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"Written Not With Ink"

"Written Not With Ink"

Theodore Austin-Sparks (1888–1971) was a British evangelist and author. Born in London, he became a Christian at seventeen while listening to street-preachers in Glasgow, and was ordained a Baptist minister at twenty-four. In 1926 he left the denomination and, with like-minded Christians, founded a conference and training centre at Honor Oak in south-east London. From there he published the free magazine "A Witness and A Testimony" until his death, and his conference ministry took him across Europe, North America and Asia. He asked that his messages be shared freely and word for word. Source: Wikipedia (summarized; CC BY-SA)

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First published
1957
Category
Devotional
Length
54k words · about 4 hours
Chapters
20
Narration
🎧 Lewis · British English

About this book

Opening with Paul’s image in 2 Corinthians 3 of believers as Christ’s living letters, written by the Spirit and read by all, these messages explore living faith, resurrection, God’s purpose, and the Spirit’s work. Through biblical pictures including the Good Shepherd, Zion, Bethany, and rivers of living water, they call readers to embody God’s life together and make Him known. These messages were given in 1957 by T. Austin-Sparks in Taiwan. Chinese believers subsequently prepared transcripts from recordings of the meetings. It would appear that the audio recordings are no longer available. The spoken form has been retained, however, due to English not being the transcriber’s first language the messages have required some editing to convert them into correct English.

Contents

  1. Meeting 1 - Being Living Epistles
  2. Meeting 2 - A Living Faith
  3. Meeting 3 - The Effect of Living Epistles 🔒
  4. Meeting 4 - Read and Known of All Men 🔒
  5. Meeting 5 - The Holy Spirit as the Letter Writer 🔒
  6. Meeting 6 - God Has Shined into Our Hearts 🔒
  7. Meeting 7 - God's Answer 🔒
  8. Meeting 8 - Glorifying God 🔒
  9. Meeting 9 - The Good Shepherd 🔒
  10. Meeting 10 - A New Nation 🔒
  11. Meeting 11 - Citizens of Zion 🔒
  12. Meeting 12 - God's Purpose 🔒
  13. Meeting 13 - The Divine Seed 🔒
  14. Meeting 14 - God is For Us 🔒
  15. Meeting 15 - The Purpose of the Elect 🔒
  16. Meeting 16 - The House of God 🔒
  17. Meeting 17 - Pictures of Bethany 🔒
  18. Meeting 18 - "My Spirit... Upon You" 🔒
  19. Meeting 19 - "The Lord is There" 🔒
  20. Meeting 20 - Rivers of Living Water 🔒

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