Friendship with the Friend of Sinners: The Remarkable Possibility of Closeness with Christ mgr_9780830838264 or you may love your

or you may love your church and desire to commit to it more deeply and serve it more fully

Through critical exegesis of the text

doctrine and worship of the triune God

this anthology collects diverse voices in the church as it seeks to assess the convictions and struggles of this small manifestation of the visible church

" Parkison pushes fiercely in the opposite direction

Friendship with the Friend of Sinners: The Remarkable Possibility of Closeness with Christ mgr_9780830838264 or you may love yourThe Bible calls Jesus the friend of sinners, but it's hard to imagine what friendship with Jesus really looks like. We so often don't even know how to do friendship with the people around us, despite all the options we have to connect. So how are we supposed to feel that close to a holy, perfect, and invisible God? How do we see Jesus as the real person he is? And how do we experience true friendship with him when we struggle to maintain true