Lectures to Professing Christians

By Charles Grandison Finney

Book Overview

From the Preface: As these Lectures occupied from an hour and a quarter to an hour and three quarters in the delivery, it will be seen by their length, as here given, that the reporter took down but little more than a full skeleton of them. I have made but very slight alterations and additions in revising them. From experience I have learned that the conversational and condensed style in which they were reported, is more interesting and edifying to common readers, than a more elevated and less laconic style. The author of the Lectures has no claim to literary merit; and, if he knows his own heart, has no desire that the Lectures should be anything else than useful. As my friends wish to have them in a volume, they must take them as they are. CHARLES G. FINNEY (1792-1875) was America's foremost evangelist. Over half a million people were soundly converted under his personal ministry in a day when there was no TV or microphones. He was also an excellent theologian, philosopher, educator, pastor and reformer while professor of theology and president of Oberlin College. Harvard's Perry Miller said, "Finney led America out of the eighteenth century." He is remembered, according to Harvard's W. G. McLoughlin, for his "textbook on how to promote revivals of religion. This book is the perennial classic to which all succeeding generations of revivalists have turned for authority and inspiration." He was also a father to the evangelical and holiness movements.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932370129
• ISBN13: 9781932370126
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Alethea in Heart
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Crystal Christianity: A Vital Guide to Personal Revival

This book will breath revival into any new convert and revive any old one. Without getting stuck in the traditions of men, Charles Finney speaks annointed of the Holy Spirit directly to the heart of the reader. IF YOU CONFESS CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOR; YOU MUST, MUST READ THIS BOOK.

Hold on tight - this book will humble you big-time!

Charles Finney was an evangelist. As such, he saw the necessity to "hang people over hell" so that they saw the gravity of their lost condition. His words were strong. Whole crowds of listeners wept and repented as Finney spoke. This book is written by the master of evangelism, and the words here are no less strong than the words spoken to those in tent meetings long ago. In particular, the chapters on how to see if you are truly saved (versus thinking you are saved when, in fact, you are not) will make you search yourself and cry out to God to establish the right motives, the right spirit within you. Be prayerfully prepared before reading this, that the Lord will prepare your heart to receive what is inside this treasure.