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Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way is unavailable, but you can change that!

Historically, the church’s ministry of grounding new believers in the essentials of the faith has been known as catechesis—systematic instruction in faith foundations, including what we believe, how we pray and worship, and how we conduct our lives. For most evangelicals today, however, this very idea is alien. Packer and Parrett, concerned for the state of the church, seek to inspire a...

instinctively to some, it is an art that can be mastered to a degree by anyone who can think and speak clearly about things and is concerned to get them across. Paul sees teaching as a spiritual gift (that is, a capacity to serve Christ by some form of Christian expression; see Rom. 12:7), but that does not mean that there is no need to stir up, develop, and hone the skill by reflection, preparation, practice, and submission to competent assessment. The reverse is true, and it is only pride and stubbornness
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