Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
I extend sincere appreciation to Zondervan’s Executive Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Stan Gundry, for his nearly three decades of judicious guidance, challenging and chiding me while at the same time expressing supreme confidence in my work. I also wish to thank Jim Ruark, who has expertly guided this volume through the editorial process. To Professor Lyle Bierma, outstanding church historian and theologian, I am most grateful for critiquing and for correcting mistakes in the manuscript in its early stages. To Robert Hosack, friend and Executive Editor at Baker Books, I am especially appreciative of his fine indexing and sharp eye for errors. To my husband, John Worst, I am deeply indebted for reading and re-reading and encouraging me every step of the way, making this book his own. For all errors and shortcomings that remain, I take full responsibility.