Notes, Chapter 7

  1. T. W. Manson, The Sayings of Jesus (London: SCM Press, 1949), p.280.

  2. John Piper, Love Your Enemies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979). On pages 163-65 I list and discuss these some forty instances.

  3. This does not contradict the biblical doctrine of the eternal security of God's chosen people who are truly born again, a doctrine firmly established by Romans 8:30. But it does imply there is a change of heart if we have been born of God; and this includes evidences in the way we use our money. Jesus warned repeatedly of the false confidence that bears no fruit and will forfeit life in the end (Matthew 7:15-27,13:47-50,22: 11-14).

  4. James Stewart, Heralds of God (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House,1972), p. 97.

  5. Ralph Winter, "Reconsecration to a Wartime, not a Peacetime, Lifestyle," in Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, R. Winter, S. Hawthorne, eds. (Pasadena: William Carey Library,1981), p.814.

  6. Winter, "Reconsecration," p. 815.