Conversion (9Marks: Building Healthy Churches)

Posted on 23 January 2017 by Michael Lawrence

Does what a church believes about how people become Christians change how we do evangelism In this concise book, Michael Lawrence explains the doctrine of conversion and helps us consider the relationship between what we believe about how people are saved and our approach to sharing the gospel in the context of the local church Readers of this book will understand how the local church should participate in the conversion process through ordinary means, such as biblical preaching and intentional relationships. Download Conversion (9Marks: Building Healthy Churches) By Michael Lawrence – kino-fada.fr This just might be the best book in this series Lawrence beautifully weaves together all the threads of local church theology and practice in a typical 9Marks fashion I highly recommend this excellent book on such an important and relevant topicReally excellentFirst sentence from chapter one In the introduction, I mentioned my friend who was concerned that his well mannered adult children weren t really Christians You might say they were nice, but not new not new creations His experience raises questions about the doctrine of conversion, as well as what that doctrine should look like in the life of a church It s crucial to get both our doctrine and our practices right Churches should believe that God makes people radically new, not just nice, thr First sentence from chapter one In the introduction, I mentioned my friend who was concerned that his well mannered adult children weren t really Christians You might say they were nice, but not new not new creations His experience raises questions about the doctrine of conversion, as well as what that doctrine should look like in the life of a church It s crucial to get both our doctrine and our practices right Churches should be...Excellent book Highly recommendConversion is often misunderstood, assumed, or ignored Yet it is the one and only means by which God makes a people for himself, by which Christ builds his church Not grasping a biblical understanding of conversion can lead churches to counterintuitive even harmful practices.This bo...Conversion How God Creates a People , by Dr Michael Lawrence, pastor of Hinson Baptist Church in Portland, Oregon, is one book in the 9Marks series of Building Healthy Churches.I selected to review this book because I m also reading another book about conversion at the time, and I know these series of books are relatively short, quick reads That is true of this book, but it is packed full of hard hitting truth in relatively a brief introduction, 8 chapters, and conclusion.As the title sugg Conversion How God Creates a People , by Dr Michael Lawrence, pastor of Hinson Baptist Church in Portland, Oregon, is one book in the 9Marks series of Building Healthy Churches.I selected to review this book because I m also reading another book about conversion at the time, and I know these series of books are relatively short, quick reads That is true of this book, but it is packed full of hard hitting truth in relatively a brief introduction, 8 chapters, and conclusion.As the title suggests, the book covers a biblical understanding of true conversion I cannot say enough good about this book, as it punches square in the nose many of the problems seen in the church related to false conversions.Chapter 1 New, Not Nice explains that we are made altogether new , not merely functionally nice...Biblical conversion is an incredibly important doctrine, which is massively misunderstood, and essential to faithful evangelistic efforts and church life Michael Lawrence helps clarify a lot of misunderstandings which have plagued churches perhaps especially in the West In addition to helping clarify the biblical teaching on being born again, Michael Lawrence helps connect a right understanding of conversion with evangelistic methods and church membership practices This little book has give Biblical conversion is an incredibly impor...This rating is really closer to a 2.5 Parts of this book were really good and other parts really bad Chapter 2, chapter 6, and the conclusion are particularly good sections Here, Lawrence makes some helpful distinctions along with some shrewd observations about the modern evangelical climate Although, some passages were mixed up Lawrence has no category for covenantal Christians who are either apostate or unregenerate He consequently struggles to resolve certain tensions that arise in his This rating is really closer to a 2.5 Parts of this book were really good and other parts really bad Chapter 2, chapter 6, and the conclusion are particularly good sections Here, Lawrence makes some helpful distinctions along with some shrewd observations about the modern evangelical climate Althoug...This was a very good, short survey and explanation of the doctrine of conversion and how it should be understood as impacting not only individuals but also the life and health of the local church Lawrence does a good job explaining it in simple terms This book would help any pastor or lay person grow in their faith and discernment One minor quibble is that the book assumed that the reader might be coming at the issue from a evangelical fundamentalist point of view He s probably right in tha This was a very good, short survey and explanation of the doctrine of conversion and how it should be understood as impacting not only individuals but also the life and health of the local church Lawrence does a good job explaining it in simple terms This book would help any pastor or lay person grow in their faith and discernment One minor quibble is that the book assumed that the reader might be coming at the issue from a evangelical fundamentalist p...The need to be born again is at the heart of Jesus teaching, and yet so often we fail to seriously consider how this should impact the way we engage with fellow Christians and the church.Lawrence helpfully walks us through the need for conversion, the nature of conversion, what a converted person should look like in ways that will help any believer grow in their faith His concluding chapters, on charity towards those professing faith imperfectly, and on the implications of this for our life an The need to be...

Conversion (9Marks: Building Healthy Churches)

English
23 January 2017

Michael Lawrence