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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...

Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals. And they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of Egypt” (Judg. 2:10–12). The text does not only say that this new generation did not know the LORD. It says, further, that they did not know “the work that he had done for Israel.” Moses had instructed the Israelites to teach their children diligently, specifically noting that “your children … have not known or seen” these things (Deut. 11:2). But
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