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Don’t Be Shy, Apply! 2013 Conference

August 23, 2012 by Shawn Lazar in Blog

Preparations for the 2013 GES National Conference are underway, and we are looking for submissions for workshops and plenary sessions. The theme for the upcoming conference is Free Grace and Sanctification. Don’t be shy, everyone is encouraged to apply! Especially younger voices in the Free Grace movement. Submit an abstract of your proposed paper by

John 10 According to the BRV (Badly Revised Version)

August 20, 2012 by Shawn Lazar in Blog

Have you ever wondered how some Christians manage to misread Jesus’ clear promise that whoever believes in him for eternal life “shall never perish”? What do people do with those verses? What do they think they mean? Avoiding the clear meaning of Jesus’ promise requires some serious scripture twisting. I can imagine a conversation going

Watchman Nee on Eternal Life and Repentance

August 16, 2012 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Culture Wars, eternal life, Free Grace, Soteriology

I recently came across the following quote from Watchman Nee, the famous Chinese evangelist and martyr. It is taken from a lecture he gave in Shanghai, during the spring of 1937, translated in The Gospel of God Vol. 1 (Anaheim, CA: Living Stream Ministry, 1990). It is almost word for word what Zane, Bob, and

What’s Next, Temple Prostitution?

August 10, 2012 by Shawn Lazar in Blog

The ‘culture wars’ are raging all around us, and far too often it seems to be churches who are at the forefront of normalizing sin. For example, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America recently drank the kool-aid and decided to condone homosexual clergy and relationships. In reply, Pastor Peter Speckhard wrote this brilliant piece of

First Thessalonians Overview

From August 8, 2012 by Bob Wilkin in Audio

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The Johannine Priority

July 16, 2012 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - analogy of faith, eternal life, Johannine, Pauline, priority, rewards

by SC Lazar One could say, with good reason, that the Free Grace movement represents a shift in focus from a traditional Pauline priority in evangelical theology, to a more Johannine one. Put differently, if the Reformation began with a rediscovery of the Pauline corpus and its liberating doctrine of justification by faith apart from

And Then the Onion Broke

July 10, 2012 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Soteriology, What's Happening

One of the most misguided and depressing illustrations of salvation is found in Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, in the Parable of the Onion. It illustrates the deeply legalistic character of popular Orthodox soteriology, which, despite its talk of grace, mercy, and love, teaches that our eternal destiny ultimately depends on our works. Indeed, while the

The Restart of Florida Bible College Update

July 10, 2012 by Shawn Lazar in Blog

Jul 5 Florida Bible College has produced thousands of Free Grace advocates, including many hundreds of Free Grace pastors. In the early seventies it was the fastest growing Bible college in America. At its peak it had over 1,500 students and was continuing to grow rapidly. The school went into decline in the mid to

“Easy hike” at Mt. Zion National Park in Utah

July 10, 2012 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - What's Happening

Oct 5 After preaching on Sunday at Upland Bible Church, a great Free Grace church pastored by Dick Olsen, I drove 2 hours to St. George, UT for the Huntsman World Senior Games. On Monday I competed in the 3,000 meters racewalk (1.8 miles) and had a mediocre time. But at least I competed. I

Pastor Rob Bell Releases Unorthodox Book on Hell Today

July 10, 2012 by Bob Wilkin in Blog

Mar 15, 2011 In a book entitled Love Wins: A Book about Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, Pastor Rob Bell expresses some very unorthodox views. Bell is the Pastor of the 10,000 member Mars Hill Bible Church in Grandville, Michigan. He is recognized as one of the leading spokesman