He vowed to preface every attitude and action of his own life with the question: What would Jesus do in this situation if He were me? Electrifying his congregation with the same challenge, people responded with agreement to try it for one year.

Henry Maxwell, respected pastor of the First Church of Raymond, struggled with the idea that Christian discipleship demanded more than mental assent. It is the soul-stirring novel of men and women torn between their faith and the demands, compulsions, and temptations of life. In His Steps resides in the public domain, but this recording is copyrighted in 2022 by Truce Media LLC.The penetrating and provocative question 'What would Jesus do?' in all of life's complex situations, is the central theme of this book. Social movements like the pure foods movement, temperance, suffrage, anti-gambling.The overall positive view of human progress.Is this book evangelistic? If so, how is the gospel presented? If not, what does this book leave out?.

The Holiness movement and those who object to it.The genesis of financial woes in this book is sometimes economic crisis (the late 1800s was full of panics and recessions) and sometimes sin based.What would happen if we dared to ask “What Would Jesus Do?” Things to track as you listen: Finally, I think we need to hear this story in our modern context. It also represents the Social Gospel and a slice of the Holiness movement quite well. I think this book offers a great window into the era in which it was created (the late 1800s). I’m presenting this original audio recording for many reasons. Christian fundamentalists generally think that world history trends downward. It said that the world could get better and better and then Jesus would return. For one thing, it had a positive view of human progress. It was a movement led by people like Walter Rauschenbusch that emphasized the socially conscious aspects of Christianity, while simultaneously downplaying evangelism.Ĭhristian fundamentalists did not like the Social Gospel. Another form of liberal theology was the “Social Gospel”. It’s worth noting that fundamentalism was a reaction to liberal theology, especially modernism.

We’ve been running through the history of Christian fundamentalism this season. It is also one of the top-selling Christian books of all time. In His Steps by Charles Sheldon is a classic of Christian fiction.

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