Let me tell you about...MY GOD: An Original Devotional Work Inspired by the Style and Voice of George Whitefield (Paperback)

What if George Whitefield could tell you about his God - in his own voice from his own heart? Not the Whitefield of the history books - the celebrity preacher the transatlantic phenomenon the man who drew crowds of twenty thousand in open fields. The real Whitefield. The one who wept when he preached who crossed the Atlantic thirteen times because he could not stop who died in Newburyport with a candle burning to nothing in his hand - still preaching to the end. This is that Whitefield. He does not pull up a chair. He mounts a barrel and locks eyes with you across a crowd and tells you things you may not have wanted to hear - with an urgency that does not soften for the comfort of the hearer. Because he has seen something and he cannot be quiet about it. In these pages Whitefield speaks about the radical diagnosis - not that men are sick but that they are dead and that nothing short of the new birth will do. He speaks about the almost Christian that most dangerous of all spiritual conditions - close enough to feel safe far enough to be lost. About the God who chooses and why that doctrine filled him with gratitude rather than dread. About the blood that actually accomplishes what it sets out to do. About the fields and the crowds and the open-air pulpit that became his cathedral - and about the orphans of Georgia whose care occupied him to his dying day. He also speaks about heaven and hell - both - with the seriousness both demand and the joy that one of them rightly produces. And about Wesley his great friend and greatest theological opponent with whom he disagreed without bitterness and loved without reserve. What readers will find inside: The new birth - why religion without regeneration is not enough The almost Christian - the most dangerous place to be Election and grace - the doctrine that humbled and liberated him The atonement - blood that accomplishes not merely offers The fields as cathedral - open-air preaching and the Great Awakening Justification - clothed in a righteousness not his own Perseverance - the comfort of a grace that does not let go Heaven and hell - preached with urgency and without apology The orphan house - a God who sends His people to the poor This book is for every reader who suspects the comfortable version of Christianity they have been offered is not quite the real thing. For those who want to be awakened not merely encouraged. For anyone willing to stand in the field and hear what Whitefield has been trying to say since he was twenty-one years old. He wept when he preached. Perhaps you will understand why. This book is an original devotional work authored by R. K. Baldwin and written in a literary voice inspired by the preaching and theology of George Whitefield. It is not a historical transcript dictation or previously unpublished work by George Whitefield. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by any George Whitefield estate trust or rights holder. All content is original to this work. These are historically inspired imagined devotional conversations and the first-person voice is a literary device.