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Real Christianity: Discerning True and False Faith (Classics of Faith and Devotion)

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I needed a reliable book to help me discern what true faith is like compared to false. This book is all a person needs who has the same goal. I doubt nominal Christians will even bother to consider reading material by an Christian author so gifted in spiritual discernment as Wilberforce.

Besides helping true Christians to discern themselves from false ones, this book brings much needed enlightenment to the seriousness of real Christianity.

Read this expecting to be challenged to clean up your life!

I bought this book by accident. I was in a bookstore looking for another book, but ended up walking out with Wilberforce's enduring classic. I first encountered Wilberforce when reading a biography of the American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Since that time I have had the opportunity to read the life story of the English Great Emancipator himself. Wilberforce may have been small and frail in physical stature but his moral stature is that of a giant. For decades, Wilberforce, an MP in the British Parliament, labored toward two great ends: 1. To abolish the slave trade and slavery itself within Great Britain. 2. To change the decadent and decaying moral culture of his homeland. Real Christianity was written toward goal #2. On reading Real Christianity it is easy to see why it remained an English bestseller for 50 years! Wilberforce's writing is like the man himself. Compassionate, logical, persuasive, determined, humorous, and fair-minded.