In this series on the doctrine of repentance, we have reached two fundamental conclusions. These are: (1) that repentance is not in any way a condition for eternal salvation; and (2) repentance is the decision to turn from sin to avoid, or bring to an end, God’s temporal judgment. All the statements about repentance by […]

By Stan Nelson Eternal security is the biblical doctrine that God guarantees our eternal salvation from beginning to end. Therefore, a saved person—someone who has trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ alone for eternal salvation—can never lose that salvation. “Once saved always saved,” is another way of saying it. To many people this is unthinkable. […]

By Scott Mosley I was raised in a type of Baptist church that taught a works-plus-faith method of achieving salvation. My father was a ranking minister in this denomination and through self-study began discovering the error of his teaching. About ten years before his resignation, he began teaching his seven children that he had mistakenly […]

I once read an article entitled “One Verse Evangelism.” The author, Randy Raysbrook, advocated using just one verse when sharing the gospel. He pointed out that when we bombard unbelievers with lots of verses, we end up confusing them. They experience overload and can’t take it all in. Recently I came up with a semi-facetious […]

As we have seen in our previous articles on repentance,1 biblical repentance is not a condition for a person’s eternal salvation. Instead it addresses the need that sinners have (whether saved or unsaved) to repair their relationship to God in order to prevent, or to terminate, His temporal judgment on their sins. The prodigal son, […]

Christians love to sing of the worthiness of our Lord Jesus Christ. The hymn Thou Art Worthy is a good example of a praise song. However, we never sing of, and rarely even think about, our own worthiness. And in one sense this is fitting, if we are speaking of being worthy to spend eternity […]