Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: The Teen Edition

by Greear, J.D.; Gaston, Jason

• ISBN13: 9781462779215
• ISBN10: 1462779212
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-05-01
• Publisher: B&H Kids

Summary

Why is it so difficult to know that you are saved?
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 and answers the tough questions: 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 and Gaston are careful to present the material with a pastoral sensitivity and communication technique that makes this message teachable and applicable to teens.

Author Biography

J. D. Greear (PhD, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) is pastor of The Summit Church, a gospel-centered community of over 10,000 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. J. D. is the author of several books, including Not God Enough: Why Your Small God Leads to Big Problems (2018), Stop Asking Jesus into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved (2013), and Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary (2011). In 2018, he was elected the 62nd president of the Southern Baptist Convention and the youngest in almost forty years. J. D. and his wife Veronica live in Raleigh, where together they are raising four amazing kids: Kharis, Alethia, Ryah Layne, and Adon.