suggest several major lessons and emphases we can pick up from Edwards and apply to the challenges of our day.

Possible Questions to Ask Our Nominal Friends

This is a key problem. As Guinness identifies, many of our churches have bought into the modern American consumer mindset in which we understand ourselves primarily as consumers and our churches as service-providers.

Embody Vibrant Christianity in Trial or Comfort

Concern for Nominal Christians of Specific Types

investing even a little effort in reading his writing will yield a huge spiritual payoff.

The Marks of True Conversion: Love for Christ

we look here at the positive signs that indicate the presence of saving faith in the human heart. The first of these signs was a “raised esteem” for Jesus Christ:

In this chapter, we turn from Edwards’s core conversion-ist beliefs to look at two personal examples of true Christianity as he conceived it.