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Gene Edwards challenges one of the most entrenched traditions in modern Christianity: the role of the professional pastor. Drawing from both Scripture and church history, Edwards argues that the contemporary pastoral office is not only unscriptural but also spiritually debilitating, for pastors and congregations alike. Through personal anecdotes, historical insight, and biblical analysis, he reveals how the institutional pastorate emerged not from the early church but from post-apostolic traditions, particularly Roman Catholic practices.

The reason for this book: to bring to us a totally new beginning for the body of Christ. Gene Edwards challenges the long-held evangelical ideal of restoring a so-called "New Testament church" by reconstructing its biblical elements. Edwards argues that the early churches described in the New Testament were not institutional models to replicate but organic, living expressions of Christ—unique, Spirit-led communities that emerged naturally within their cultural contexts.

The author grew up in a working class family, living at the bottom rung of poverty. He began working in the Texas oil fields at age fourteen. Here is a beautiful story of encouragement to everyone who works for a living, whether it be in the home or in the workplace. God the Father could have had his Son live in any class of society, but He chose to immerse him in the daily grind of the working class. Your Lord was a day laborer. Here is a story which opens a window into the heart of God and the high esteem in which he holds those who labor — from the housewife to the steeplejack.

Sharing Christ with others was a natural part of life for Gene Edwards. He was comfortable introducing a person to Christ and then guiding him or her through committing their life to Him and receiving Him into their inmost being. Gene wrote this little book not long before his death in December of 2022. SeedSowers now brings it to you.

You may have noticed that much of today's ministry comes neatly packaged along with a slick marketing strategy. The offer of health, wealth, and success in all you do is a pleasant detour from the actual message of the Lord Jesus. Perhaps you never really considered that even though salvation is the free gift of God, transformation to spiritual maturity is not a gift at all. It's a process. The cross of Calvary was God's appointment for his son. The Cross in Your Path is the Son's appointment for You. This book is concerned with that second cross, the one you are to take up and carry.

It happened 1800 years ago. The chaotic arrangement was accepted and later became the only way to arrange Paul's letters. As a result, we cannot know what the New Testament is saying. We have never seen the church of Century One. We do not know what happened in the first Christian century. We have no model of the first-century from which to work.

Few pieces of Christian literature ever address the subject if division in the body of Christ. Fewer still address the problem of how a Christian should conduct himself in such times and how to survive the aftermath.

This book is for those believers, be they Catholic, Protestant, Conservatives, Fundamentalists, or Pentecostal/Charismatics who want to utterly abandon it all, from top to bottom, and start over in a way that is a revolutionary, radical departure from all present-day church practices.

The cross, suffering, transformation, and God's ultimate purpose are the issues that unfold in this unique book by Gene Edwards. Though written for the new believer, it speaks with a depth and newness that will arrest even the most mature believer. A story that traverses time, space and eternity to deliver its beautiful, moving and profound message, while pioneering a new style of exceptional Christian literature.

Is there more to leading a Christian life than following a list of rules? Have we overlooked the main point? Does your Christian life need to be revolutionized? How did Jesus Christ live by the spirit? What practical steps can we take today? If you want practical steps on how to know Christ in a fresh, new way...then The Secret to the Christian Life is for you.

Read the story of Christ's birth from a while new vantage point...from the viewpoint of Heaven. The Birth is the third in the series The Chronicles of Heaven written by beloved storyteller Gene Edwards. The Birth has become the most popular rendering of the Bethlehem story. The drama begins in the eternals. Just before the birth of John the Baptist, the skies had turned to brass.

If you find yourself unsettled with Christianity as usual... If you find yourself longing for a deeper experience of the Christian life... Then Living by the Highest Life, the first volume of an Introduction to the Deeper Christian Life, is for you.

The Return is an unparalleled rendition of Christ's return. So awesome in its portrayal that no painting, no writing, no leap of the imagination compares with this supernal presentation of Gene Edwards's portrait of Christ's coming. Until now, all books about Christ's return have ended with His coming. Never before has any author ventured into the mysteries of what happens after the Lord returns to heaven with the redeemed. The greatest glory begins there.

Edwards, the master storyteller, lifts the resurrection into the realm of the invisibles and makes you a visitor into resurrection's power to end the old creation itself. Resurrection brings forth heavenly creation out of the womb of an empty tomb. No view of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ has ever equaled the astounding dialouge in the The Triumph. Never has the crucifixion...never has the resurrection...of Christ been so gloriously told.

Gene Edwards takes you on a journey into God to explore the invisibles. You will discover that the center of God is Christ...at a time before Christ created. Be there with Him before He created. You will discover there is much which Christ did before He created. Watch as He passes farther into the eternals. Here is Christ before angels, Christ even before nothingness, and Christ the One who is all.

Edwards leads the call to vanquish the inequality of women in the kingdom of God. His weapons of revelation? History, the Greek language, and his own witness of women in churches who are free. Dare to discover what happens in the body of Christ when all members function. This book brings to light the mindset that has held both women and men prisoner of misconceptions through the centuries. Listening to The Christian Woman Set Free liberates the listener of any doubt regarding a woman's place in the kingdom of God.