Green Pastures
Green Pastures: Ordinary Means of Grace for Ordinary Believers
“This book will be for your soul what the diamond ring hidden inside a velvet presentation box is to a bride-to-be: pure delight. In simple, well-illustrated language, Pastor Davidson teaches us how the covenant Lord blesses His people with lavish gifts of grace. Pastors should distribute Green Pastures to their people, and God’s people need to wonder and delight in its truths. I wish that I had read this book forty years ago!” James M. Renihan
What is This Book About?
This new and revised edition of Davidson’s pastoral study “Green Pastures” gets to the heart of how God works in the world – it discusses the ordinary means of grace by which God will save and sanctify His church. You may have never heard the phrase “means of grace” before, but it is deeply important that you not only know its meaning, but also understand its implications for us today. The means of grace lie at the heart of reformed doctrine, they are taught, exemplified and present throughout the scriptures, and without them the Christian is greatly deprived.
So, what are means of grace? And why are they important? In “Green Pastures: Ordinary Means of Grace for Ordinary Believers” J. Ryan Davidson show us why God has not just promised that He will build His kingdom, but also how he will build His kingdom. The ways by which he will do it are called “means of grace” because they are the means or tools by which God will save, sanctify, edify and preserve his people. This book is for every person that prays, takes the Lord’s Supper, and preaches or listens to preaching – in other words, it is for every Christian!
Read this book and be emboldened in God and His glorious Word of grace (Acts 20:32).
“In a day when church growth works line the shelves of bookstores and Amazon warehouses, and in a time when many dear believers are looking for everything in their church besides the ordinary means, the call of the Scriptures is to be ever-reforming according to biblical patterns of belief and worship. What an opportunity the church has, to assemble with the primacy placed on the ordinary channels of grace. For many pastors, the idea of numerical growth… by cutting corners can be so tempting, however, the flock of the Lord needs to be fed in the green pastures that he has ordained. Let us run then to his pastures… and to him.” – J. Ryan Davidson, From the Preface
