Hard To Believe: The High Cost And Infinite Value Of Following Jesus

Hard to Believe: The High Cost and Infinite Value of Following Jesus

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Popular perception of Jesus Christ is that of a tempered, genteel man who walked the earth, offering nuggets of wisdom to His followers. But what we sometimes fail to recognize is that although Jesus Christ offered a message of forgiveness, He also spoke challenging, demanding words about what being a follower of Christ requires.

In contrast to the superficiality of much modern Christian teaching, Dr. John MacArthur serves up the unvarnished truth of what Christ taught and lived. In simple, compelling terms, he spells out what is required of those who would follow Him. Going beyond Jesus life to include the crucifixion and resurrection, MacArthur shows readers that Jesus modeled the commitment and loving obedience He requires of us by making the ultimate sacrifice for humankind.

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Customer ReviewsFinally..A Bibical Approach
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I have been a fan of John MacArthur for years. In fact when I became a Christian 24 years ago he was the first preacher I ever heard on the radio. This book examines the hard passages in the Bible. The ones the seeker friendly churches avoid. I agree that without repentance there is no forgiveness of sin. I like John dont believe that repentance is legalism or works..Check out my Christian fiction novel..The Palace Theatre

an easy target to nail
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Are you aware that John MacArthur is a Fundamentalist? Grace Community Church is a member of the IFCA (The Independent Fundamental Churches of America). The IFCA is pre-millennial and dispensational (pre-trib) in their eschatology. And many are hard core Calvinistic in the rest of their doctrines as is Grace Community Church. MacArthur should be more upfront about what his church affiliation is.

Having attended Grace for a couple of years in the early 90s and read several of his books, I was not aware of the IFCA affiliation (maybe I missed the small print). MacArthur comes across as a conservative evangelical who is in opposition to the drift that is going on in evangelicalism. This is misleading. His affiliation is fundamentalist, not evangelical (NAE). It is OK for a fundamentalist to critique evangelicals, but should this not be disclosed?

I thought of this book as just another chapter in his "Gospel According To Jesus" theme that sparked the Lordship debate. It is really sad that so many evangelicals make such easy targets for this kind of book.

Life-changing
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This book blew me away. The author (one of my very favorite preachers) starts with Luke 9:23, in which Jesus is quoted as saying, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me." He then proceeds to tell it like it is, explaining that while salvation is a free gift of God, there is a cost to following Christ - a willingness to deny self and submit to the will of God.

Long over due...
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I truly enjoyed this book. John Macarthur brought to the light so many issues that the church as a whole faces today, issues that need to be addressed with the boldness and confidence that Macarthur approaches his writing of this text.

Excellent tool
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i recommend this book to those who are ministering to friends and families that go to "Six Flags over Jesus" kind of churches. The kind of church that in order to bring people in would put a light show with a rockband on stage, a Starbucks in the entrance and would never ever speak about our sins. MacArthur describes the flaws of these churches and Ministers that would not talk about sin because is offensive to people.Mac Arthur helps the reader realize that sin is offensive to God and that is why we need Jesus as our savior.

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