Everyone Belongs to God: Discovering the Hidden Christ, by Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
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How can Christians represent the love of Christ to their neighbors (let alone people in foreign countries) in an age when Christianity has earned a bad name from centuries of intolerance and cultural imperialism? Is it enough to love and serve them? Can you win their trust without becoming one of them? Can you be a missional Christian without a church?This provocative book, based on a recently uncovered collection of 100-year-old letters from a famous pastor to his nephew, a missionary in China, will upend pretty much everyone’s assumptions about what it means to give witness to Christ.Blumhardt challenges us to find something of God in every person, to befriend people and lead them to faith without expecting them to become like us, and to discover where Christ is already at work in the world. This is truly good news: No one on the planet is outside the love of God.At a time when Christian mission has too often been reduced to social work or proselytism, this book invites us to reclaim the heart of Jesus’ great commission, quietly but confidently incarnating the love of Christ and trusting him to do the rest.Gold Medal Winner, 2016 Illumination Book Award in ministry/mission, Independent Publishers
Everyone Belongs to God: Discovering the Hidden Christ, by Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt- Amazon Sales Rank: #821170 in Books
- Brand: Blumhardt, Christoph Friedrich/ Wilson-Hartgrove, Jonathan (FRW)/ Moore, Charles E. (COM)
- Published on: 2015-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.50" h x .50" w x 5.38" l, .40 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 163 pages
Review Everyone Belongs to God is one of the best books on mission and the kingdom of God that I have read in years. It's simple and clear enough to be understood by anyone. It's also the kind of book that I could give to my friends who are unbelievers. (Joshua T. Searle, Spurgeon’s College, London)This is ultimately a book about hope, about transformation and about a revolutionary way to live out the gospel of Christ in our daily lives… It’s a book that encourages, challenges and provokes. (Gill Robbins, Christians in Education)Thought-provoking…Blumhardt’s passionate pleas for Christians to remember that God loves everyone, not just Christians, remain relevant today. (Foreword Reviews)Our gospel has been too small. It is, indeed, too small a thing to think that the hope of the world rests in our ability to recruit others into our religion. Blumhardt calls us to embrace the revolutionary notion that everyone belongs to God. He is a prophet for our time.” (Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author, Strangers at My Door)
About the Author Pastor, politician, and author, Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (1842–1919) with his unconventional ideas about the kingdom of God, profoundly influenced a whole generation of European seekers. Among the luminaries he influenced were Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Emil Brunner, Oscar Cullman, and Karl Barth. Yet his vision and witness are still waiting to be discovered by most Americans, few of whom have had access to his works. He carried forward the work of his father, Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805–1880), who is regarded by many as the key figure of German pietism.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Considering the title of the book, its content will take you by surprise (in a good way) By Eric Atcheson “Your being a pastor will gradually become more and more irrelevant.”Somebody, please, give me a hug. I don’t know if I can handle this.And yet, words like these are exactly what I need. Maybe even more so than the hug. Sorry.With this and many other such broadsides, the 19th and 20th century German pastor Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt demands that you question exactly what your role should be in bringing about the kingdom of God—and how closely you are adhering to that ideal—in the new book Everyone Belongs to God: Discovering the Hidden Christ, which should hit the shelves from Plough Publishing in a month or so (the e-book for your Kindle costs eight bucks on Amazon, the paperback costs ten).Because this book is curated from a series of letters from Blumhardt to his missionary son-in-law (at times, it has the feel of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, which isn’t a bad thing), there is a familial, almost paternal, bond that comes through in the book’s words, and as such, Blumhardt comes across far less as a raging, finger-pointing, pulpit-pounding preacher and far more as the conscience in your ear that refuses to back down from exhorting you to do what is best, not merely what is good. And because this is a collection of letters rather than, say, a collection of lectures, Blumhardt’s prose is both readable and accessible, even as the ideas he tries to convey are of the highest and loftiest of orders.Blumhardt shines brightest in his continued reminders to his son-in-law to respect people of other faiths and cultures as people whom God is also still working through, while balancing that with his firm belief that a relationship with God is most clear through Jesus Christ. At a time when we make it altogether too tempting to see other religions as enemies, with their violent extremists like ISIS and Boko Haram, Blumhardt offers us an example of great respect for cultures and religions outside of Western European tradition in a way that really is because of, rather than in spite of, his passion for Jesus’s message.In this way, he says, and, indeed, the title of this collection says, everyone belongs to God, whether you or I like it or not.But far be it for any reader to expect anything in the way of the fuzzy-wuzzy we’re-all-special-snowflakes/unicorns sentiment that might follow up a statement like “everyone belongs to God.” In case I have not made it abundantly clear enough, Blumhardt sees that singular truth not as a feel-good placebo, but as a truly radical mindset that is meant to shake and quake everything in our comfortable, me-first bubbles that somehow pass as worldviews these days.If you’re terrified of having that bubble pierced by such heartfelt truths about the nature of God’s kingdom, stay far, far away from this book.Otherwise, pick it up. You’ll be glad you did.(FTR, my copy of Everyone Belongs to God came at no charge from the publisher; however, all opinions expressed here are entirely my own.)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A challenging read to hear the Gospel fresh! By Julius L McCarter Christoph Blumhardt's Everyone Belongs to God: Discovering the Hidden Christ is an original book in an age that needs to hear this pastor's message. To be honest, it's a book that's hard to characterize, just like Blumhardt himself, because this book depicts a Kingdom that's bigger than anything we might dare or imagine.Readers won't find a particular theology here, because Blumhardt is a prophet who talks less about God and more speaking on behalf of the God we know in Jesus Christ. And his message is this: The Risen Christ draws all of humanity to himself. Regardless of the distinctives we use to distinguish ourselves over-against others, Jesus breaks down those walls. To confess the Risen Christ, Blumhardt insists, is to proclaim the good news to all the world. Distinctions are obliterated. That's why the book begins with a quote on the flyleaf from Paul: "Here, there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and in all" (Colossians 3.11).Make no doubt about it, Everyone Belongs to God is a prophetic book. Though the text of the book is a collection of essays and sermons from over a century ago, this book's message is as new as today's newspaper. In a world where we Christians attempt to separate ourselves in Christian enclaves, Blumhardt insists that God is at work in Jesus Christ in and through the Church, but even sometimes beyond it. Blumhardt challenges us -- as good prophets challenge God's people -- to see the world as God sees the world. Friendship and forgiveness name that process of seeing -- even when such friendship and forgiveness is with our enemies. That's because the Risen Christ is already at work in the world -- to those who have those eyes to see.The Church's work isn't simply caring or evangelism. The Church's work is the continued work of Jesus Christ in the world, by incarnating the Risen One in love. And trusting that the Risen One will accomplish far more for the world than we might, in our own puny visions, dare to dream of imagine.So ultimately, Everyone Belongs to God is a challenge to read. Because in the reading of it, the scales fell from my own eyes, in order to see the world as God in Jesus Christ sees the world.___________________I received a free copy of this book from Plough Publishing in exchange for my honest review here.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. a very good read By J. Robert Ewbank This book of collected letters by Blumhardt forms an inspiring read. It is a constant reminder that justs because one thinks of themselves as Christian they are no better than the next person. God is bigger than denominations, sects and other divisions of man. God is so big that everyone belongs to him and for whom he sent His Son into the world.Written nearly a century ago, the message of this book is timeless and should be read by everyone who thinks that they have a mission of talking or working with others for God.J. Robert Ewbank author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the Isms" "Wesley's Wars" and "To Whom It May Concern"
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