No doubt I have significant differences with John Stott's theology on several points, but not much of that came up in this book though enough did for me to make it a four star rather than the five that it certainly was on the whole (e.g. use of images in worship, images of hell being symbolic rather than literal in Bible, and themes of limited atonement). Thankfully his seeming openness to an annihilation view of hell did not come out (I have read quotes about this tentative position from his contribution in Evangelical Essentials: A Liberal-Evangelical Dialogue (InterVarsity, 1988).

With all that behind, let me say I was very much helped by this book. His approach at evangelizing someone, his focus on true repentance and faith in Christ and his exemplary reasoning with the Scripture in an evangelistic way highly commends this book. It takes the reader (listener!) wire to wire from considering Christ to trusting Christ to living for Christ. I was also very pleased with his focus on the essential nature of being rooted in a local church after conversion. I plan to read it some time as well. This was a great listen because it is very equipping for communicating the truth to unbelievers as well as new believers.