Whenever I hear it said that repentance is a condition of eternal salvation, I think of St. Sisoes the Great (d. 429). Sisoes was one of the first great monastics—St. […]

October 11, 2012 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - conference

We have extended the deadline for submitting abstracts for the GES National Conference to November 1st! The theme for the upcoming conference is Free Grace and Sanctification. Don’t be shy, […]

“Faith itself has been taken captive by legalism.” ~Gerhard Forde Ever since Paul’s fiery denouncement of Judaistic law-keeping in Galatians and Romans, the Christian tradition has recognized, if only grudgingly, […]

August 23, 2012 by Shawn Lazar in Blog

Preparations for the 2013 GES National Conference are underway, and we are looking for submissions for workshops and plenary sessions. The theme for the upcoming conference is Free Grace and […]

August 20, 2012 by Shawn Lazar in Blog

Have you ever wondered how some Christians manage to misread Jesus’ clear promise that whoever believes in him for eternal life “shall never perish”? What do people do with those […]

Watchman Nee on Eternal Life and Repentance

I recently came across the following quote from Watchman Nee, the famous Chinese evangelist and martyr. It is taken from a lecture he gave in Shanghai, during the spring of […]

August 10, 2012 by Shawn Lazar in Blog

The ‘culture wars’ are raging all around us, and far too often it seems to be churches who are at the forefront of normalizing sin. For example, the Evangelical Lutheran […]

by SC Lazar One could say, with good reason, that the Free Grace movement represents a shift in focus from a traditional Pauline priority in evangelical theology, to a more […]

One of the most misguided and depressing illustrations of salvation is found in Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, in the Parable of the Onion. It illustrates the deeply legalistic character of […]

July 10, 2012 by Shawn Lazar in Blog

Jul 5 Florida Bible College has produced thousands of Free Grace advocates, including many hundreds of Free Grace pastors. In the early seventies it was the fastest growing Bible college […]

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