Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved -

J. D. Greear

B&H Publishing Group

2013

128 páginas

4h 16m

ISBN-13: 9781433679216

"If there were a Guinness Book of World Records entry for 'amount of times having prayed the sinner's prayer, ' I'm pretty sure I'd be a top contender," says pastor and author J. D. Greear. He struggled for many years to gain an assurance of salvation and eventually learned he was not alone. "Lack of assurance" is epidemic among evangelical Christians.
In Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart, J. D. shows that faulty ways of present- ing the gospel are a leading source of the confusion. Our presentations may not be heretical, but they are sometimes misleading. 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, showing that salvation is a posture we take to the promise of God in Christ, a posture that begins at a certain point and is maintained for the rest of our lives. He also answers the tough questions about assurance: 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 never loses his pastoral sensitivity or a communication technique that makes this message teachable to a wide audience from teens to adults.

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5 (Perfeito)

Dá uma travada na mente, mas muito bom

Esse livro eu ouvi em português (não como tá mostrando aqui). Eu sabia que era salvo, mas a pergunta sempre vinha, de onde vem essa certeza? Através da salvação por meio de Cristo. E como vejo isso nas Escrituras?

O autor faz exatamente isso. Ele reúne experiências pessoais e de outras pessoas, juntamente com embasamento bíblico e discorre durante todo o livro pontos importantes como fé, arrependimento, certeza, segurança, perseverança e amor, essenciais para a compreensão da salvação.

Me ajudou muito a entender diversas questões e ficar em paz quando eu achar que realmente o evangelho é complexo e ao mesmo tempo simples.