Embracing True Christianity The Need for Evangelical Self-Examination in Our Denominations and Churches

dominant concern that all that he would do and say would bring glory to God and advance His kingdom.

Do you enjoy church and draw nourishment from it?

Conversion Is Real

As the pastor saw it, the professing Christian with lukewarm faith seeks the outward things of religion and asks the church to serve them. The true Christian, however, takes joy not most in what the church does for them, but in what God is doing in and through the church.

Biblical faith, in the end, begins and ends with a simultaneous love for the Savior and a hatred of sin. Without either component, faith never leaves the ground.

The fourth sign that marked the presence of a “true work” was a heightened love for truth and the things of God. Edwards continued:

We’ll see that the initial step in fighting nominalism is to identify and critique it.

The Marks of True Conversion: Love for the Word