Introduction: Now We Have the Buck, So Where's the Bang?
Part 1. Who Are We? Getting at the Truth of Our Identities
1. Knowing God and Man: Which Comes First? What Difference Does It Make?
2. What Happened in the Garden: Here We Are, Baby: Created, Tested, Ruined-We're Ours
3. Like Father, Like Son: Any Hope That Was an Isolated Incident?
Part 2. What Has God Done for Us? The Eternal Plan Conceived, Predicted, Executed
4. The God Who Plans: Can't Grasp the Deed Without a Glimpse of the Doer
5. God's Rescue Operation Outlined: God's Holy, Loving Wisdom Confronts Our Hopeless, Desperate Need
6. God's Rescue Operation Executed: God Enters Enemy Territory to Seek and to Save
Part 3. How Do We Get In? A Tale of Two Towering Truths
7. First Towering Truth-Declared Righteous: How God Deals with Our Bad Record
8. Second Towering Truth-Born from Above: How God Deals with Our Bad Nature
Part 4. How Do We Get Going? Preparing to Launch
9. The Struggle of New Life: Growth Is Hard
10. Gutless Gracers and Crisis Upgraders: Two Misguided Mind-Sets That Are Barriers to Genuine Christian Growth
11. The Quagmire of Muzzy Mysticism: Shall We Melt into Christ and Limply Let Him Live Through Us?
12. What About the Flesh? Christians' Biggest Problem Isn't External
13. What About the Holy Spirit? Demystifying the Mysterious Person of the Trinity-a Little!
14. Culmination: Putting It All Together
Afterword: Say… What Did You Just Do?
