Several preliminary observations before we answer the question of this article. First, unbelievers can learn about Jesus. That is, they can be involved in following Jesus. Unbelievers can go to church, Sunday school, home Bible studies. They can even go to Bible college or seminary. We would be foolish to require that someone be

Recently I received this email suggestion: The Gospel of John says that many of his disciples went back and walked with Him no more (John 6:66). I find it informative that these people walked with Him no more. You would almost consider them apostates, those who never were really saved to begin with. But John

Do you know who prayed the longest prayer in the Bible? Jesus. On the night of His betrayal. You find His prayer in John 17. Jesus and the eleven had just left the Last Supper (John 14:31) and were on their way to the Garden of Gethsemane (John 18:1). As they were walking Jesus prayed:

“Enjoy your time with them now, because these years won’t last long.” Older people say that to me when I’m at the grocery store with my three kids and I have a haggard look on my face. “You don’t realize it now,” they’ll say, “but these are the best years of your life. They grow

I received a very encouraging email from South Korea, the site of the winter Olympics this year. My name is DS and I currently reside in Korea. I have known GES since 2003 and I have been an avid reader of all the articles in GES. When I was struggling with my assurance of salvation and

What are the big questions most people are asking? What are they most concerned about? Given my job, I have a biased opinion. Grace Evangelical Society has a razor sharp focus on two issues: the promise of eternal life and assurance of salvation. People who contact GES are very interested in and have many questions

“And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ” (Eph 4:11-12). What is your pastor’s main job? Paul hints at the answer in Eph

How can you exchange the world’s anxiety for God’s peace? R.B. Thieme, Jr. called it the faith-rest technique (see here), but he invented the name, not the practice itself. The method is simple. In the face of trouble, you put your faith in God. More specifically, you put your faith in a Bible promise or

I always hear people say that Old Testament believers didn’t go straight to Heaven when they died. That they had to wait for Jesus to die on the cross and come and free them to take them to Heaven. Like they were “on hold.” But that leads me to think that regeneration didn’t happen until the church