Old Evangelicalism
Old Truths for a New Awakening
Weight | 0.88 lbs |
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Dimensions | 8.8 × 5.75 × 0.8 in |
ISBN | 9780851519012 |
Binding | Cloth-bound, eBook (ePub & Kindle), Cloth-bound & eBook (ePub & Kindle) |
Topic | General Theology, Church Issues/Unity, Historical Theology |
Original Pub Date | 2005 |
Banner Pub Date | Mar 1, 2005 |
Page Count | 226 |
Scripture | Whole Bible |
Format | Book |
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‘This is a good book, and the truths it proclaims are urgently needed for our day when Evangelicalism is in a state of theological free fall and utterly unsure of its identity. Here, we have for us what that identity looked like in the past so as to guide readers into biblical living in the present.’ — MICHAEL A. G. HAYKIN
‘It is always very profitable to read any book by Iain Murray. This one is no exception. Every minister or Christian worker should read everything he has ever written. Accordingly, I could wish that every preacher, pastor, missionary, and Christian worker could have [Old Evangelicalism] placed in their hands.’ — MACK TOMLINSON
‘The chief dangers that confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.’ — WILLIAM BOOTH
‘In 1901 the Salvation Army General, William Booth, was asked about the chief dangers for the 20th century, and he replied: “Religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.” According to Iain, the Arminian Booth got it tragically right.
Iain Murray tackles the issues of the need for conviction of sin in conversion, the imputed righteousness of Christ, the love of God seen in the cross, the general love of God for all, assurance of salvation, and Christian unity. The approach is more historical and pastoral than expositional, but the result is a balanced and fair treatment of each of the issues raised.
Murray has worked from a goldmine of quotations that should stimulate the reader’s thinking. Thomas Robinson wrote that “sin is nowhere seen so terrible, nor the law so inflexible, as in the cross of Christ”. God’s attitude to sin can be seen in the law, but even more graphically, in the cross. Yet the cross is also described by Augustine as “a pulpit in which Christ preached his love to the world”. Indeed, “Rabbi” Duncan speaks of God’s love for the lost in a most striking way: “Men evangelised cannot go to hell but over the bowels of God’s great mercies. They must wade to it through the blood of Christ.”
There is an interesting and helpful chapter on “What can we learn from John Wesley?” Such is the appreciation that Iain has come to of Wesley that he once exchanged a fine china figure of Wesley for a second-hand set of Daniel Neal’s History of the Puritans, and now regrets it. I rather think that he got the better of the deal, but it is true that Wesley deserves his due. This volume has much to commend it, and deserves to be widely read, digested, and re-read.’ — PETER BARNES
‘Orthodox Presbyterian pastors and people in the pew should read this book to sharpen their understanding of Calvinism compared with the approach of the new evangelicalism.’ — MARK R. BROWN in NEW HORIZONS
‘Iain Murray’s writings are always stimulating. He has an excellent, clear, English style, is well-read in the best of theology, has travelled the world interacting with the leading Reformed thinkers, is now an old man of mature thought and yet has a liveliness and excitement in his Christianity.’ — FREE CHURCH WITNESS
Book Description
Sin, regeneration, justification by Christ’s righteousness, the cross, and the love of God, assurance of salvation – these are the truths that once thrilled churches and changed nations. Yet, where evangelicalism continues to affirm these truths, without such results, it is often assumed that she must have needs that cannot be met without something new.
These addresses by Iain Murray challenge that mindset. While the Bible not history is the textbook in these pages, Murray draws on the best authors of the old evangelicalism to confirm what a glorious message the gospel is.
