Grace in Focus – March/April 2008
We Believe Jesus Is Lord
Lordship Salvation Wrongly Calls the Grace Position “No-Lordship” Lordship Salvation is the view that in order to be born again one must do more than simply believe the facts of the gospel. John MacArthur writes, “The gospel call to faith presupposes that sinners must repent of their sin and yield to Christ’s authority. That, in
Do You Know Our View on Assurance of Salvation?
Pastor Fred Lybrand of Northeast Bible Church in San Antonio pointed out to me several years ago that our Affirmations did not accurately reflect what we believed on assurance (i.e., what we had strongly held and taught for years on assurance). I thanked him for calling that inconsistency to my attention and as a result
Voice from the Past: The Privilege of Suffering with Christ
By C. H. Mackintosh Shall we refuse to suffer from the hand of man with Him who suffered from the hand of God for us? That it is, in a certain sense, a question, is evident, from the Spirit’s constant use of the word if, in connection with it. “If we suffer with Him, we