If God is in control of everything, can Christians sit back and not bother to evangelize? Or does active evangelism imply that God is not really sovereign at all?
J.I. Packer shows in this classic study how both of these attitudes are false. In a careful review of the biblical evidence, he shows how a right understanding of God's sovereignty is not so much a barrier to evangelism as an incentive and powerful support for it.
J. I. Packer is author of the best selling Christian classic Knowing God. He is Board of Governors Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver.
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Reviews
dan Taylor says:
I remember back in Bible college and being assigned Packer’s Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God as a textbook. When I purchased it at the bookstore, I thought, “This little thing is worth being a textbook?” Obviously that nineteen year-old ignorant, diminutive theologian didn’t know what he was in for. That little book not only introduced me into the theological whirlpool of paradoxes, ... Read more
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Audiofile Magazine says:
While not "deep" theology, this is an erudite and thoughtful discussion of evangelism in the context of God's sovereignty. Or to put it another way, here is a title that explains the work of God in the affairs of men. The author, who is a well-known evangelical author, theologian, and pastor, adroitly explains in understandable terms the interdependence of the work of God and man in the process of... Read more
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