Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57891 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent practical, theological, pastoral exposition of new-birth
John Piper has shown great pastoral care in the way he has presented the new birth to his readers. As a Christian of more than 20 years, I found the book stimulating, very thought-provoking and personally challenging to examine my faith and relationship to Christ.
Piper has dealt with the issues with clarity, and especially one can see how Christ's complete propritiatory, atoning, electing and effective substitutionary work is behind every thought. What a marvellous God-honouring, God-glorifying, God-entrancing view of the new-birth.
A book that is worthy of placing in the hands of any Christian, young or old, and into the hands of friends, neighbours, or families. Also, a great tool for Bible-study in the home or with friends.
Is John Piper going to supplement this book with study notes?

Crystal-clear Exposition
I really cannot tell you how good this book is. It fills a gap in the market and presents a much-maligned (not to mention neglected) aspect of Christianity in a light that is both profound and inspiring.

In the past I have had some difficulty with Piper's books. I consistently appreciate the depths of His exposition but I've found his writing to be somewhat artless. It's not even that he can't right, but instead that he opts for the wrong approach - splitting all his chapter's into further subsections. I have found this to be quite interruptive. Nevertheless, Piper's exposition of the new birth is saturated in scripture and really quite comprehensive.

If you are not a Christian but are searching and are genuinely interested in what the Bible really teaches on conversion then this book is really a must-read. Likewise, if you're a Christian this book can be of much use as spiritual food, particularly in strengthening one's assurance of salvation.

A final caveat: this book is devoid of a discussion of the Cross. It is not about the reason for all conversions (justification by faith), rather it concerns the mechanics of individual conversion. That latter term is perhaps unflattering - the new birth is much more than mechanics, there is a glory and a grandeur in it that should not be overlooked - though, I'm sure you know what I mean. If you are interested in the Cross (as well, I suppose, you should be) I'd refer you to John Stott's seminal work The Cross of Christ or, for an easier read, the sermons of Martyn Lloyd Jones on the subject (compiled in The Cross).

Now don't get the wrong idea about this. Piper is in no way denying the Cross, nor indeed would he even think of such a thing. It is just that this book is, as I have said, exclusively about one specific aspect of salvation.

All in all, then, I commend this book highly and think it would be well worth your time and money.

Piper classic
An inspiring book that helps you to look back, look at your present condition and your future glory.