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(More customer reviews)At the end of his long and distinguished career, the famous British preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) found himself locked in a battle with the Baptist Union over its decreasing attachment to scripture, and increasing acceptance of error and sin. And now, more than one hundred years later, Dr. John MacArthur, of Grace Community Church and the Grace to You radio ministry, finds himself being forced into the same battle against scriptural infidelity and pragmatism in the American Evangelical church. With piercing analysis and voluminous use of scripture, he attacks this not-altogether new trend in the Evangelical church.
Dr. MacArthur is a wonderful preacher and teacher, who is an expert at handling the Word. In this book, he examines the trends in the Evangelical church towards "Seeker-Friendly" services and ecumenicalism, and shows how they are incompatible with the Bible. I found his arguments to be cogent and highly convincing, and I must say that I really enjoyed his examination of the Pauline letters to Timothy. If you are interested in the course that the modern Evangelical churches are going, then you would do well to read this thought-provoking book.

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In the third edition of this top-selling book, JohnMacArthur challenges the seeker-sensitive, user-friendly,entertainment-oriented pragmatism that permeates the churchtoday.

In the late 1800s, Charles Spurgeon warned that the church wasdrifting away from the purity of the gospel, candy-coating God'sWord rather than boldly proclaiming the truths of Scripture. As aresult, Christianity's influence in nineteenth-century England wasseverely weakened. One hundred years later, John MacArthur,troubled by the seeker-sensitive movement and an emphasis onpragmatism within the church, sounded the same alarm with the firstedition of Ashamed of the Gospel.

In this newly revised and expanded edition, MacArthur gives anoverview of developments in the seeker-sensitive movement since hisbook was first published in 1993. New material traces the line ofpragmatic philosophy from the seeker-sensitive movement through theEmergent phenomenon, explaining why the latter is a philosophicalheir of the former-and an even greater danger; chronicles thefailure of pragmatic approaches to church growth; and emphasizesthe importance of evangelicals solidly committed to biblicaldoctrine rising to positions of leadership.

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