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The house that Jesus builtPrejudice-busterTHE HOUSE THAT JESUS BUILT This is a short book to give to visitors who may come to your church. In a very friendly, succinct and even fun way, it explains both the gospel and what it is to be a Christian and belong to a church shaped by a Reformation approach to Scripture. It is a kind of brochure-cum-browser which enables people to make an informed choice about whether or not yours might be the church in which to settle. It briefly and helpfully covers, ‘What our church believes’, ‘What our church is’, and ‘How Christians live’. It closes with ‘The Matter that Matters’ — not first of all coming to church, but how we respond to the Lord Jesus Christ. Throughout there is a heavy emphasis on God’s amazing grace. God welcomes real sinners. We are not a perfect church but a group of sinners. The brief explanations of the gospel are miniature masterpieces which caused my heart to leap with thankfulness to God as I read them. The book was originally written for the church which Ralph Davis presently pastors, Wood-land Presbyterian Church, Hatties-burg, USA. However, it does not assume that only Presby-terians are Re-formed, and I think many Anglicans and Baptists could happily use the book in their own congregations. Only published in Britain earlier this year, such is its usefulness that many churches have already bought this book by the hundred and it is about to go into a second printing. Ralph Davis is not only a great OT expositor, he is also a winsome apologist for Reformation Christianity and this book will dissolve the prejudices which many people bring through our church doors and win them for Christ and his church. John Benton© Evangelicals Now - May 2007 |