Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #340768 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 266 pages

Customer Reviews

Thought-provoking
At the end of his long and distinguished career, the famous British preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) found himself locked in a battle with the Baptist Union over its decreasing attachment to scripture, and increasing acceptance of error and sin. And now, more than one hundred years later, Dr. John MacArthur, of Grace Community Church and the Grace to You radio ministry, finds himself being forced into the same battle against scriptural infidelity and pragmatism in the American Evangelical church. With piercing analysis and voluminous use of scripture, he attacks this not-altogether new trend in the Evangelical church.

Dr. MacArthur is a wonderful preacher and teacher, who is an expert at handling the Word. In this book, he examines the trends in the Evangelical church towards "Seeker-Friendly" services and ecumenicalism, and shows how they are incompatible with the Bible. I found his arguments to be cogent and highly convincing, and I must say that I really enjoyed his examination of the Pauline letters to Timothy. If you are interested in the course that the modern Evangelical churches are going, then you would do well to read this thought-provoking book.

Great, but leave the Calvinism out, John.
Despite both my own commitment to a more 'Arminian' view of election and MacArthur's... Calvinism, I found this book very helpful. He attacks many of the worldly trends in the church today for leading the church in a dangerous direction. He shows that pragmatism (the looking to worldly wisdom for church practises) is quite unbiblical and argues for simple old-fashioned preaching.
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