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    Jesus, Continued...: Why the Spirit Inside You Is Better than Jesus Beside You
    Jesus, Continued...: Why the Spirit Inside You Is Better than Jesus Beside You
    Jesus, Continued...: Why the Spirit Inside You Is Better than Jesus Beside You
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    Jesus, Continued...: Why the Spirit Inside You Is Better than Jesus Beside You

    Written by J.D. Greear

    Narrated by Maurice England

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    Encounter the dynamic presence of God as you learn from pastor and author J. D. Greear how to more fully experience the Holy Spirit within you.

    Jesus gave his disciples the audacious promise that the Spirit he would send to live inside them would be even better than if he himself remained beside them. Yet how many of us consider our connection to the Holy Spirit so strong that we would call his presence in us better than Jesus himself walking by our side?

    J. D. Greear was the pastor of a rapidly growing church who still felt like he didn't know how to relate to God personally. Though he knew a lot about God, he wasn't as sure about how to walk with God. Furthermore, he felt overwhelmed by the size of the mission Jesus had left for his church. In a world of so much need, what difference could he possibly make? Learning how God dwells in us and empowers us in the Holy Spirit redefined his life and ministry. Ministry became less about working for God and more about letting God work through him. Drudgery was replaced by delight; helplessness was replaced by empowerment.

    In Jesus, Continued... Greear explores--in clear and practical language--questions such as:

    • What does it mean to have a relationship with the Holy Spirit?
    • How can we tell when the Spirit is speaking to us?
    • What do you do when God feels absent?

    If you are longing to know God in a vibrant way, Jesus, Continued... has good news for you: That's exactly what God wants for you too. His Spirit stands ready to guide you, empower you, and use you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateNov 4, 2014
    ISBN9780310342366
    Author

    J.D. Greear

    J.D. Greear is lead pastor of The Summit Church, a multi-site congregation in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. He holds an M.Div. in International Church Planting and a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Greear also lived and worked among Muslims in Southeast Asia for two years and wrote Breaking the Islam Code. He and his wife have four children.

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    • 3/5
      A very mixed bag. A book with great overall theology, but overwhelmingly bad references and endorsements.

      PROS

      + Excellent theology (except see below).

      + He is very honest to say what he does not know.

      + The first Calvinist to come along to not be a Cessationist.

      CONS

      - He equates biblical 'faith' with the term 'Narnia' from C.S. Lewis books. He further speaks of witchcraft as the most normal thing, and compares Aslan with Jesus, which is blasphemy.

      - Specific endorsement of Rick Warren and his 'Purpose Driven Life'

      - Endorsement of Augustine (Doctor RCC, responsible for -most- of Catholicism's doctrines and practices, patriarch of Calvinism, key figure for Apocrypha canonization, doctrine of persecution, infant baptism).

      - He stated that his church invited the Calvinist John Piper to speak at his church.

      - Repeated endorsement of C.S. Lewis (believed in purgatory; Tao is the highest morality; rejected biblical inerrancy; theistic evolutionist; considered Hindu, Buddhist and Muslims as brothers in Christ).

      - Repeated endorsement of Billy Graham (Universalism, ecumenical, close collaboration with the Vatican and the Pope).

      - Repeated endorsement of Spurgeon ("more in heaven than in hell", ecumenism, Augustinian / Calvinist, " infants cannot but be odious and abominable to God", preached against baptismal regeneration ...).

      - Endorsement of Timothy Keller (Ecumenism and explicit promotion of the Catholic Church, Gospel Coalition, Theistic evolutionist, Contemplative Prayer / Catholic Mysticism, Lectio Divina, Emerging Church, Calvinist, Marxism ...).

      - He is essentially in love with Martin Luther (Augustinian, extraordinarily devoted to the 'Blessed Virgin Mary, Antisemitism, execution of Anabaptists, rejection of biblical inerrancy, rejection of Hebrews, James, Jude and Revelation, Non-Sabbatarianism, rejection of free will).
    • 5/5
      One of the better Christian books Ive "heard". Loved it.