By Scott Mosley I was raised in a type of Baptist church that taught a works-plus-faith method of achieving salvation. My father was a ranking minister in this denomination and through self-study began discovering the error of his teaching. About ten years before his resignation, he began teaching his seven children that he had mistakenly

I once read an article entitled “One Verse Evangelism.” The author, Randy Raysbrook, advocated using just one verse when sharing the gospel. He pointed out that when we bombard unbelievers with lots of verses, we end up confusing them. They experience overload and can’t take it all in. Recently I came up with a semi-facetious

Christians love to sing of the worthiness of our Lord Jesus Christ. The hymn Thou Art Worthy is a good example of a praise song. However, we never sing of, and rarely even think about, our own worthiness. And in one sense this is fitting, if we are speaking of being worthy to spend eternity

As we have seen in our previous articles on repentance,1 biblical repentance is not a condition for a person’s eternal salvation. Instead it addresses the need that sinners have (whether saved or unsaved) to repair their relationship to God in order to prevent, or to terminate, His temporal judgment on their sins. The prodigal son,

This article, which has been slightly modified, was printed originally in The Reign of the Servant Kings: A Study of Eternal Security and the Final Significance of Man (Hayesville, NC: Schoettle Publishing Co., 1992), pp. 258–60, and is used by permission. by Jody Dillow According to the Reformed Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints,

By Curt Nelson I couldn’t believe it—I was sitting in my very first class at Western Conservative Baptist Seminary and the professor was teaching some strange doctrine I had never heard before. He was telling us that the only condition for salvation is belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ. I knew immediately what I

As we have seen in our last two articles in Grace in Focus, Luke 15 is not at all about the repentance of unsaved people. On the contrary, the chapter is about the repentance and restoration of Christians who have wandered away from their Shepherd and His flock (15:4-7), from their place and role in

There are two ways to be saved: believe in Christ or keep the commandments. Yes, I mean what I just said. A person could be saved by keeping God’s commandments. The passage we look at today makes this crystal clear. An expert in the Law of Moses came to Jesus to test Him (Luke 10:25)