The Most Misused Verses in the Bible: Surprising Ways God's Word Is Misunderstood

by Eric J. Bargerhuff

Overview

High-Interest Guide Sure to Spark Curiosity and Conversation

A surprising number of well-known Bible verses are commonly misused and misunderstood. Whether intentionally or not, people take important verses out of context, and pastor and Bible scholar Eric J. Bargerhuff has seen the effects: confusion, faulty decisions, sin being dismissed, and more. With a deft touch, he helps readers understand and apply sound principles of interpretation and application of twenty familiar verses. This concise high-interest approach appeals to the curious as well as readers concerned about incorrect theology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441270078
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	1,085,451
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Eric J. Bargerhuff, PhD, has served in pastoral ministry in churches in Ohio, Illinois, and Florida. He received his doctorate in biblical and systematic theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. His passion is to write systematic and practical theology for the purposes of spiritual growth and reform in the church. He is a member of the Society for the Advancement of Ecclesial Theology (SAET) and the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS).

His first publication, Love that Rescues: God's Fatherly Love in the Practice of Church Discipline, explores the grace and fatherly love of God that should be embodied in a church's efforts to restore a brother or sister in Christ who has gone astray.

Eric and his family presently live in Palm Harbor, Florida.