No Lordship Is a Misleading Label For Free Grace Theology Some Lordship preachers call the Free Grace position “no-lordship.” For example, in just three pages John MacArthur rails against our position calling it “no-lordship teaching,” “no-lordship doctrine,” “the no-lordship error,” “the no-lordship definition of faith,” “no-lordship salvation,” and “the no-lordship partisan” (Faith Works, pp. 37-39).

This article was originally published in the GES newsletter in April of 1991. Have you ever heard or had a conversation something like the following? “Are you a Christian?” “Well of course I’m a Christian! Do you think I’m a heathen? I’m an American!” “Well, I mean do you believe…” “I believe in God.” “But

This article was section III of the author’s Spring 2010 Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society article entitled, “John Piper’s Diminished Doctrine of Justification and Assurance.” Piper Identifies Assurance as Major Spiritual Problem in His Church Piper has identified the issue of assurance as a major spiritual problem among his parishioners. He stated in his