In the multi-author book edited by Marshall Shelley, Growing Your Church Through Training and Motivation, Wayne Jacobsen makes a fascinating comment that directly challenges the Free Grace position: The phone shatters the Monday morning quiet. “Pastor, I’m sorry to bother you on your day off, but I won’t be teaching my children’s class anymore. I

Recently while reading a book by pastor, author, and famed conference speaker John Piper, I came across a super quote by him. Regular readers of this newsletter know that Piper is not a Free Grace proponent. He is a committed Calvinist. He jokingly calls himself “a seven-point Calvinist.” He holds to Lordship Salvation, though you

A person who was reading a 1988 Grace in Focus article on our website entitled, “The Gospel Is Unhindered,” asked a great question. Though he is convinced that God is fair and impartial, he wondered how God could give some more revelation about the message of life than others. He wrote: In Matthew 11:23 Jesus

The Fourth Gospel is the only evangelistic book in the Bible(John 20:30-31). Its repeated message is that all who believe in Jesus Christ have everlasting life that can never be lost (cf. John 1:12; 3:16; 5:24; 6:35; 11:26). The writers of the epistles, unlike the Apostle John in the Fourth Gospel, were writing to born-again

by Bob Wilkin A GIF reader wrote to ask, “Why did you not mention Matt 18:11 & Luke 19:10? Please send me a full explanation.” [Referring to my article, “Who Is the Lost Person According to Scripture?” Grace in Focus Jan/Feb 2011]. Here is what I sent in reply: In both of those verses the