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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...

conversion as a turning from darkness to light,5 converting sinners from the “error of their ways, and turning them to the wisdom of the just,”6 and converting from the power of Satan to God.7 Conversion as a movement from one orientation to its antithesis is the essence of a “turning,” and this is the general usage that Whitefield employs in his operant use of the idea of conversion. While it has been established that Whitefield’s general understanding of conversion is a turn from and to something
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