Sean McGever – Born Again
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What did John Wesley and George Whitefield believe about conversion?
Brent talks to Sean McGever, the author of a Lexham Press book called ‘Born Again: The Evangelical Theology of Conversion in John Wesley and George Whitefield’.
Sean is an area director of Young Life in Phoenix, Arizona, and adjunct faculty at Grand Canyon University. He’s the author of several books including ‘Ownership’.
- (0:55) Wesley and Whitefield’s theologies of conversion;
- (1:30) How did Wesley understand conversion?
- (3:30) Wesley and ‘instantaneous’ conversion;
- (8:40) Wesley and Christian perfection;
- (12:30) ‘Backsliding’;
- (15:00) Whitefield’s understanding of conversion;
- (16:00) Whitefield’s experience of conversion;
- (19:00) Whitefield and infant baptism;
- (24:45) Wesley’s and Whitefield’s disagreements;
- (27:00) ‘Modern’ evangelicalism.
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