Grace in Focus – May/June 1992
Lordship Salvation: A Horse With Wheels
By Charlie Bing In a discussion I had with a seminary professor, the Lordship Salvation debate was characterized as follows: “Lordship Salvation puts the cart [works] before the horse [salvation through faith], but you in the Free Grace movement detach the cart from the horse.” Does Free Grace detach works from salvation and faith as
“Soul Salvation,” Part 5 — Suffering Which Results in Abundant Life — 1 Peter 1:9
“Receiving the end of your faith–the salvation of your souls.” This is the most difficult of the passages on “soul salvation” in the Bible, in my opinion. A casual reading of this text seems to suggest that eternal salvation is in view. This is suggested by the fact that the salvation in question is said
Short Sighted Believers (2 Peter 1:9)
For he who lacks these things is short sighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. The writer of this article has been nearsighted since grade school. My 7th grade teacher noticed me squinting as I tried to read the blackboard. She shared this observation with my parents,