LANNY THOMAS TANTON Editorial Board Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society Dallas, Texas Prologue Is the demand for baptism (i.e., immersion in water) a part of the Gospel? Should every evangelistic sermon and every Gospel tract, in order to be biblical, include a demand for baptism? Should the unbeliever hear in clear and forceful terms

J. Kevin Butcher* I. Introduction By writing The Gospel According to Jesus, in a sense John F. MacArthur has done the evangelical world a favor. He has raised to a level of national consciousness the contemporary confusion in the Church over the most basic issue of all-the nature of the Gospel. MacArthur rightly suggests that

Robert N. Wilkin* I. Introduction There he was again. I’d seen him on telecasts of baseball and football games. Now here he was on a PGA golf tournament telecast somehow repeatedly getting on camera with his rainbow Afro wig and his evangelistic T-shirt. What did he mean with his one word message, REPENT? What did

Paul Holloway* I. Introduction The observations in this article are primarily philosophical. The point is not to overturn the conclusions of those holding Lordship Salvation,1 but to examine certain of the more popular evidences offered in support of these conclusions. While it is true that the issue properly conceived comes down to biblical interpretation, it