Bible Doctrines

Excellent for new converts.

This book by P. C. Nelson is excellent for Sunday School. We teach this to our New Comers and New Converts Class. It's a great way to teach or re-teach the fundamental truths in which we believe. Since many of our congregations' members go from conversion to Sunday School teachers in such a short period of time, this is a must read, must teach kind of book!!

The author was one "ten most intelligent men of the USA" during his lifetime. He was a Bilbe and language scholar speaking more than twenty-five languages. He was president of a Bible College. He presents sixteen doctrines essential to the Christian faith and Pentecostals in a clear concise manner using Scripture as his support and explaining his conclusions. These sixteen points were adopted as the Tenets of Faith for the Assemblies of God USA which he wrote for the convention in 1914. Any minister in the Assemblies would do well to read and study this book.

This timeless classic simplifies the most important foundational teachings of biblical Christianity. Although this book was adopted as the official doctrinal book of the Assemblies of God, it would also be useful to all Christians who believe the Word of God to be the final authority on all teaching, and is unchanging in its application to the reader's life. I would particularly recommend this book as a guideline to prioritizing issues of biblical importance in Pentecostal and Charismatic circles. Gaining an understanding of the material written in this book with help you avoid many of the doctrinal pitfalls others have fallen prey to.

P.C. Nelson has done a wonderful job of explaining the doctrine of the Assemblies of God in an easy to understand and thin book. I really recomend this book to A/G ministers and laymen.