¹ This chapter is largely based on a work previously published as Daniel L. Akin, “Jesus, Evangelicals, and the Bible,” in Defending the Faith, Engaging the Culture: Essays Honoring L. Russ Bush, ed. Bruce A. Little and Mark D. Liederbach (Nashville, TN: B&H, 2011), 9–26.

² For a detailed view of Jesus’s view of biblical authority, see J. Wenham, Christ and the Bible, 3rd ed. (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2009).

³ These are the words of the Wesley Covenant Prayer, which John Wesley took from Richard Alleine.

⁴ A doubleheader is when two teams play two baseball games against each other in the same day.