Rediscovering the Teaching of George Fox

Author: Lewis Benson

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Description: When you look at the voluminous writings of George Fox, published and unpublished, you might be tempted to wonder, where do I start? There is an answer to that question: “Start Here.” These 10  lectures constitute a survey course of what Fox had to say to the world. In these lectures, Lewis Benson covered the following topics: 

1. THE PLACE OF GEORGE FOX IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY  
2. THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL PREACHED BY GEORGE FOX  
3. THE RELATION OF FOX’S MESSAGE TO THE BIBLE 
4. THE NEW WORSHIP 
5. THE NEW CHURCH ORDER 
6. THE NEW MINISTRY 
7. THE NEW RIGHTEOUSNESS 
8. RESTORING THE CHURCH OF THE CROSS  
9. FOX’S TEACHING ON THE HOLY SPIRIT 
10. THE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSALISM OF GEORGE FOX 

In lecture one, Lewis stated: “As we have come to understand Fox’s message, we have come to regard  it as much more than a variant on themes derived from the Reformation of the sixteenth century, or  from Roman Catholicism, or from the Christianity of Puritan England. Fox was making a new  beginning from a new starting point. He claimed that he was preaching a gospel that had gone into  eclipse since the apostolic age.” What is that gospel? 

In lecture two, Lewis stated: 

"I will try to summarize what I believe to the heart of Fox’s message:  

First, it is a proclamation that Christ is alive, and that he is present in the midst of all  who gather together in his name.  

Second, the living Christ is present in our midst in a functional way. As our living  shepherd he feeds us, as our living bishop he oversees us, as our living prophet and teacher  he teaches us God’s righteousness, as our living king he rules and governs us, and as our  living priest he intercedes for us and forgives us.  

These functions or offices of Christ are the central theme of Fox’s gospel ministry. The  purpose of this ministry was to turn people to Christ. And when we turn to Christ and come  to know him in personal encounter, he becomes our shepherd, our teacher, our counsellor  and leader and guide. We know him by what he does.  

This is the message that caused many thousands to begin to gather in the name of Jesus  in order to come to know him in all his offices.  

In its shortest form, this gospel was sometimes reduced to just eight words: “Christ has  come to teach his people himself.”  

The effect of these lectures is to bring us to the conviction that there yet remains a might work of  God to be done in the world today.