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    It's Friday but Sunday's Comin
    It's Friday but Sunday's Comin
    It's Friday but Sunday's Comin
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    It's Friday but Sunday's Comin

    By Tony Campolo

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    A Tony Campolo Classic!

    For everyone who has lost at love, been let down by life, feels like their universe is unraveling...here is the celebrated message from Tony Campolo to warm their souls and encourage them to keep trusting in God.

    This repackaged edition celebrates one of the most classic messages of our day. Get ready to be challenged and inspired by Tony Campolo's timeless words of hope for every believer... "IT'S FRIDAY, BUT SUNDAY'S COMIN'

    "Where would we be without Tony Campolo?  I encourage all Christians with open minds and hearts to let Tony's wisdom and passion challenge, disturb, and educate you."

    - Brian McLaren

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateApr 15, 2008
    ISBN9781418552329
    It's Friday but Sunday's Comin
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    Tony Campolo

    Dr. Tony Campolo es profesor emeritus de Sociología en el Eastern College de St. Davids, estado de Pennsylvania. Es También fundador y presidente de la Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education, una organización educativa que ayuda a niños y adolescentes "en situación de riesgo", en las ciudades de Estados Unidos de América y en otros países en desarrollo. El Dr. Campolo tiene escritos más de 20 libros y es un orador popular tanto a nivel nacional como internacional. Él y su esposa, Margaret, residen en Pennsylvania.

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      It's Friday but Sunday's Comin - Tony Campolo

      IT’s FRIdAY BuT

      SUNdAY’s

      COMiN’

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      IT’s FRIdAY BuT

      SUNdAY’S

      COMiN’

      TONY CAMPOLO

      © 1984, 2002 by Anthony Campolo

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson. Thomas Nelson is a registered trademark of Thomas Nelson, Inc.

      Thomas Nelson, Inc. titles may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fund-raising, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail SpecialMarkets@ThomasNelson.com.

      Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the King James Version of the Bible.

      Scripture quotations marked NKJV are from THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION. © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked NASB are from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®. © The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977. Used by permission.

      Scripture quotations marked RSV are from the REVISED STANDARD VERSION of the Bible. © 1946, 1952, 1971, 1973 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by permission.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Campolo, Anthony

      It’s Friday, but Sunday’s comin’.

      1. Christian life—1960– . 2. Jesus Christ—Person and offices, I. Title.

      BV4501.2.C248 1984     248.4     83-25895

      ISBN 0-8499-1770-0 (hardcover)

      ISBN 978-0-8499-2090-5 (repackage)

      Printed in the United States of America

      08 09 10 11 12 RRD 5 4 3 2 1

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      To Robert and Winifred Davidson

      Loving In-Laws

      Who Model Christian Servanthood

      CONTENTS

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      CHAPTER ONE

      A Very, Short Statement Concerning the Purpose of This Book

      CHAPTER TWO

      Jesus Answers Our Need for Psychological Health and Emotional Well-Being

      CHAPTER THREE

      Jesus Satisfies Our Need for a Sense of Self-Worth and Value

      CHAPTER FOUR

      Jesus Answers Our Need for Love

      CHAPTER FIVE

      Jesus Meets Our Need for the Miraculous

      CHAPTER SIX

      Jesus Meets Our Need for a Purpose in Life

      CHAPTER SEVEN

      Jesus Meets Our Need for Hope

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      I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.

      —ROMANS 1:16 KJV

      1

      A VERY, SHORT STATEMENT CONCERNING THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK

      ONE

      s15

      I LIKE THE BIBLE VERSE in the first chapter of Romans that reads I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ (1:16 KJV). That verse expresses how I feel when I consider the work and message of Jesus Christ. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, because the Gospel of Christ meets every need of every human being on this planet. I hope that you will discover this. No matter what your need may happen to be, I have good news for you: Jesus can meet that need. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, because I know of no situation or predicament that human beings must face that poses problems for which Jesus does not have answers. In our day and age it seems that most people have looked everywhere but to Jesus for the satisfying of their needs and the answering of their questions. In this book I will try to point out some ways in which Jesus meets some of the most important needs of human existence.

