My Salvation Is Close at Hand

Christians in the West are wondering just how God is at work their world today. North Americans are at a loss to explain why churches that used to be full are now in decline and why older models of evangelism and church growth seem less successful than anticipated.In response, Christians should seek to retrieve the Old Testament basis of their New Testament faith. Isaiah 56-66, sometimes called "Third Isaiah," belongs to a time when the people of Judea were under Persian rule--things were not as