Gospel Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary

by Greear, J.D.; Keller, Timothy

• ISBN13: 9781433673122
• ISBN10: 1433673126
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-01
• Publisher: B&H Books

Summary

Even in churches and movements founded on the truths of the Bible, man-centered approaches have often quickly eclipsed the simple power of the Gospel. The result is spiritual infertility and weariness in religion. The burnout and ineffectiveness of most evangelical churches is proof enough of the problem. J.D. Greear's new book, simply titled Gospel, cuts through the superficiality of religion and reacquaints readers with the revolutionary truth of the Gospel. If we can ever just grasp what the Gospel shows us about God, that will lead us from a life of self-involvement to one of joy, freedom, love, and radical generosity. We are freed from meaninglessness and selfishness by the beautiful truth about Jesus. Most effectively, Greear anchors the mission and theology within the writing here with a disciplined daily "gospel prayer" he wrote celebrating God's faithfulness, presence, love, and promise. It begins to give readers an applicable, exciting vision of how God might use them to bring His healing to this world.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. Xiii
Introduction	p. 1
How the Gospel Does What Religion Cannot
The Missing Gospel	p. 9
Why Religious Change Doesn't Work	p. 25
The Gospel Prayer
The Gospel as Gift-Righteousness	p. 45
Changed without a Command	p. 59
God Is Better	p. 59
Changed by Sigh	p. t87
Gospel-Centered Relationships	p. 109
Extravagant Generosity	p. 123"
Urgent Mission	p. 145
Expect Great Things	p. 151
"But if Not. . ."	p. 177
Toward a Gospel-Centered Understanding of Life
Why Are There "Commands" in Scripture?	p. 191
What Is the Right Way to Work for God?	p. 205
What Does a Gospel-Centered Church look Like?	p. 221
ConclusionYou'll Never Find the Bottom	p. 241
The Gospel Project	p. 249
A Gospel-Centered Warning to Young Zealous Theologians	p. 253
Notes	p. 257
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