I asked my pastor for a good book on the basics of Christian conversion and he handed me William Barclay’s little book Turning to God.

It’s a small book, with just 103 pages of reasonable size text. It’s not complex. The vocabulary is straightforward. I wouldn’t recommend it for speed reading, but you don’t need any strong theological background to follow the discussion.

Barclay works from the conversion stories and evangelistic methods presented in the book of Acts to develop both an understanding of what conversion means and the approaches to evangelization that will produce conversion.

This is an exceptionally good book. It appears to be out of print, but there are quite a number of used copies available online.

I give this a definite five bright stars!