The Work of Christ

A rising trend in churches are favoring an undogmatic Christianity which is without apostolic or evangelical substance, cultivating a certain emulsion of sympathetic mysticism, intuitional belief, and benevolent action. Among lay minds of a devout and social but impatiently practical habit, this is likely to spread, particularly among those whose public interests get the upper hand of ethical and historical insight and denude their religion of most of the reflection it demands. A healthy church cannot survive with these principles. It is upon faith alone, given by the cross alone, that a church can live—upon a positive New Testament Gospel. Of that Gospel the church is the trustee. The work of Christ, rightly understood, is the final spiritual condition of all the work we may aspire to do in converting society to the kingdom of God. In seven lectures, Forsyth argues for the steadfastness of the church, and for the re-focus of its teachings to be once again Christ centered.