All the Saints Adore Thee: Insight from Christian Classics

by Bruce L. Shelley

If the unchurched in the United States ever formed their own country, it would be the world’s eleventh most populous nation. Reformission is a call to reform a flawed view of missions―as something we only do in foreign lands―to focus on the urgent needs in our own neighborhoods, filled with diverse Americans who desperately need the Gospel of Jesus and life in his Church. It calls for a movement of missionaries who seek the lost across the street, as well as across the globe.   Many evangelical churches today are either hostile to the unbelieving world in which they live, or so friendly with the surrounding culture that they have lost the unique claims of the gospel that alone have the power to change people.  This basic primer on the interface between gospel and culture by #1 New York Times bestselling author and pastor Mark Driscoll will help you to carefully navigate between the twin pitfalls of syncretism (being so culturally irrelevant that you lose your message) and sectarianism (being so culturally irrelevant that you lose your mission).   If you’re more convinced today than ever that this crazy, sin-sick world needs a Savior, Reformission will show you how to love the Lord through the unchanging gospel, and love your neighbor in our ever-changing culture.

284 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1994

About the author

Dr. Bruce Shelley was the long-time professor of church history and historical theology at Denver Seminary. He joined the faculty in 1957.

He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and received a theological degree from Fuller Seminary. He also attended Columbia Bible College.

Dr. Shelley wrote or edited over twenty books, including Church History in Plain Language, All the Saints Adore Thee, The Gospel and the American Dream, Theology of Ordinary People, and The Consumer Church. He served on the editorial advisory board of Christian History and published numerous articles for magazines and encyclopedias. He served as consulting editor for InterVarsity’s Dictionary of Christianity in America. He was a corresponding editor of Christianity Today and published articles in Encyclopedia Americana, Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, and New International Dictionary of the Christian Church.

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Reviews

[Bethany Havener · Rating 5 out of 5]

This anthology of spiritual authors throughout church history took me a year to get through, but was so worth it! I really appreciated the scope and understanding that it gave me to hear from Christians from early church time all the way through to more recent days. Great devotional reading.

[Stacy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This anthology has fifty-two chapters, each focusing on a different Christian man or woman whose writings have touched many. Among these are Paul of Tarsus, C. S. Lewis, Teresa of Avila, John Bunyan, Francis of Assisi, and Hannah Whitall Smith. There is background given on the person before their selection as well as historical background before each time period.

[Kari McDowell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lost this book for awhile and my husband found it under the couch. 😅 This was tremendously encouraging and whetted my appetite for other books I would like to read one day.