Sublime

conclude with chapter five by noting what Edwards’s view of conversion led him to do in his own church, demonstrating that Edwards was no ivory-tower thinker, but a pastor who lived his convictions even to the bitter—but scripturally faithful—end.

heaven, if we would truly live by faith, we must be personally transformed by God such that we pursue Him, however imperfectly, on a constant basis.

theologians have been saying for a long time that we should conceive of Christian faith more as a way of life than as assent to a list of propositional assertions.

church leaders need to stay orthodox in their theology but open minded in their strategy for reaching and impacting culture.

it preserved the New Testament’s