Ebook: Ashamed of the Gospel: When the Church Becomes Like the World

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface to the 2010 Edition; Preface to the 1993 Edition; 1 Christianity on the Down-Grade; 2 The User-Friendly Church; 3 Gimme That Show-Time Religion; 4 All Things to All Men; 5 The Foolishness of God; 6 The Power of God unto Salvation; 7 Paul on Mars' Hill; 8 The Sovereignty of God in Salvation; 9 I Will Build My Church; 10 Interlude; 11 Carried About by Every Wind; 12 Spiritual Adultery; Appendix 1 Spurgeon and the Down-Grade Controversy; Appendix 2 Spurgeon Speaks to Our Time.;In the third edition of this top-selling book, John MacArthur challenges the seeker-sensitive, user-friendly, entertainment-oriented pragmatism that permeates the church today. In the late 1800s, Charles Spurgeon warned that the church was drifting away from the purity of the gospel, candy-coating God's Word rather than boldly proclaiming the truths of Scripture. As a result, Christianity's influence in nineteenth-century England was severely weakened. One hundred years later, John MacArthur, troubled by the seeker-sensitive movement and an emphasis on pragmatism within the church, sounded the.