A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance
by Kirsten Birkett
Contents
Introduction
1 Divine Sovereignty
2 Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility
3 Evangelism
4 Divine Sovereignty and Evangelism
General Summary
This book is “a piece of biblical and theological reasoning, designed to clarify the relationship between three realities: God’s sovereignty, man’s responsibility and the Christian’s evangelistic duty.” (From the Preface.)
Introduction
Far from preventing evangelism, belief in the sovereignty of God is the only thing that can “give us the resilience that we need if we are to evangelize boldly and persistently.”
1. Divine Sovereignty
You believe God is sovereign, for you pray, which only makes sense if God is the one in control. You believe God is sovereign in salvation, for you thank God for your conversion, and you pray for the conversion of others. There has been controversy over God’s sovereignty, but in fact all Christians believe in it, but some are not aware that they do, because of “the intruding of rationalistic speculations.” People cannot see how human responsibility is consistent with God’s sovereignty, so they reject it despite its biblical reality, and despite the fact that they still pray. . . .
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