The Trouble with the Truth: Balancing Truth and Grace

The Trouble with the Truth: Balancing Truth and Grace

by Rob Renfroe
The Trouble with the Truth: Balancing Truth and Grace

The Trouble with the Truth: Balancing Truth and Grace

by Rob Renfroe

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Overview

There’s a lot of talk today about “culture wars,” but these external conflicts are only a symptom of a deeper problem: there is trouble with the truth. Beneath our differences about the values that should define our culture is a real disagreement about what is true. Those who hold to the traditional beliefs of the Christian faith find themselves at odds with a culture that no longer believes there are universal spiritual or moral truths that apply to everyone. And they grieve that the confusion about what is true is just as strong in the church. The Trouble with the Truth explores the truth—why it’s in trouble, what the culture tells us about it, and why the church is so confused about it. In an engaging and compelling style, Rob Renfroe reminds us that the Christian life requires commitment to both truth and grace. Like a tightrope walker with a balance bar, we must learn to balance compassion for people and passion for truth, combining them in equal measure just as Jesus did. Readers will examine the essentials about truth and grace, understand the differences between a cultural worldview and a scriptural worldview, and discover how to be instruments of real influence and transformation in our time by following Jesus’s example. A DVD featuring six interviews with the author and a full leader guide are available for group study.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781426786198
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 05/27/2014
Series: Trouble with the Truth Series
Pages: 144
Sales rank: 835,645
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Rob Renfroe is Pastor of Discipleship at The Woodlands UMC in Houston, Texas, leader of the popular men's Bible study Quest, attended by over 500 men, and the author of The Trouble with the Truth and A Way Through the Wilderness. He also is President of Good News—a national organization committed to the doctrinal integrity and spiritual renewal of The United Methodist Church. He and his wife, Peggy, are the parents of two adult sons.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

1 Full of Grace and Truth 13

2 Why Grace Is Essential and Truth Matters 27

3 Why Our Culture Values Compassion Over Truth: Understanding Three Worldviews 61

4 Comparing the Cultural Worldview to a Scriptural Worldview 85

5 The New Absolutes 101

6 What Does Love Require? 127

Notes 141

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