Audiobooks by J. D. Greear

O evangelho acima de tudo: A verdadeira fonte para a renovação da igreja

Tempos que mudam rapidamente parecem exigir dos líderes cristãos novas estratégias. Novas circunstâncias parecem demandar novas formas de atrair as pessoas à igreja. Que ações se fazem necessárias para manter a relevância em meio a um mundo de mudanças? A resposta de J. D. Greear é simples: voltar ao básico. O evangelho — sim, ele mesmo — é mais que suficiente para que a igreja assuma seu papel transformador na sociedade. Se o evangelho não está acima de tudo, perde seu poder para nos transformar, transformar nossa família, nosso bairro, nosso ambiente de trabalho e nosso mundo. Necessitamos do poder do evangelho — o poder bruto de Deus — para transformar cada área de nossa vida. Em O evangelho acima de tudo, J. D. Greear analisa, com a necessária veemência, como coisas secundárias e até mesmo imprescindíveis têm tomado o lugar do evangelho como ponto focal da igreja.

J. D. Greear (Author), Camilo Brunelli (Narrator)

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Not God Enough: Why Your Small God Leads to Big Problems

Your God is too small.We like God small. We prefer a God who is safe, domesticated, who thinks like we think, likes what we like, and whom we can manage, predict, and control. A small God is convenient. Practical. Manageable.The truth: God is big. Bigger than big. Bigger than all the words we use to say big.Ironically, many today seem turned off by the concept of an awesome, terrifyingly great God. We assume that a God you would need to fear is guilty of some kind of fault. For us, thinking of God as so infinitely greater and wiser than we are and who would cause us to tremble in his presence is a leftover relic from an oppressive, archaic view of religion.But what if this small version of God we've created is holding us back from the greatest experience of our lives-from genuine, confident, world-transforming faith?In Not God Enough, J. D. reveals how to discover a God who is big enough to handle your questions, doubts, and fears;is not silent;is worthy of worship;wants to take you from boring to bold in your faith;has a purpose and mission for you on earth; andis pursuing you right now.God is not just a slightly better, slightly smarter version of you. God is infinite and glorious, and an encounter with him won't just change the way you think about your faith. It'll change your entire life.

J. D. Greear (Author), Chris Abell (Narrator)

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Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send

J. D. Greear, J.D. Greear, Maurice England (Author), Maurice England (Narrator)

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Jesus, Continued: Why the Spirit Inside You is Better than Jesus Beside You

Why does God often feel more like a doctrine we know about than a Person we know? Why do so many of us think of Christianity as a lifestyle to which we conform, rather than a God with whom we commune? Jesus gave his disciples the audacious promise that it was to their advantage he go back to heaven because the Holy Spirit could then come to live inside of them. How many of us consider our connection to the Holy Spirit so strong and so real that we would call his presence in us better than Jesus beside us? Author J.D. Greear asks those questions because throughout his Christian life he felt disconnected to God and unsure about how to interact with him. Although he had learned a lot of truths about God, he sensed very little relationship with him—at least, not the dynamic, two-way relationship he really wanted. He tried to have such a relationship, but all of God’s work seemed stockpiled in the past: he created the world, died on a cross, and left a Bible. God seemed like a busy teacher who had given an assignment and then stepped out of the room, leaving students to get the work done on their own. But Greear discovered it doesn’t have to be like that. Not at all. In clear and practical language, he explains how any follower of Jesus can have a satisfying, powerful relationship with God through the Holy Spirit. While many books about the Holy Spirit get stuck in secondary questions that divide believers, The God Factor focuses on a central, truth that unites us: God wants to be vitally present in and through his people. This truth, though central, is sadly neglected. This generation of Christians—mission-driven but burned out, weary, and longing for joy—desperately needs to recover the dynamic presence of God. And the good news is that God wants us to have exactly that.

J. D. Greear, J.D. Greear, Maurice England (Author), Maurice England (Narrator)

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Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved

“If there were a Guinness Book of World Records entry for ‘amount of times having prayed the sinner’s prayer,’ I’m pretty sure I’d be a top contender,” says pastor and author J. D. Greear. He struggled for many years to gain an assurance of salvation and eventually learned he was not alone. “Lack of assurance” is epidemic among evangelical Christians. In Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart, J. D. shows that faulty ways of present- ing the gospel are a leading source of the confusion. Our presentations may not be heretical, but they are sometimes misleading. The idea of “asking Jesus into your heart” or “giving your life to Jesus” often gives false assurance to those who are not saved—and keeps those who genuinely are saved from fully embracing that reality. Greear unpacks the doctrine of assurance, showing that salvation is a posture we take to the promise of God in Christ, a posture that begins at a certain point and is maintained for the rest of our lives. He also answers the tough questions about assurance: What exactly is faith? What is repentance? Why are there so many warnings that seem to imply we can lose our salvation?

J. D. Greear (Author), Tom Parks (Narrator)

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