cognates when these terms refer to the followers of Jesus? Here we may appeal to our initial definition of a slave (whether a slave literally or figuratively): ‘A slave is someone whose person and service belong wholly to another.’ As Christ’s purchased possession, the Christian is wholly devoted to the person of the Master (Rom. 14:8).9 As Christ’s ‘movable property’, the Christian is totally available for the Master’s
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