A Change of Allegiance

Fred J. Morgan

Many, as I,  are currently in or has changed to: a "Third Way" Faith. Many others also deal with the idea of how far should a Christian become part of this world in accordance with Jesus' remarks on the world.

In the 70's and 80's I was in the U.S. Army and I am now a DAV. being then a middle of the road, every sunday OR SO, Baptist. Even then, I asked these questions and always rationalized them. But, what would have happend if I had changed my faith to what it is now... back then? This is a story of such a change, and a very good read.

I would suggest possibly reading "Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up" the book that promoted the change. Both are available through scrollpublishing.com [:)]

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A Change of Allegiance:

Dean Taylor and his wife Tania were both in the U. S. Army when they realized that, as committed Christians, they had to come to grip with these question in a new and sincere quest for truth. They were determined to follow Jesus Christ under the banner of “no com-promise. As they began to search the Scriptures and church history, they came to the star-tling discovery that the Christian Church originally was uniformly opposed to Christians going to war or joining the military.

In A Change of Allegiance, Taylor takes the reader on a moving journey through the Scriptures, Christian history, and his own life’s story—demonstrating the incompatibility of Christianity and war. Ultimately, Taylor challenges his readers to consider where their allegiance really lies.

Rich DeRuiter

Fred, these forums are for talking about Logos software. Logos and the forum community strongly discourage theological discussions, including discussions about the issues you bring up here.

If you want to make a recommendation to Logos, this is the forum for that. But your post reads like a recommendation to the forum community to get a book not in Logos, but sold by a another publisher.

I would welcome a discussion about the relationship between the Christian and the world and a theological discussion about pacifism, but this is not the place for it.

However, the discussion reminds me that I would love to see H.Richard Niebuhr's classic which deals with the relation of the Christian to the world: Christ and Culture.

EDIT: Fred, I notice that you made several recommendations in the Suggestions forum today. Maybe that was your intention here too, though you didn't make it obvious. Preferring to err on the side of grace, let me only suggest that you make that recommendation to Logos more obvious in this thread.