[Living Your Faith] Finney

[1Timothy115]

Finally, I'm getting around to reading 'Living Your Faith', by Charles Finney. It is a good read for all of us who need encouragement, during these times, to "keep himself unspotted from the world." 

[John81]

I've not read that one. Perhaps I should.

Thank you for bring that book up. I'm always looking for something I haven't read yet.

[1Timothy115]

It is a shame the Presbyterians have gone so far from the admonitions Finney gave.

This one is by Whitaker House and it is "updated for the modern reader" and "Words, expressions, and sentence structure have been revised.

I would have preferred the original! But, it was a gift so, I'm out nothing.

It appears to have been printed under many titles. I traced back through and found it originates from Finney's Lessons To Professing Christians which is available. I will purchase the original from "To order this book in Print go to http://truthinheart.com/order.html" you could read it on line but I never liked doing that .

[John81]

Thank you for the additional information. I also prefer reading the books as they were originally written. Even when a book is "updated" with good intentions to our modern language they tend to lose something.

Put a good book in my hands and I'm happy! I can't read them online.

Reading Finney has been one of those things on my "list of things to do" that I've yet to get to. I'm moving this to the top of the list now.

Our pastor brought up the great decline of the Presbyterians just last week in Sunday school. He was, at that time, speaking most to the recent branch of Presbys that decided to fully embrace open homosexuals in all aspects of the church.

It's amazing to read some of the writings of Presbys, Methodists, Baptists and others from two or three hundred years ago and see how they agreed in so many areas, how they boldly proclaimed the clear Gospel message, the way they preached boldly of both heaven and hell, and to "see" how the Holy Ghost worked through them.

What a shame so many have failed to pass on such faith to their progeny and to witness the degenerate state of so many churches today.