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God‘s story is the story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. But it‘s also humanity‘s story, the story of a world fallen and blown apart and of a world reshaped and restored. It‘s the beginning of all beginnings and the end of all ends. Join Brent Siddall and the Rev Ian ‘Reido‘ Reid as they explore God, time, salvation and the cosmos. Explore the stories of Western culture as they pivot and interact with the main narrative of salvation history.
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Wednesday Dec 04, 2024
Sean McGever – Born Again
Wednesday Dec 04, 2024
Wednesday Dec 04, 2024
What did John Wesley and George Whitefield believe about conversion?
Brent talks to Sean McGever, the author of a Lexham Press book called ‘Born Again: The Evangelical Theology of Conversion in John Wesley and George Whitefield’.
Sean is an area director of Young Life in Phoenix, Arizona, and adjunct faculty at Grand Canyon University. He’s the author of several books including ‘Ownership’.
- (0:55) Wesley and Whitefield’s theologies of conversion;
- (1:30) How did Wesley understand conversion?
- (3:30) Wesley and ‘instantaneous’ conversion;
- (8:40) Wesley and Christian perfection;
- (12:30) ‘Backsliding’;
- (15:00) Whitefield’s understanding of conversion;
- (16:00) Whitefield’s experience of conversion;
- (19:00) Whitefield and infant baptism;
- (24:45) Wesley’s and Whitefield’s disagreements;
- (27:00) ‘Modern’ evangelicalism.
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