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‘Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart’ is a interesting title for a Christian book... and inside you’ll find the confessions of J.D. Greear, in which he holds his hand up and says “I lacked the assurance of my salvation”.
According to Greear he’s not alone. He describes this doubt as an epidemic among evangelical Christians that is the result of “asking Jesus into your heart” gospel presentations. A false assurance is an unsteady foundation to build your life upon.
So Greear has written a doctrine of assurance, referring to our belief as a posture towards God’s promises. He explains assurance as an ongoing revelation rather than an on/off switch. Also, Greear answer the difficult questions many struggle with:
• How should we define faith?
• What is repentance?
• Can we lose our salvation?
Written for everyday believers, Greear never wonders in to the dark theological woods without his enlighten writing style and always speaks a reassuring pastor. Both teenagers and adults struggling with doubt will benefit from reading this book.
“Assurance is the soil from which the fruits of the spirit grow. Assurance is the catalyst for radical acts of obedience. Assurance of the love of God for you is what produces love for God in you.” – J.D. Greear.
About the Author
J. D. Greear is lead pastor of The Summit Church, a multi-site congregation in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. He holds an M.Div. in International Church Planting and a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Greear also lived and worked among Muslims in Southeast Asia for two years and wrote 'Breaking the Islam Code'. He and his wife have four children.
Foward by Paige Patterson (respected Evangelical Biblical Scholar and author of 'The Apostle's Anointing)
1. Baptised Four Times
2. Does God Even Want Us to Have Assurance?
3. Jesus in My Place
4. What is Belief?
5. What is Repentance?
6. If "Once Saved, Always Saved", Why Does the Bible Seem to Warn Us So Often about Losing Our Salvation?
7. The Evidence You Have Believed
8. When You Continue to Doubt
Appendix 1: What About Baptism?
Appendix 2: The Indispensable Link between Assurance and the Doctrine of Justification by Faith Alone
“If there were a Guinness Book of World Records entry for ‘amount of times having prayed the sinner’s prayer,’ I’m pretty sure I’d be a top contender,” says pastor and author J. D. Greear. He struggled for many years to gain an assurance of salvation and eventually learned he was not alone. “Lack of assurance” is epidemic among evangelical Christians.
In Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart, J. D. shows that faulty ways of present- ing the gospel are a leading source of the confusion. Our presentations may not be heretical, but they are sometimes misleading. The idea of “asking Jesus into your heart” or “giving your life to Jesus” often gives false assurance to those who are not saved—and keeps those who genuinely are saved from fully embracing that reality.
Greear unpacks the doctrine of assurance, showing that salvation is a posture we take to the promise of God in Christ, a posture that begins at a certain point and is maintained for the rest of our lives. He also answers the tough questions about assurance: What exactly is faith? What is repentance? Why are there so many warnings that seem to imply we can lose our salvation?
Such issues are handled with respect to the theological rigors they require, but Greear never loses his pastoral sensitivity or a communication technique that makes this message teachable to a wide audience from teens to adults.
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J.D. Greear
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Broadman & Holman
Published
February 2013
Weight
182g
Page Count
128
Dimensions
12.7 x 18.1 x 1.6 cm
ISBN
9781433679216
ISBN-10
1433679213
Eden Code
4052573
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