Jon Zens: 4 books

In They Looked Up and Saw Jesus Only, Jon chronicles the contours of his personal journey, as reflected in his 40 years of editing BRR/ST from 1978–2018. Beginning with C.H. Dodd’s 1946 lecture in England, The Gospel and the Law of Christ, which signaled a turning-point in New Testament studies,...

A.M. Fairbairn noted concerning the early church that “regarded as to its internal relating, it was a family...in the apostles’ day churches were so small that everyone knew every other and kept a watchful eye on one another.” Most people would readily admit that now the majority of churches...

It was said of Jesus that "zeal for my Father's house consumes me." Is that zeal burning in us? Perhaps a big reason that such zeal has been muted or derailed in us rests in the fact that we have been led to chase after issues and ideals about Christ, instead of Christ Himself. This...

Protestantism carries on with the practice of making the "pastor" the focal point in church. In The Pastor Has No Clothes, Jon Zens demonstrates that putting all the ecclesiastical eggs in the pastor's basket has no precedent in the New Testament. Using 1 Corinthians 12:14, Zens shows the...