Spiritual Growth

In a time when many Christian authors recommend the claims of Christian faith by descriptions of faith encounters and invitations to "dance with the mystery," Stott, author of many foundational apologetic works, offers a clear and compelling account of the theological basis for his own belief.  He begins by explaining the sense of God's own pursuit of him, providing illustrations from the lives of famous Christians with similar experiences.  He continues with a logical examination of the claims and character of Jesus as seen in Scripture.  The last section discusses the nature and needs of human beings, explaining how those needs are fully met through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.   The book concludes with a simple invitation for the reader to respond to the claims of Christ personally, offering a sample prayer.  Excellent book for Christians who appreciate a more reasoned, thoughtful approach to their faith, as well as for those who are skeptical about Christianity.

In this 2002 Logos Association Best Book award winner, John Stott, one of the outstanding evangelical voices of the last half century, offers in The Incomparable Christ an enriching vision of Jesus that defies measurement.  Stott invites the reader to view Jesus from four perspectives: The Original Jesus: How the New Testament witnesses to Jesus in the Gospels, Acts and the Letters; The Ecclesiastical Jesus: How the church has presented Jesus historically, from Justin Martyr, Benedict and Anselm, to Thomas à Kempis, Martin Luther and Thomas Jefferson, to Gustavo Guitiérrez, N. T. Wright, and the Edinburgh and Lausanne missionary confessions of the twentieth century; The Influential Jesus: How people from St. Francis to Tolstoy, from Gandhi to Roland Allen, from Father Damien to William Wilberforce have taken inspiration from him; The Eternal Jesus: How he continually challenges today's men and women through ten visions from the book of Revelation.  This is the Jesus who is like no other--worthy of our worship, our confession and our obedience as we follow him into the future.