Puritan Treasures for Today - Holy Helps for a Godly Life

What good is a church community if it lacks loving fellowship?

In Rules for Walking in Fellowship, John Owen supplies struggling congregations with biblical guidelines for making church life in the present a foretaste of heavenly fellowship to come. He discusses both the responsibilities congregations have toward pastors as well as the duties members have toward one another. Together, Owen presents twenty-four rules for fostering gospel fellowship, supporting them with numerous proof texts, brief explanations, and words of motivation to keep them. His simple approach makes this book ideal for personal or small group study. Here, then, is a collection of indispensable biblical rules that will challenge Christians in any given congregation, of whatever denomination-a little gem that is at the same time doctrinal, practical, and ecumenical.

Series Description: Interest in the Puritans continues to grow, but many people find reading these giants of the faith a bit unnerving. This series seeks to overcome that barrier by presenting Puritan books that are convenient in size and unintimidating in length. Each book is carefully edited with modern readers in mind, smoothing out difficult language of a bygone era while retaining the meaning of the original authors. Books for the series are thoughtfully selected to provide some of the best counsel on important subjects that people continue to wrestle with today.

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Table of Contents:
PART 1: Rules for walking in fellowship, with reference to the pastor or minister who watches over your souls
  1. Attending to the Ordinances Dispensed by Your Pastor
  2. Following Your Pastor's Example
  3. Praying for Your Pastor
  4. Esteeming Your Pastor
  5. Paying Your Pastor's Salary
  6. Standing by Your Pastor in His Trials
  7. Gathering to Worship when Summoned
PART 2: Rules to be observed by those who walk in fellowship, to remind them of their mutual duties toward one another
  8. Loving One Another
  9. Praying for the Church
  10. Taking a Stand for the Church
  11. Preserving Unity
  12. Separating from the World
  13. Engaging in Spiritual Conversation
  14. Bearing with One Another's Faults
  15. Bearing One Another's Burdens
  16. Helping the Poor
  17. Being Wary of Those Who Divide the Church
  18. Sharing the Church's Lot, No Matter What
  19. Associating with the Lowly
  20. Praying for the Afflicted
  21. Keeping Each Other Accountable
  22. Being Holy

Author:

"Reformation Heritage Books has done the church a great service by making Richard Rogers's classic available again, and editor Brian Hedges has made it much more accessible by his faithful modernization of the language when needed. The counsel in this book is helpful to Christians young and old-whether new in the faith or spiritually mature. It demonstrates not only Rogers's gift for teaching the Bible clearly but also his pastoral concern to provide practical guidance for daily Christian living. What he said in Holy Helps to a Godly Life is as valuable today as it was when it first appeared in 1603. Now, thanks to RHB and Brian Hedges, the godly Richard Rogers, 'being dead still speaks' (Heb. 11:4)."
--Donald S. Whitney, professor of biblical spirituality and associate dean at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, and author of Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life

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