Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart, J.D. Greear
Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart, J.D. Greear
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Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart
How to Know for Sure You Are Saved

Author: J.D. Greear

Narrator: J.D. Greear

Abridged: 3 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2013


Synopsis

“If there were a Guinness Book of World Records entry for ‘amount of times having prayed the sinner’s prayer,’ I’m pretty sure I’d be a top contender,” says pastor and author J. D. Greear. He struggled for many years to gain an assurance of salvation and eventually learned he was not alone. “Lack of assurance” is epidemic among evangelical Christians.In Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart, J. D. shows that faulty ways of present- ing the gospel are a leading source of the confusion. Our presentations may not be heretical, but they are sometimes misleading. The idea of “asking Jesus into your heart” or “giving your life to Jesus” often gives false assurance to those who are not saved—and keeps those who genuinely are saved from fully embracing that reality.Greear unpacks the doctrine of assurance, showing that salvation is a posture we take to the promise of God in Christ, a posture that begins at a certain point and is maintained for the rest of our lives. He also answers the tough questions about assurance: What exactly is faith? What is repentance? Why are there so many warnings that seem to imply we can lose our salvation?Such issues are handled with respect to the theological rigors they require, but Greear never loses his pastoral sensitivity or a communication technique that makes this message teachable to a wide audience from teens to adults.

About J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear is pastor of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, and the 62nd president of the Southern Baptist Convention. The Summit Church has been ranked by Outreach Magazine as one of the fastest-growing churches in the United States, with a weekly attendance of over 10,000. Greear has a Ph.D. in systematic theology from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of many books, including Gaining by Losing, Jesus Continued, and Not God Enough. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, Veronica, and their four children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on June 26, 2018

This book was recommended to me by one of my close friends. It is a really good book that dismisses the myths about losing Salvation, Lordship and how to be secured in your beliefs. I am glad that I read it, although a lot of it was rehearsed from previous books I read with similar content. This is......more

Goodreads review by Mark on May 01, 2013

Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart is pretty standard conservative evangelical Reformed Baptist material covering aspects of soteriology related to assurance. But it's well and searchingly presented, so this is a great book to hand to a young Christian. It's short and punchy, with appropriate con......more

Goodreads review by Josh on April 27, 2020

Absolutely enjoyed this book! Having grown up with a similar background as the author helped me resonate with the premise set forth. The title is provocative for certain (so many of us have used the phrase 'Have you asked Jesus into your heart') to many that grew up in Bible-believing, Bible-preachi......more

Goodreads review by Kris on March 25, 2018

Someone needs to re-write this book from the perspective of Lutheran sacramental theology. That's what Greear is missing. He tries so hard to get there, and doesn't make it, because his focus is not on the sacraments. He talks about assurance of salvation without talking about the means of grace. Gre......more