Michael Reeves

Evangelical Pharisees
Crossway, 2023
By Michael Reeves

WHO: Michael Reeves, president and pastor of theology at Union School of Theology in Brigend and Oxford. 

HE SAYS: “Pharisaism was—and remains—a primarily theological issue.”

THE BIG IDEA: This book challenges Christians to reject legalism that masquerades as devout religion but hides destructive pride, idolatry and even apostasy. 

THE PROGRESSION: This book is short—only five chapters—but it packs a punch in dealing with the issue of hypocrisy in today’s church by examining the ways the Pharisees were mistaken in their understanding of three essential points of the gospel: the Father’s revelation in the Bible, the Son’s redemption in the gospel, and the spirit’s regeneration in our hearts

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