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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...

been drawn to this topic in a variety of other ways. In October 1987, at the annual Global Ministries Institute at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, our speaker was Dr Josef Tson, a Romanian pastor who had been arrested and imprisoned in 1974 and 1977, then exiled in 1981. He forcefully expressed his preference to be introduced simply as ‘a slave of Jesus Christ’. ‘There aren’t many people’, he observed, ‘who are willing to introduce me as a slave. They substitute the word “servant” for “slave”.
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