Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity (The Essential Edwards Collection Book 4)

In chapter four, we will look briefly at two lives that embody Edwards’s conception of true Christianity.

A Theocentric Approach to Life, Ministry, and the Gospel

We now seek to apply the insights and practical experience of Edwards to our modern context. Though this is by no means an exhaustive proposal, it is a call to arms to Christians everywhere to seek true conversion and the vivifying life it creates.

we will gain wisdom into how Edwards thought about the problem of nominalism and how he addressed it.

Here is the ultimate mark of our decline. Because the church has largely lost its theological orientation in the wake of the Enlightenment and the ascendancy of a consumer culture, we have, perhaps unwittingly, redefined our God and what it means to know Him.

Find Comfort in Edwards’s Experience

Confronting Nominal Christianity

True Christianity is neither solely sorrow over sin or joy in Christ; it is both, married together, residing in the human heart, which personally receives, believes, and acts on these truths.

we need to emphasize the great purpose every life has before God. Christ’s redemption, applied to the soul of mankind, will not allow for a half-hearted life, a wasted stewardship of one’s talents and abilities. In the gospel, all find significance and purpose, and all find the cure for a lifetime of sins and failures that justly offend a holy God.