New Free E-Book Gets Back To Basics

By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries


CARSON, CA (ANS) -- Have you ever asked yourself: "What are the most profitable Bible truths that I can teach my people?" The Bible warns us against many unprofitable forms of teaching e.g. vain philosophy, speculations, myths and legends, disputes and wrangling over words, and ear-tickling sensationalism.

John Edmiston with his wife Minda

By contrast the Scriptures also highly recommend some other topics for us to preach on, such as focusing on Christ and Him crucified, matters concerning salvation, prayer, disciplined Christian living, the learning of wisdom in life, the discerning of good and evil and of course, loving one another.
In fact loving one another is so very important that Jesus calls it His own commandment (John 13:34,35). However everywhere we look we see love getting left behind in priority. Christians are full of Bible trivia knowledge but are also often lonely, unloved and confused. 1 Corinthians 8:1 explains this telling us that "Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up".

If we are to build up our people we must constantly teach them to love one another with the love of God! That way they will truly become the "body of Christ" that edifies itself in love (Ephesians 4:11-16).
John Edmiston has written a new free ebook called The Importance of Lovein order to help pastors, teachers and growing Christians learn about agape love. The Importance of Love consists of 30 Bible studies, each about 3 pages long, that go into depth about some aspect of obeying Jesus' command to: "Love one another as I have loved you". Each study takes about 15 miniutes to read and reflect on. Thus the book can easily be incorporated into a daily devotional routine where one chapter is read each day, for 30 days.

The Importance of Love is solidly biblical and will help Christians to grasp both the theology and practice of living a Spirit-filled life of love. Many Christians "get burned" when they first attempt to love others and this book shows how to be wise and discerning while also being obedient to Jesus' commands. Topics include why love is a key ingedient to the gospel, how love is the sign of a true Christian disciple, what to do with difficult people who resist our attempts to love them, the relationship between love, mercy and forgiveness of debts, and many others.
John Edmiston tells the ASSIST News Service (www.assistnews.net )that he hopes that The Importance of Love will be used for personal bible study and in home groups, cell groups and as part of the Christian education program in churches. He wants to see Christians edifying each other and getting "back to basics" so that they have a sound and well-founded faith in the gospel.

Edmiston says that: "The Christian life is not just about what we know, it is also about who we are and what we do with our lives and about how we treat others in a Christ-like way. Loving one another is central to this and deserves to be a high priority in the Christian life."

The Importance of Love may be downloaded for free from John Edmiston's website and the URL is:http://www.globalchristians.org/eternity/love/ - and John's book may be freely used for non-profit ministry purposes. (For instance you can print it out, duplicate it, email it to others, use it in your church and so on)
John Edmiston is an Australian missionary who is the CEO of Cybermissions, the pastor of Eternity Christian Fellowship and the author of Biblical EQ: A Christian Handbook For Emotional Transformation. These ministries focus on Bible training, especially of national pastors. John and his wife Minda now live in Carson, California and are actively involved in ministry in the USA and overseas. John Edmiston is currently available for teaching, preaching and seminars. John may be contacted by email at johned@aibi.ph or by Phone: +1-310-549-6791 , Fax: +1-310-834-2898 and Skype: johnedmiston

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Dan Wooding, 70, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for 48 years. They have two sons, Andrew and Peter, and six grandchildren who all live in the UK. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS) and was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. He now hosts the weekly "Front Page Radio" show on KWVE in Southern California which is also carried throughout the United States. The program is also aired in Great Britain on Calvary Chapel Radio UK and also in Belize and South Africa. Besides this, Wooding is a host for His Channel Live, which is carried via the Internet to some 200 countries. You can follow Dan on Facebook under his name there or at ASSIST News Service. He is the author of some 44 books. Two of the latest include his autobiography, "From Tabloid to Truth", which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, press this link. Wooding, who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, has also recently released his first novel "Red Dagger" which is available this link.