Christian Maturity Abingdon Classic

by E. Stantey Jones

The David, The King unit uses the Bible story from 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 10 and 6:1-5, 14-15, 18-19. After the death of Saul, Israel’s first king, the people from the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and made a covenant to the Lord, declaring that David should be king of all Israel. David had already been King of Judah for seven and a half years. Now all the tribes were united.

David consolidated the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel and established the capital in Jerusalem. It was called the “City of David,” In addition to this being a political capital, David made Jerusalem a religious center by bringing the ark of the covenant to the city.

The story of King David is a story of humanity. There are victories and defeats, great courage and devastating sin. Throughout the story we see how David turned to God in both praise and confession. God blessed him and guided him as he led his people.

Children will recognize:

the stories of King David come from the Old Testament of the Bible;
the Old Testament tells us about ordinary men and women who did extraordinary things with God’s help;
King David is the same person as the harp-playing shepherd boy anointed by Samuel;
David brought the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem as a symbol of God’s presence with the new nation;
David trusted God and asked God to help him know how to lead the people of Israel;
like King David, we need to ask for and follow God’s guidance;
David made many mistakes. When he asked for forgiveness, God forgave him and continued to use David for God’s purposes;
God forgives us and uses us, in spite of our mistakes, for God’s purposes;
God is with us all the time.

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Paperback, 344 pages

Published January 1st 1992 by Abingdon Press (first published January 28th 1957)

E. Stantey Jones

E. Stanley Jones (1884 - 1973)

Was a 20th-century Methodist Christian missionary and theologian. He is remembered chiefly for his interreligious lectures to the educated classes in India, thousands of which were held across the Indian subcontinent during the first decades of the 20th century. According to his and other contemporary reports, his friendship for the cause of Indian self-determination allowed him to become a friend of leaders of the up-and-coming Indian National Congress party. He spent much time with Mohandas K. Gandhi, and the Nehru family. Gandhi challenged Jones and, through Jones' writing, the thousands of Western missionaries working there during the last decades of the British Raj, to include greater respect for the mindset and strengths of the Indian character in their work.

His work became interdenominational and world-wide. He helped to re-establish the Indian “Ashram” (or forest retreat) as a means of drawing men and women together for days at a time to study in depth their own spiritual natures and quest, and what the different faiths offered individuals. In 1930, along with a British missionary and Indian pastor and using the sound Christian missionary principle of indigenization. (God’s reconciliation to mankind through Jesus on the cross. He made Him visible as the Universal Son of Man who had come for all people. This opening up of nations to receiving Christ within their own framework marked a new approach in missions called "indigenization") Dr. Jones reconstituted the “Ashram” with Christian disciplines. This institution became known as the ”Christian Ashram.”

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