Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Foreword by Anthony C. Thiselton -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Part One: Relating Faith: Discipleship -- 1. Being Formed by God's Biblical Speech-Acts -- God's Biblical Speech-Acts -- How Westerners Block God's Biblical Speech-Action -- How to Be Formed by God's Biblical Speech-Action -- 2. Communion with Christ in the Central-Room -- Communion and Conflict: Becoming Different to the World -- Communion and Conditioning: Battle to Reshape the Christian -- Communion and Criticism: Openness to Challenge by the Real -- Communion and Compromise: Against Narcissism and Obscurantism -- Communion and Cultivation: Education and Being Interpreted -- Communion and Community: Promoting Gifts and Reconciliation -- 3. Love for God and Others: Biblical Lawfulness -- The Fig-Leaf: We Distort God's Law to Hide Our Sin -- Shame Laid Bare: God's True Law Exposes Our Sin -- The Fleshly Lawlessness that God's True Law Exposes -- The Fleshly Legalism that God's True Law Exposes -- The Demonic Oppression Associated with Fleshly Legalism -- The Downward Spiral: Fleshly Lawlessness and Fleshly Legalism -- Jesus' Life, Death and Resurrection Ministry as Satisfaction of God's Law -- God the Trinity and Jesus' divine nature -- Jesus' human nature and legal qualification as our penal substitute -- Jesus' life: his earthly mission and our human predicament -- Jesus' death: the legal forfeit that procures our justification -- Jesus' resurrection: establishing the new covenant with believers -- Jesus' exaltation: his enthroned redemptive mission -- Four Further Points Related to Jesus' Satisfaction of God's Law -- Justified by Grace, by Faith, apart from Law, but still under Christ's Law of Love -- The Heart of God's Law: Love for God as Genuine Worship.

The Social Outworking of God's Law: Lawfulness as Love for Others -- Love as biblically wise relating to others -- Biblically wise relating versus anti-intellectualism -- Repudiating sinful manipulative strategies -- Trinitarian inclusiveness that confers freedoms -- Helping others into the freedom of right relating -- The Advancement of God's Law: Lawfulness and Human Laws -- Submission, testimony and refinement -- Qualified respect for human judgements -- Resonance, witness, love and wisdom -- Part Two: Relating Faith: Church -- 4. Church Distorted by Modernity -- How the Church Blocks Right Relating, Gifts and Ministries -- Caveats in Defence of Church Leaders -- 5. Church Distorted by Postmodernity -- 'Corinthian' and Postmodern Cultural Sins in Churches Today -- Corinthian and Postmodern Cultural Sins versus True Christian Spirituality -- 6. Distorted Church as the Main Cause of Church-Hopping -- Relational Problems as a Cause of Church-Hopping -- Relational pre-emptive manoeuvring -- Relational breakdown -- Relational sin -- Relational dissonance -- Relational difference -- Cultural Sinfulness as a Cause of Church-Hopping -- Narcissistic self-promotion -- Materialistic self-diversion -- Relativistic self-evasion -- Distorted Theological Persuasions as a Cause of Church-Hopping -- People can feel theological distortions -- Platonic or traditional theological distortions -- Charismatic theological distortions -- Older-style liberal theological distortions -- Post-evangelical theological distortions -- Marginalization of biblical-relational Christianity -- Distorted Church Structures as a Cause of Church-Hopping -- Distorted church structures, infantilization and blocked ministries -- The silencing of true prophets and theologians -- The resulting hungry flock: 'the bleating of the lambs' -- Distorted Styles of Worship as a Cause of Church-Hopping.

Distorted 'freedoms' in worship -- Distorted 'forms' in worship -- Distorted Pastoral Practice as a Cause of Church-Hopping -- Distorted pastoral practice: irrelevant 'abstract salvation' -- Distorted pastoral practice: too close to cult dynamics for comfort -- Distorted pastoral practice: inadequate for complex issues -- Distorted pastoral practice: divorced from genuine prophetic discourse -- Distorted Witness as a Cause of Church-Hopping -- Horizons of Expectation and Consecration to God as Causes of Church-Hopping -- Are We Being Too Harsh on the Church? -- Eight Final Suggestions for Positive Ways Forward -- Part Three: Relating Faith: Mission -- 7. Mission Distorted by Five Distorted Church Cultures -- Reformaca -- Evangelica -- Charismatica -- Liberalica -- Post-Evangelical Neo-Pragmatica -- 8. Mission and What Evangelism Doesn't Involve -- Against Standardizing Disciples and Discipleship -- Against Standardizing Churches and Mission -- Against Embarrassing Breaches of Social Etiquette -- Against Obscurantist Sloganeering that Resists Biblical Wisdom and Apologetics -- Against Pseudo-Evangelistic Infantilization that Resists Content and Vocabulary -- Against the False Evangelistic Promises of Counterfeit Worship Cultures -- Against Fleshly Legalistic 'Evangelism at Spiritual Gunpoint' -- 9. Mission and Understanding Modernity and Postmodernity -- Rise of the Knowledge of God versus Death-of-God Utopianisms -- Turn to Relationality versus 'Play' and Conflict -- Rise of Historical Consciousness versus Historical Negationism -- Rise of Liberating Concientización versus Historical Relativism -- Linguistic Turn to Enfleshed Word versus Docetic-Rhetoricist Flux -- Rise of Democracies versus Fragmentation and Authoritarianism -- Rise of True Self-Awareness versus Avoidant 'Deconstructed Selves'.

Rise of True Interpretation versus Deceit over 'Impossible Objectivity' -- Today's Postmodern Spiritual Battlefield -- Modernity and Bad Postmodernity: Disasters and False 'Solutions' -- Bad Postmodernity Deployed: Twenty-Five Resulting Problems -- Fivefold cognitive, relational and ethical disintegration -- Fivefold cultural 'fragmentation-authoritarianism' dipole -- Five problematic 'allowed rhetorics' that control speech -- Five problems resulting from modernity remain unaddressed -- Five problems associated with digital culture -- Biblical-Relational Evangelism and Promoting Good Postmodernity -- What true mission to Western postmodern society does not look like -- The general characteristics of true mission to Western postmodern society -- The specific characteristics of true mission to Western postmodern society -- Endnotes.