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The Race Set Before Us: A Biblical Theology of Perseverance & Assurance is unavailable, but you can change that!

Discipline. Endurance. Perseverance. The New Testament often describes the Christian life as a marathon, a race set before us. But what exactly is the prize? Do all those completing the race share in it? And can the prize be lost? Tackling these and other vexing questions, Thomas Schreiner and Ardel Caneday offer in this book a serious, exegetical wrestling with the biblical understanding of...

interpretive tendencies that will help our readers understand the issues at stake with regard to how the biblical text holds warnings and promises together. Of course, there is a fifth view that we have not yet discussed: our own. We will briefly introduce it in the following section, then use the remainder of the book to develop it and demonstrate its biblical basis.55 In our earlier days of Christian understanding, we both sat under preaching
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