Christianity Explained

David Pawson discusses the essential questions of the Christian faith. · Is there a God? · Is He a good God? · Was the death of Jesus murder or suicide? · Where is He now? What does saved mean? · How does one become a Christian? · What about the Holy Spirit? · Where does the Church fit in? How will it all end? Review We learn the right prayers, pick up some jargon, but we still don't know whether God is real. Many preachers, intoxicated by theology and yet themselves apparently unsure, fail to teach the simple, basic truths. David Pawson took me with such clarity through all the undergrowth and I soon began to see the light shining ahead. When I was looking in hurt for a real God ... two books quickly brought him into focus .... One of the books was Christianity Explained. David Pawson took me with such clarity through all the undergrowth that I soon began to see the light shining ahead. --Gerald WilliamsA thoroughly readable book offering a condensed and well illustrated survey of basic Christian truths. Such matters of keen debate as believers baptism, being filled with the Holy Spirit, and the Second Coming are faced with refreshing clarity. --Bishop John Perry[David Pawson] is a first rate communicator. --Church Times About the Author David Pawson occupies a key position among British Christian writers. His best known work, Unlocking the Bible, continues to be a worldwide bestseller in print, audio and video formats. Unlocking the Bible and other works such as The Normal Christian Birth have been called Pawson s legacy to the church. Pawson is known for accepting biblical text as the authoritative word of God while explaining its meaning and context in a practical and understandable language. Because he follows the teaching of Scripture where it clashes with church tradition, his books are often controversial. Today David speaks around the world and is received on God TV by millions of viewers in almost every country. Born in 1930, David, determined to become a farmer, began his career with a B.Sc. in agriculture at Durham University in England. He was surprised when God intervened and led him to become a Christian minister. Studying for an advanced degree in theology at Cambridge University, under the influence of liberal educators, Pawson lost his trust in the Bible and very nearly his faith in God. After a short spell in ministry for the Methodist church, he regained his trust in the infallibility and inerrancy of the Bible while a chaplain in the Royal Air Force of Great Britain. During this period he decided to preach the Bible systematically from start to finish. The results among the servicemen surprised both him and them, and confirmed to him Scripture s inspiration. Since then, his preaching has either been Bible study or topical studies based on a detailed, contextual examination of what the Bible says. As pastor of Guildford Baptist Church (the Millmead Centre), Pawson established a reputation among both evangelicals and charismatics as an effective and balanced expositor of the Bible. Under Pawson s ministry, Millmead became the largest Baptist church in Britain. The church was unusual in that attendance was double the membership number; people regularly came from London to hear Pawson preach. Cliff Richard, who had been baptized by Pawson, was a regular attendee. From here his teaching tapes - originally made for the church s sick and elderly members - became popular worldwide. Behind the communist Iron Curtain these tapes struck a chord with the persecuted church. Missionaries and spiritual leaders in far-off corners of the world, without the opportunity to sit under a regular teaching ministry, became a significant audience for Pawson s preaching. In the last forty years literally millions of David s messages on cassette tape (CD, DVD and MP3 today) have been distributed around the world. Pawson left Millmead in 1979 and engaged in an itinerant worldwide Bible tea