The Gospel According to Jesus: What Does Jesus Mean When He Says "Follow Me"?

by John MacArthur

This expanded edition of the book that created a controversy because it challenged the "easy believism" that has characterized some quarters of evangelical Christianity deepens the debate over "lordship salvation" and the biblical understanding of faith and works. MacArthur states clearly that there is no eternal life without surrender to the lordship of Christ.

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Paperback, 302 pages

Published March 1st 1994 by Zondervan (first published 1988)

tags: theology, faith, christianity, christian non fiction, religion, evangelism, nonfiction, christian living, discipleship, christian

Book Quotes

“We have no business preaching grace to people who do not understand the implications of God's law. It is meaningless to expound on grace to someone who does not know the divine demand for righteousness. Those who do not even sense their own guilt cannot possibly comprehend God's mercy. You cannot preach a gospel of grace to someone who has not heard that God requires obedience and punishes disobedience.”

― John MacArthur

“salvation is by God’s sovereign grace and grace alone. Nothing a lost, degenerate, spiritually dead sinner can do will in any way contribute to salvation. Saving faith, repentance, commitment, and obedience are all divine works, wrought by the Holy Spirit in the heart of everyone who is saved.”

― John MacArthur

“The great miracle of redemption is not that we accept Christ, but that He accepts us.”

― John MacArthur

“The good news is that although the gate is narrow, it is wide enough to accommodate the chief of sinners (cf. 1 Tim. 1:15).”

― John MacArthur

“Lo que es particularmente interesante acerca de la determinación de Pablo de tener el solo propósito de predicar el evangelio no diluido es su admisión inmediata de que luchaba con los mismos sentimientos de aprensión e intimidación que todos nosotros experimentamos ante nuestro deber de proclamar el evangelio. Al reflexionar sobre su temprano ministerio en Corinto, Pablo lo caracterizó de esta manera: «Y estuve entre vosotros con debilidad, y mucho temor y temblor» (1 Corintios 2.3).”

― John MacArthur

“J. I. Packer has written, “The repentance that Christ requires of His people consists in a settled refusal to set any limit to the claims which He may make on their lives.”17”

― John MacArthur

“To say “Lord, Lord” and then disobey is the moral equivalent of a Judas kiss.”

― John MacArthur

“Al crear un evangelio sintético, facilitan que las iglesias se llenen de personas que no se han arrepentido de sus pecados. En lugar de hacer al mundo como la iglesia, tales esfuerzos tienen solo el éxito de hacer la iglesia más como el mundo. Esta precisamente fue la enseñanza de Jesús en Marcos 4 para evitar esto.”

― John MacArthur

“Romans 6 is Paul’s rebuttal to antinomianism.”

― John MacArthur

“The repentance that Christ requires of His people consists in a settled refusal to set any limit to the claims which He may make on their lives.”17”

― John MacArthur

“false promises of an easy life or indulgence of sins. But in good times, the cost does not seem so high, and people take the name of Christ without undergoing the radical transformation of life that true conversion implies.”

― John MacArthur

John MacArthur

John F. MacArthur, Jr. is a fifth-generation preacher who serves as a pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. He is also a prolific author, conference speaker, and is president of The Master's College and Seminary. MacArthur received a B.A. from Los Angeles Pacific College, his M.Div. from Talbot Theological Seminary, Litt.D. at Grace Graduate School, and D.D. from Talbot Theological Seminary. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, he regularly teaches Expository Preaching at the seminary and frequently speaks in chapel.

MacArthur's pulpit ministry has been extended around the globe through his media ministry, Grace to You, and its satellite offices in Australia, Canada, Europe, India, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Africa. In addition to producing daily radio programs for nearly 2,000 English and Spanish radio outlets worldwide, Grace to You distributes books, software, audiotapes, and CDs by John MacArthur. In thirty-six years of ministry, Grace to You has distributed more than thirteen million CDs and audiotapes.

John Fullerton MacArthur, Jr. is a United States evangelical writer and minister, noted for his radio program entitled Grace to You. MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker and has served as the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969, and as the President of The Master's College (and the related The Master's Seminary) in Santa Clarita, California.

Theologically, MacArthur is a conservative far-right Baptist, a strong proponent of expository preaching, a dispensationalist and a self-described Calvinist. He has been acknowledged by Christianity Today as one of the most influential preachers of his time, and is a frequent guest on Larry King Live as representative of an evangelical Christian perspective.

MacArthur has authored or edited more than 150 books, most notably the MacArthur Study Bible, which has sold more than 1 million copies and received a Gold Medallion Book Award. Other best-selling books include his MacArthur New Testament Commentary Series (more than 1 million copies), Twelve Ordinary Men, (more than 500,000 copies), and the children's book A Faith to Grow On, which garnered an ECPA Christian Book Award.

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