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Preface | xi | |
1. | PREACHING AND AWAKENING: FACING THE
MAIN PROBLEM IN EVANGELISM |
1 |
No One Will Become Concerned about Himself until
He Learns about God |
8 | |
Under Conviction Individuals Commonly Endeavour a Change of Behaviour | 9 | |
By the Law Men Learn Their Helplessness | 11 | |
The Initial Need in Evangelism Is Not to Win an Acceptance for Christ | 15 | |
Regeneration and Conviction | 18 | |
Conclusions: 1. The Case Demonstrated by History | 24 | |
2. What Preachers Need | 28 | |
ADDITIONAL NOTES: | ||
John Brown of Wamphray: What Preparation Is Not and What It Is | 33 | |
Thomas Scott: The Offence of the Cross Ceasing | 35 | |
Alexander Whyte: Preaching to the Conscience | 36 | |
D. M. Lloyd-Jones: The Law | 37 | |
2. | SPURGEON AND TRUE CONVERSION | 39 |
Conversion, Profound and Mysterious | 42 | |
Where Conversion Has to Begin | 46 | |
How the Law Came to Be Put Aside | 49 | |
Why Law Preaching? | 52 | |
What is Regeneration? | 54 | |
Preaching for Conversion | 60 | |
Conclusions: 1. True gospel preaching is multi-faceted | 64 | |
2. When there is a wrong conversion model a sense of sin and the fear of God disappear | 65 | |
ADDITIONAL NOTES: | ||
D. M. Lloyd-Jones: Evangelism and Conviction of Sin | 69 | |
A. W Tozer: ‘Conversion’ without Regeneration | 70 | |
3. | ‘CHRIST OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS’ – GOD’S WAY
OF SALVATION |
71 |
The Importance of the Doctrine | 73 | |
All Mankind in Darkness | 76 | |
Why ‘the Righteousness of Christ’ is Good News | 82 | |
Imputation – the Old Testament Gospel | 86 | |
Conclusions: 1. The danger of modifying the doctrine | 89 | |
2. Justification not to be preached alone | 90 | |
3. The doctrine always in need of recovery | 92 | |
4. Justification opposes man’s root sin | 94 | |
5. The solution to contemporary weakness | 95 | |
ADDITIONAL NOTES: | ||
George Herbert: Judgement | 97 | |
John Bunyan: My Righteousness in Heaven | 97 | |
Charles Simeon: Conversion Testimony | 98 | |
Martin Boos: Words He Never Forgot | 99 | |
Frances Ridley Havergal: Personal Testimony of 1864 | 99 | |
4. | THE CROSS – THE PULPIT OF GOD’S LOVE | 101 |
Two Truths | 106 | |
At Calvary We Learn of Forgiveness Consistent with Holiness and Justice | 108 | |
By Christ Crucified the Love of God Is to Be Made Known to All People | 110 | |
Particular Love and General Love | 115 | |
Conclusions: 1. Not all truth is equally important | 123 | |
2. The unexplainable not to be ‘explained’ | 124 | |
3. The practical, not the theoretical, is
Paramount |
125 | |
4. Care needed in controversy | 127 | |
5. The priority of love | 127 | |
ADDITIONAL NOTES: | ||
John Calvin: Gospel Preaching | 131 | |
Thomas Chalmers: God Is Love | 131 | |
William Nevins: The Extent of the Atonement | 132 | |
John Bonar: The Universal Offer and the Compassion of God | 132 | |
5. | WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM JOHN WESLEY? | 135 |
Wesley Is a Necessary Reminder of How Upbringing and Education Prejudice Our Minds | 139 | |
Wesley Has Something to Teach Us on the Relationship between Zeal for the Gospel and Church Government, Procedures and Practices | 143 | |
In Wesley and Methodism We Are Taught that Persuasion of the Love of God for Men Makes Churches Truly Evangelistic | 151 | |
A Parallel Witness from Scotland | 158 | |
Wesley Challenges Us on the Focus of Our Doctrine of Sanctification | 162 | |
6. | ASSURANCE OF SALVATION | 167 |
The Truth and Usefulness of Assurance | 170 | |
The Holy Spirit and Assurance | 172 | |
The Twofold Basis of Assurance | 175 | |
‘Legalism’ | 179 | |
A Third Way to Assurance? | 181 | |
Unbalanced Teaching | 190 | |
Conclusions: 1. Assurance and feelings | 194 | |
2. The non-Christian has no right to assurance | 195 | |
3. Assurance and service for Christ | 196 | |
4. The importance of assurance | 198 | |
CHRISTIAN UNITY AND CHURCH UNITY | 201 | |
Denominations and Unity | 204 | |
When Church and Denomination Are Confused | 207 | |
The Unity That Comes First | 210 | |
ADDITIONAL NOTES: | ||
John Owen of Thrussington: Uniformity and Unity | 215 | |
William Gibson: Unity and the Holy Spirit | 215 | |
Index | 217 |
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