More Feedback

Further feedback on the new book – such an encouragement to me as a first time author…

I’ll 100% second this email’s sentiment! I’ve been meaning to email you or comment or something because I finished the Twelve What Abouts in a few days and loved every digital page turn (on my Kindle 4).

As the person who emailed you mentioned it’s very readable and yet as precise as it needs to be to convey the important message of God’s true G-R-A-C-E. I’ve been devouring every bit of Reformed content that I can get my hands on over the past 9 months or so, ever since my wife and I realized that the concept of “Free Will” is not only completely false, I just wanted to stop by and thank you for all your fine work in this area and let you know that I, for one, am benefitting immensely because of it!

Eric H

I agree, your book is very readable, and its easy to sense a real warmth and compassion for God’s people coming from you. I can’t wait to read your next book. – Ian D

Feedback

I continue to receive very encouraging feedback on the new book. Here’s an e-mail I received today from Don Double, one of England’s most prominent Christian Evangelists:

Dear John,

I want to thank you so very much for your book “Twelve What Abouts”. I am reading it in depth right now and enjoying it tremedously and finding it really helpful too. I’d like to say that I very much like your style which is what I would term ‘readable’ (for one with my limited academic background). You may be aware that when [my wife] Heather died, the big issue for me was me clearly seeing that ‘God is Sovereign’, thus helping me deal effectively with grief amongst many other things.

Trust you are doing well.
Don

Praise the Lord!

Why the Reformation is not over

Scott Manetsch (associate professor of church history and chair of the church history department at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Scripture and Tradition are two distinct but equal modes of revealed authority which the magisterium of the Roman Church has sole responsibility to transmit and interpret.
•For the early Protestant reformers, the holy Scripture provides final normative authority for Christian doctrine and practice, standing as judge above all institutions and ecclesial traditions.

•For Roman Catholics, sinners are justified because of inherent righteousness.
•For the mainstream Protestant reformers, sinners are accepted on the basis of the righteousness of another—namely, the alien righteousness of Christ imputed to them.

•For Roman Catholics, sinners are both justified by unmerited grace at baptism and (subsequently) justified by those infused graces merited by cooperating with divine grace.
•For the magisterial reformers, sinners are justified before God by grace alone.

•For Roman Catholics, sinners are justified by faith (in baptism), but not by faith alone.
•For the sixteenth-century Protestant reformers, sinners are justified by faith alone.

•For Roman Catholics, justification is a process of renewal that affords no solid basis for Christian assurance in this life.
•For reformers such as Luther and Calvin, justification is God’s decisive verdict of forgiveness and righteousness that assures Christian believers of the acceptance and love of their heavenly Father.

HT: JT