"A child of God is designed to give the new believer in Jesus Christ a comprehensive teaching about what God has given every believer in His Son Jesus Christ. In six sections you will be acquainted with what salvation is and how you come to Christ, the realities of the new birth and the meaning and importance of baptism in water and baptism in the Spirit. You will learn that your precious salvation also includes being born into the Kingdom of God and the right to use the Name of Jesus, healing and deliverance, and prosperity through the "Blessing of Abraham." Finally the last section will help you to protect what Jesus has given to you as the book covers some basic truths about right and wrong teaching. Jorn Overby is born of Norwegian (Lutheran) missionaries to Bangladesh and spent his childhood on the Indian subcontinent. He received his MD in Divinity at The Free Faculty of Theology in Oslo, Norway in 1981. After studies in English at the University of Oslo he entered into his calling of church building and international missions work in 1983. Having pioneered and pastored a church in Oslo (including a government approved kindergarten and public Christian school as well as an international Bible school) for some 22 years, he has since 2005 concentrated his work solely on the international missions field. He is the director of the missions organization Missions Thrust International, founded in 1990, and has over the last 20 years conducted interdenominational pastors' and leadership seminars as well as evangelistic campaigns in almost 50 nations around the world, predominantly in Asia and Africa. Jorn Overby resides with his wife Borghild in Oslo, Norway. They have two children.
