Michael Gowens
Michael Gowens was ordained to the ministry in Texas in 1981. He currently pastors Bethel Primitive Baptist Church in Calabash, North Carolina. He has previously served as church pastor in Smithville, Georgia and Lexington, Kentucky. Gowens has authored over a dozen books, conducted a radio ministry, and traveled moderately among churches in America, the Philippines, and Africa.
Sovereign Grace Publications is a bookseller featuring Primitive Baptist print and audio media, and educational resources.
In Highlights from Christian History, Michael Gowens takes the extremely important, yet frequently daunting, theme of church history and attempts to distill it into crucial, defining events to help believers interpret the contemporary Christian landscape with accuracy. He sketches the key turning points in the 2,000 year history of Christianity in the context of the family known as "Baptists," a generally overlooked and dismissed group, but one that has sought to preserve the purity of the primitive, Apostolic pattern of New Testament church identity.