The Word and the Way: Living the Christian Life

There are many books available today that address specific subjects related to how Christians ought to live—such as marriage, raising children, dealing with grief, and more. But The Word and the Way is different. Here, Eric Alexander offers a comprehensive view on the Christian life, walking the reader through what it means to be united to Jesus Christ by saving faith and the significance of that glorious truth for the whole of life.

Underlying any instructions about how Christians are to live must be the spiritual reality of the new birth, and how the Holy Spirit works in a person’s heart and mind through the Word of God to bring the repentant sinner into a right relationship with God, which begins the lifelong pursuit of being conformed to the image of Christ. The believer is given new affections, interests, and motivations, for the same Spirit of God who brought the individual to saving faith now indwells each Christian in their walk with the Lord. At the heart of it all is God’s love—this is the love that redeems, keeps, sanctifies, and will one day bring His people into the full sight of His glory.

Eric J. Alexander was an ordained minister in the Church in Scotland for over 50 years, spending many of those years as senior pastor in the historic St. George's-Tron Church in the center of Glasgow. He was a regular speaker at the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology, the Keswick Convention, and was the Bible expositor at the Urbana Conference of Intervarsity Fellowship.