What Ever Happened To The Gospel of Grace? Rediscovering the Doctrines That Shook the World [Whatever]

9781581342376

Plot

Boice explores the church's desperate need to examine and return to the foundational doctrines of the Reformation. He explains where Christians have gone wrong, presents the ""sola"" doctrines that first shook the world during the Reformation -- Christ alone, Scripture alone, faith alone, grace alone, and God's glory alone -- and explains how these doctrines can shape a renewal today in believers' hearts. Combines a serious examination of the state of today's church and a powerful solution: reclaiming the gospel of grace found in the confessional truths of the Reformation.

Though the Christian church has achieved a worldly sort of success-big numbers, big budgets, big outreaches-these are not good days for evangelicalism. Attendance is down, and it is increasingly difficult to distinguish so-called "believers" from their non-Christian neighbors-all because the gospel of grace has been neglected.

In this work, now in paperback, the late James Montgomery Boice identifies what's happened within evangelicalism and suggests how the confessional statements of the Reformation-Scripture alone, Christ alone, grace alone, faith alone, and glory to God alone-can ignite full-scale revival. "A church without these convictions has ceased to be a true church, whatever else it may be," he wrote, but "if we hold to these doctrines, our churches and those we influence will grow strong.