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Eli Stanley Jones (1884–1973). Born on January 3, 1884, in Clarksville, Maryland, to George Washington and Lydia Jones, E. Stanley Jones was an American Methodist missionary, evangelist, and author renowned for his global ministry and interfaith dialogue. Raised in a devout Methodist family, he converted at 17 during a revival meeting, sensing a call to preach. He graduated from Asbury College in Kentucky (1907), where he honed his oratorical skills, and briefly studied law before committing to ministry. Ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church, he sailed to India in 1907 as a missionary under the Methodist Board of Missions, pastoring an English-speaking church in Lucknow and later focusing on evangelism among India’s intellectual and low-caste communities. His “round table conferences” fostered open discussions with Hindus and Muslims, earning respect from figures like Mahatma Gandhi. Jones authored 28 books, including The Christ of the Indian Road (1925), a bestseller translated into 30 languages, Christ at the Round Table (1928), Victorious Living (1936), and The Divine Yes (1975, posthumous), emphasizing Christ’s universal appeal. A global preacher, he spoke in over 40 countries, advocating Christian unity and social justice, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 and 1963. Married to Mabel Lossing in 1911, a missionary educator, they had one daughter, Eunice, who became a missionary. Despite health struggles, including a stroke in 1971, Jones died on January 25, 1973, in Bareilly, India, saying, “The way to God is Christ, and He is open to all.”
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E. Stanley Jones preaches on the foundational pillars of the Christian faith as outlined in the Acts of the Apostles. He emphasizes that Jesus is the embodiment of the Gospel, the Word made flesh, who brought the Good News through his teachings and actions. Jones highlights Jesus' atonement for our sins, his victory over death, his authority as the ultimate pattern for the new world, his position as the center of power at the right hand of God, and the inner adequacy provided by the Holy Spirit for believers to carry out the world revolution.
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What Jesus Taught and Brought in the Gospel
In the opening lines of the Acts of the Apostles, Luke sums up the meaning of what Jesus taught and brought in the Gospel. "In the first part of my work, Theophilus, I wrote of all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning until the day when, after giving ample instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up to heaven. He appeared to them and gave them ample proof that he was alive: over a period of forty days he appeared to them and taught them about the kingdom of God. While he was in their company he told them not to leave Jerusalem. 'You must wait,' he said, 'For the promise made by my Father, about which you heard me speak: John, as you know, baptised with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit, and within the next few days.'" (Acts 1:1-5) First: The Word became Flesh. Jesus began to do and teach. The Gospel begins with Jesus, the Incarnate. You cannot say "God" until you have first said Jesus, for Jesus puts character content into God -- His own character content. You cannot say Christ, the Kingdom of God, the Holy Spirit until you have first said Jesus, for Jesus puts his own character content in all of these. The Gospel lives in his person-- he did not merely bring the Good News, he WAS the Good News. Second: The Word became deed. Jesus did and taught. The Word was a deed before it was an exposition. Therefore it was not a philosophy or a moralism-- it was a fact, a deed; vital, not verbal. But his words were an expounding of what he was doing. So his deeds became words, and his words became deeds and, coming together with what he was, the Word became flesh. Third: The Word became atonement after Jesus' death. When this Word came in contact with the sin of man, it crimsoned into sacrifice. He gave himself for our sins. The outer cross lighted up the nature of God as self-giving love. Fourth: The Word became victorious. "Jesus showed himself to these men and gave ample proof that he was alive." Death could not hold him. Fifth: The Word became the ultimate and final authority and pattern for the new world. "Over a period of forty days, Jesus taught them about the Kingdom of God." The Kingdom became the Unshakable Kingdom and Jesus the Unchanging Person, the absolute order and the absolute Person. Sixth: The Word became the center of final power. "Jesus was taken up -- taken up to the right hand of God." So the earliest Christian creed was "Jesus is Lord." Seventh: The Word became inner adequacy. "Jesus told them not to leave Jerusalem. You must wait for the promise made by my Father... you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit." The Word became inner adequacy for this world revolution by the coming of the Holy Spirit within them. The Holy Spirit was the applied edge of redemption. These are the seven pillars upon which the Christian structure rests.
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Eli Stanley Jones (1884–1973). Born on January 3, 1884, in Clarksville, Maryland, to George Washington and Lydia Jones, E. Stanley Jones was an American Methodist missionary, evangelist, and author renowned for his global ministry and interfaith dialogue. Raised in a devout Methodist family, he converted at 17 during a revival meeting, sensing a call to preach. He graduated from Asbury College in Kentucky (1907), where he honed his oratorical skills, and briefly studied law before committing to ministry. Ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church, he sailed to India in 1907 as a missionary under the Methodist Board of Missions, pastoring an English-speaking church in Lucknow and later focusing on evangelism among India’s intellectual and low-caste communities. His “round table conferences” fostered open discussions with Hindus and Muslims, earning respect from figures like Mahatma Gandhi. Jones authored 28 books, including The Christ of the Indian Road (1925), a bestseller translated into 30 languages, Christ at the Round Table (1928), Victorious Living (1936), and The Divine Yes (1975, posthumous), emphasizing Christ’s universal appeal. A global preacher, he spoke in over 40 countries, advocating Christian unity and social justice, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 and 1963. Married to Mabel Lossing in 1911, a missionary educator, they had one daughter, Eunice, who became a missionary. Despite health struggles, including a stroke in 1971, Jones died on January 25, 1973, in Bareilly, India, saying, “The way to God is Christ, and He is open to all.”