      What I have written is drawn from material that originally was part of a motion picture entitled It’s Friday, but Sunday’s Comin’. Most of this book was originally spoken material. As you read it, I would like you to keep that fact in mind. Better still, imagine that I am talking to you rather than writing to you.

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      JESUS ANSWERS OUR NEED FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING

      TWO

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      I EARN MY LIVING AS A SOCIOLOGIST, and I can verify the fact that one of the most common tendencies these days is for troubled people to turn to psychologists and sociologists for help. More and more people believe that social science can solve their problems. If you have been caught up in this mania, I have bad news for you: The social scientific approach to problem solving is not as successful as you may think. Those who try it often find it falls short of their expectations.

      The Hans Eysenck study, one of the most significant evaluative studies of the treatment of the emotionally disturbed, points out that if you have psychological problems, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists may not offer you much help. Among those who go to psychoanalysts, Eysenck reports, 44 percent become healthy in one year. Among those who go to psychotherapists, 53 percent get well within a year. Among those who go to psychiatrists, about 61 percent become healthy within a year. However, among those who are emotionally troubled and seek no professional help, 73 percent get well within a year.

      These results frighten me. I don’t know whether the statistics surprise you as much as they surprised me, but I found myself wondering whether professional psychoanalysts and psychotherapists help people or make them worse. It appears that those who we hope can help us when we are psychologically and emotionally disturbed seem to be keeping us sick.

      How many of the people you know who go for professional counseling from psychoanalysts and therapists seem never to get out of counseling? Five or six years after they start seeing some analysts or therapists, they are still paying twenty-five dollars or more a half-hour once a week for treatment and showing very few signs of improvement. If you ask why, you might find the answer in the fact that social scientists have often tended to ignore the basic principles of the Gospel.

      First of all, counselors sometimes make the mistake of tracing all of our emotional and psychological difficulties to events and traumas that happened in the past. They usually try to figure out what it is in a person’s background that has made the person into the kind of individual that he or she is in the present. For many counselors, the case history of the individual supposedly provides all the clues necessary to figure out the person’s problems. I know several psychologists, particularly those who call themselves behaviorists, advocating what they call behavioral modification models, who tie into this style of thinking. They are sure that humans are nothing more than socially conditioned creatures whose futures have been predetermined by their pasts. Neo-Freudian psychoanalysts are almost as bad as the behaviorists, for they too put an overemphasis on the way that the individual’s past controls his destiny.

      When I was a university lecturer, there was a colleague of mine who was heavily into this approach. He could be counted on to explain all personal problems as being a result of poor toilet training. I loved to sneak into his lectures and hear him explain his theories to students. He was a brilliant teacher, and I find that few things are more fun than listening to such an intelligent person articulate some stupid ideas.

      With him, everything about a person was the result of toilet training. When he lectured, he would make this point with all the enthusiasm and zeal of a Baptist evangelist. He would say, Students, the first demand that society ever makes on the individual comes with toilet training. What happens in toilet training is a precursor to all the demands that society will ever make on the person. Please know that toilet training is the first thing that society requires of anyone. The mother is the communicator of societal demands. Consider how she pleads for compliance with social expectations, how she implores the child and begs, ‘Do it for Mommy! Do it for Mommy!’ However, the child sometimes resists the pleas of his mother. He may rebel against her wishes, and when this happens, social rebellion is bred into the youngster. The child may defiantly say, ‘No!’ If the mother is tough and steadfast, she may demand, ‘You stay there until something happens!’ The child stays there. He works on it. He works on it hard. He gives to the task everything he’s got and then after a long time he succeeds and finally produces the gift for which society has pled. (I must admit I never heard it called a gift before.)

      The lecturer reached the height of absurdity when he cried out to the students, "I ask you, what does society do with this gift that the child has produced on its behalf? What does it do with the results of the child’s labor? Does society preserve it? Does society honor it? Does society view it as a symbol of the child’s accomplishment? No!

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