Christ’s Call to Reform the Church: Timeless Demands From the Lord to His People
Overview
What does the church need to hear today?
As many have said, the church must always be reforming. It must continually move closer to a truer, more faithful expression of the gospel. The risen Christ’s powerful letters to the seven churches in Revelation are a guide to just that.
Based on John MacArthur’s exposition of these letters, Christ’s Call to Reform the Church is a plea to the modern church to heed these divine warnings, to reform before it succumbs to the kinds of compromise and error that invite God’s judgment.
Christ’s Call to Reform the Church admonishes the church today to learn from the mistakes God’s people have made in the past, rather than commit them again. The Word of God has many benefits, one of which is that it reveals our blind spots. That’s what this book does—it shines a light on problems we didn’t know we had. May it be embraced by Christians everywhere, spurring them toward the God-honoring, grace-driven work of continued reformation.
Key Features
- Analyzes trends in evangelical cultural engagement
- Focuses on the authority and sufficiency of Scripture
- Calls the church to focus on the gospel message of reconcilliation
Contents
- Calling the Church to Repent
- The Lord’s Work in His Church
- The Loveless Church: Ephesus
- The Persecuted Church: Smyrna
- The Compromising Church: Pergamum
- The Corrupt Church: Thyatira
- The Dead Church: Sardis
- The Faithful Church: Philadelphia
- The Lukewarm Church: Laodicea
- The Need for a New Reformation
Top Highlights
“Believers need to put our energies into ministry that can transform lives, not into laws” (Page 10)
“Consider the chain reaction of forsaking your first love. Fading love for Christ is the forerunner of spiritual apathy. Apathy is the forerunner to loving something else. And love for something else means competing priorities with Christ, which in turn leads to compromise with the world and corruption, resulting ultimately in judgment.” (Page 67)
“We must not be satisfied with cold-hearted, robotic service rendered unto Him. We cannot allow our hearts to cool toward our Savior.” (Page 67)
“Remember the unprecedented comfort of true, biblical assurance” (Page 68)
“The persecution reached a crescendo in 1662, when the English Parliament issued the Act of Uniformity. The decree essentially outlawed anything other than strict Anglican doctrine and practice. That led to a monumental and tragic day in England’s spiritual history: August 24, 1662, commonly known as the Great Ejection. On that day, two thousand Puritan pastors were stripped of their ordination and permanently thrown out of their Anglican churches.” (Page 17)
Product Details
- Title: Christ’s Call to Reform the Church: Timeless Demands From the Lord to His People
- Author: John F. MacArthur
- Publisher: Moody
- Publication Date: 2018
- Pages: 208
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Topic: Christianity & Culture
John MacArthur (b. 1939) is a Calvinist theologian, author, editor, and teacher. He is a popular conference speaker and the president of both The Master's College and The Master's Seminary. He has also served as pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969. Best known for his expository exegesis of the Bible, Logos has collected more than 3,000 of his sermons in the John MacArthur Sermon Archive and offers the complete MacArthur New Testament Commentary.
MacArthur’s pulpit ministry extends around the globe through his media ministry, Grace to You. In addition to producing daily radio programs for nearly 2,000 English and Spanish radio outlets worldwide, Grace to You distributes books, software, and CDs by John MacArthur. He has written hundreds of books and study guides, including the bestselling John MacArthur Essential Bible Study Library and the MacArthur Study Bible. He is also the author of notable titles like Different by Design and Twelve Ordinary Men.