The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith? | John MacArthur

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	The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith? John MacArthur Zondervan, 2008 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 89 reviews view larger image
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What does Jesus mean when he says, ?Follow me??

Twenty years ago, pastor-teacher and bestselling author John MacArthur tackled that seemingly simple question?and wrote a book that has since taken its place among Christianity?s classics. This 20th Anniversary edition of MacArthur?s provocative book has been revised and contains one new chapter.

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The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith?

I don't always care for MacArthur's writings. He seems a bit full of himself. But on this topic he is right on the spot. The church is in the process of replacing the real Jesus with a made-up non-lord of the universe one. Buy this book, read it, and pray for us all

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EXCELLENT.

The Intro. alone is worth double the price.
Through the Bible and this book, I understand genuine saving faith.
Thank you, Dr. MacArthur.
C. Jasmagy

One of the most important books in the past 20 years

I first read this book when it was published in 1988. It countered the easy believism, self-delusional evangelism pervasive in my then-independent Baptist circles and confirmed the serious gospel of God's grace. I read several of the one-star reviews, and they typically represent a gross misunderstanding of grace that provides comfort to Christians whose children made decisions and then departed from the faith in adulthood.

The Bible commands us to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and speaks much about the pursuit of obedience as evidence of true faith. Obedience does not save, but the truly converted person will seek, however imperfectly, to obey his Lord. There is no salvation, only delusion, in a "gospel" which divorces obedience from faith. As the book of James aptly states, "Faith without works is dead."

Those who denounce MacArthur as mixing works with grace misrepresent the author. This is a serious book for those serious about following Christ. I would give it ten stars if that were an option.

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I think it's BOTH!

Grace and Works are often set in opposition to each other. Personally, I think a lot of these divisions are academic, nuanced discussions that the average lay person could care less about. Intuitively, I think we all recognize that God sought us out and His efforts through the life, death, burial, resurrection and ascension of Jesus the Christ saved/saves us. We also intuitively know/feel that effort cost Jesus his life and He performs an ongoing intecessory ministry on our behalf. I have to agree with Dr. MacArthur, if for no other reason (and there ARE plenty of OTHER reasons), our gratitude and love should compell us to live in obedience and pursue holiness. JESUS IS LORD...OUR LORD. We should act like it.

Those who protest submitting to the Lordship of Jesus tell us much about the quality of their faith and their "citizenship" in God's Kingdom. It is HIS kingdom. He is Lord. He commands. We obey. Period. Get over it.

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