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Born Again: The Evangelical Theology of Conversion in John Wesley and George Whitefield is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Christian life is a life of growth. The gospel message is simple but not simplistic. Learning the gospel and its implications is a lifelong process, but modern evangelicals are often too focused on the moment of conversion while ignoring the ongoing work of sanctification. For John Wesley and George Whitefield, justification and sanctification were inseparable. In Born Again, Sean McGever...

non-entertainment, or nurture, of God’s presence. A true convert and one seeking entire sanctification must not do anything which may disappoint the Holy Spirit, so as not to “drive him from us.”185 The true convert was expected to show outward holiness in their actions and works. Wesley distinguished between the instantaneous beginning of faith (instantaneous conversion) and the subsequent continuance, increase, and growth of faith in Wesley’s letter to John Smith on September 28, 1745.186 Similarly,
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