Now that I have your attention with the title, I'll confess that this isn't exactly a new book, but instead a new translation.

We recently posted the simplified Chinese version (PDF) of Finally Alive on our Chinese language site, kemushen.org. After months of work, we're very excited to make this content available to the nearly 500 million online Chinese readers around the world (infographic).

This language has been high on our list of priorities for the last few years. The church in China is seeing great opportunities, but not without substantial challenges. Legal print publishing in the Mainland has potential but continues to be very difficult.

John Piper originally wrote Finally Alive primarily with the Western church in mind:

The broadly defined evangelical church as a whole in America and the West in general is apparently not very unlike the world. It goes to church on Sunday and has a veneer of religion, but its religion is basically an add-on to the same way of life the world lives, not a transforming power. (Finally Alive, 13)

As most of us know, this issue is universal. Around the world, those who identify themselves as Christian believers are often lacking the experience of true regeneration, along with the evidence that accompanies it. This is true in the West, as well as in South America, Africa, and Asia.

In Finally Alive, Piper answers the questions,

• What is the new birth?
• Why is the new birth necessary?
• What does God do in regeneration?
• What did he do in history to make it possible?
• What effects does the new birth have?

Please help us spread the word about this important content now available in Chinese. And join us in praying that God will, in his mercy, use it to lead readers to eternal life in him.