The Church in Babylon: Heeding the Call to Be a Light in the Darkness
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
How do we live faithfully in a country becoming more and more hostile to our faith in Christ?
Like the Israelites in Babylon, we must find a way to maintain our faith in the midst of a pagan culture. But that requires we answer two crucial questions: How did we get here? How do we prepare for the dark and difficult days ahead?
In The Church in Babylon Study Guide, Dr. Lutzer answers both of these questions. He will walk you through the many parallels between the church in America and God’s people in Babylon, and embolden you to be a gospel witness. As you work through the book, you’ll be encouraged not to compromise your faith even when under constant pressure from all corners of society. And more than all this you will have a fresh encounter with Jesus Christ, as you delve into the biblical role of those in exile.
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- Answers two crucial questions about living faithfully in a hostile culture
- Walks you through the many parallels between the church in America and God’s people in Babylon
- Encourages you not to compromise your faith even when under constant pressure
- Foreword
- Heeding the Call, From My Heart to Yours
- 1. Welcome to Babylon: We Have Arrived, and We Are Here to Stay
- 2. A Light to the City, a Heart for God: Finding God in Enemy Territory
- 3. Conflicts of Conscience: Keeping the Faith in a Hostile Work Environment
- 4. When the State Becomes God: Standing Strong While Others Bow
- 5. The Church, Technology, and Purity: The Courage to Confront a Deadly Enemy
- 6. Transgenderism, Sexuality, and the Church: Calling Out the Lies of the Culture
- 7. Islam, Immigration, and the Church: Balancing Compassion and Security
- 8. Five False Gospels within the Evangelical Church: Defending the Faith Once Delivered to the Saints
- 9. Taking the Cross into the World: Shamelessly Sharing the One Message That Can Save Us
- 10. Jesus at the Church Door: Prayerless Pulpits, Satisfied Saints, and Spiritual Blindness
- 11. The Church That Will Survive in Babylon: Prevailing in a Hostile Culture
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- More from the Publisher
Few pastors combine prophetic boldness, biblical fidelity, and cultural insight as well as Erwin Lutzer. As with his other books, not only did I read and enjoy it, I filed it at arm’s length for frequent use as a teaching resource.
—J. D. Greear, The Summit Church
This book sheds a hopeful light on the cultural battles we must encounter today. Pastor Lutzer has been able to combine fidelity to the Scriptures along with compassion as he speaks about issues such as sexuality, the pressure the church faces in a pagan culture, and the danger of losing the gospel. He ends by showing that the ancient church of Laodicea has a message for us and that we must invite Jesus back into our churches. This book is clear, convicting, and points the way by which the witness of our churches can be revitalized
—Tony Evans, Senior Pastor, Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, President, The Urban Alternative
The church was founded by Jesus in the contrary culture of the first century. In The Church in Babylon, Erwin Lutzer provides a clarion call for the church to make a midcourse correction in the contrary culture of the twenty-first century. This book astutely exposes the dangerous winds blowing against the Christian faith, and effectively resets the sails toward a godly and biblically informed conviction for the individual Christian and the church alike to survive and thrive in an ungodly world.
—Mark L. Bailey, President and Sr. Professor of Bible Exposition, Dallas Theological Seminary