Product Description
Many people believe they can initiate their salvation, either through choosing to believe or on their own merits. Yet the Bible is clear that we can't take even the first step toward reconciliation with God on our own—we are spiritually dead and can do nothing unless we are given new life.
Matthew Barrett explores the doctrine of regeneration to show us what truly happens to us when we are saved. He compares the gospel call with the effectual call and shows us how God's gift of a new heart and new birth, rather than anything we have done, initiates our salvation.
Pages: 36
Publication Date: 2013
Topic: Justification, Sanctification, Salvation,
Endorsements
"The doctrine of effectual calling is at the heart of what it means to confess that Jesus Christ is the sole and sufficient Savior of spiritually dead sinners. Matthew Barrett does a great job of condensing this doctrine into a readable form that all can understand."
—Timothy George, Dean of Beeson Divinity School of Samford University and an Executive Editor of Christianity Today.
About the Author
Matthew Barrett is Associate Professor of Christian Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminar, as well as Executive editor of Credo Magazine. He is the author of None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God and The Doctrine on Which the Church Stands or Falls: Justification in Biblical, Theological, Historical, and Pastoral Perspective.
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