A Better Freedom

Finding Life as Slaves of Christ

By Michael Card

(paperback)

Product Details

Line: IVP Books
Length: 168 pages
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: September 2009

ISBN-10: 0-8308-3714-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-3714-4
IVP Order Code: 3714

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Discipleship

I. Introduction: Beginning a Journey
1. "My Master"
2. A Better Freedom
3. One Word, Three Worlds

Part II: Becoming Slaves of Christ
4. "I, Paul, a Slave of Christ"
5. My Son, Onesimus
6. Eye-Slaves and People-Pleasers
7. Your Father's Name
8. "Don't Worry About It"
9. Freed From and Freed To

Part III. Encountering Christ the Slave
10. Christ the Slave
11. Slaves Who Waited for the Way
12. Parables of Slavery
13. The Servant Savior
14. The Death of a Slave
15. Breakfast With a Wounded Slave
16. "Capture Me, for I Am Fleeing"
Epilogue: Freedom
Coda by Sara Groves

Appendix A: Comparison of the Three Worlds of Slavery
Appendix B: A Lexicon of Slavery
Appendix C: A Letter Written on Behalf of a Runaway Slave
Appendix D: A List of Possible Slave Names in the New Testament
Appendix E: The Facts of Modern Slavery
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author