Current beliefs evaluated through historical analysis
Restored Christianity challenges readers, believers and nonbelievers alike, to look deeper into the foundations of the Christian faith in order to evaluate commonly held present-day beliefs in light of the earliest known understanding of Christianity's original premises, toward the goal of restoring Christianity to its roots.  The book is divided into topics crucial to understanding Christian beliefs, including how we read the Bible, how we perceive God, the application of logic and reason, the meaning of faith, suffering, sovereignty, freedom, reliance on God, personal transformation, the purpose of life, and the meaning of prayer.  Each topic is addressed from the perspective of current beliefs, followed by an historical analysis of the earliest known writings of Christianity, concluding with an application of the historical perspective to restore beliefs to their origins.  

Exploring the Difficult Questions - Finding Answers

Why is there suffering?
Is God in control?
What is our purpose?
What good does it do to pray?
How can I know what God's will is?
Do I just need to try harder?
Is the Bible true?
Do we have to wait for heaven to have joy?
EXPLORE A DEEPER RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST

Planting Seeds for New Growth

According to William Houser, Ph.D., author of Who Is This Jesus Christ?, "Restored Christianity may be likened to a purifying process, where the authors, like patient jewelers, heat and purify their material until all the dross has been removed and the simple precious metal remains. Of course, their project and scope is giant in size: finding the elemental core of the Holy Scriptures after separating out centuries of wrongful, if well-intentioned, interpretations which have reduced the pure and simple content of God’s Word and Will. The authors work in tandem, one dealing with the linguistic and historic roots of the original Bible writings, and the other setting them in a context of Christian living for today. The effort works, and is gratifyingly successful in helping the earnest reader understand God’s intentions, His plans and hopes, and greatest of all, His unconditional love for humankind represented forever by the incarnation and sacrifice of His own Son, Jesus Christ. This is not a Reformed work, or a Protestant work, or a Catholic work, this is a Christian work and is refreshingly focused on the Gospel basics that ignited the world when the Good News was first preached in its truest and most earnest forms to a desperate world." 

Read the book and grow. ​​

 “The serious reader…will be led on a theological and historical journey that will both inform and sharpen the perspective for participating in what I'm sure will be one of the major conversations of the twenty-first century. It is an excellent and systematic treatment of central areas of theological concern – a unique blending of rigorous historical/critical scholarship, careful and penetrating analysis of theological themes and concepts, and creative application to contemporary human experience through a wholesome partnership of theology, philosophy, and psychology. A careful and attentive reader will be rewarded with a new window, or “lens,” through which to see and think about concepts that have been a part of religious life for a long time. A reader who has not been around church much will find a challengingly and refreshingly sensible presentation of Christian faith with an appeal not unlike C. S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity.” - Dr. Colin Harris, Professor Emeritus of Religion 
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