Puritan Treasures for Today - Holy Helps for a Godly Life
Book Description
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.
Puritan Treasures for Today Series: As people seek a more satisfying and authentic faith, interest in the Puritans continues to grow. This series presents Puritan books that are carefully edited with modern audiences in mind—difficult phrases are smoothed out while the authors' meaning is maintained. These books have been thoughtfully selected to provide some of the best counsel on important subjects that people continue to wrestle with today.
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
Richard Rogers (1551-1618) was an English Puritan minister in Wethersfield who advocated presbyterian church government and encouraged practical piety.
Endorsements
"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
Additional Information
Cover: Softcover
Number of Pages: 182
Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books
Publication Date: 2018