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The Death/Life Option

November 1, 1991 by Zane Hodges in Grace in Focus Articles

In Romans 8:13 Paul offers his Christian readers a significant option. He writes: For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. This may clearly be called a death/life option. But just what is Paul

Saving Faith and Apostasy: Do Believers Ever Stop Believing?

November 1, 1991 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

Apostasy is a renunciation of one’s faith. It is not strictly a religious term. For example, since Ronald Reagan is a former Democrat, he is an apostate in terms of his former political beliefs. The question is, do genuine Christians ever stop believing in Christ? The answer is, yes. The Scriptures give a number of

Grace Churches Alert

November 1, 1991 by GES Webmaster in Grace in Focus Articles

Is your church one that promotes the Free Grace Gospel? If so, you could help a lot of people by asking your pastor to jot us a note indicating his agreement with our doctrinal position. So far only a small number of pastors have contacted us. Yet we receive calls and letters regularly from people

If It’s Free, Why Would Anyone Need to Strive to Enter? – Luke 13:24

November 1, 1991 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. We who believe in the freeness of the Gospel may be uncomfortable with this verse. At least we should be unless we’ve considered carefully what it is saying. After all, if salvation is

Grace in the Old Testament

October 1, 1991 by Art Farstad in Grace in Focus Articles

Many people have the erroneous notion that the OT is all law and the NT is all grace. Some liberals even maintain that the God of the OT is harsh and vindictive but the God of the NT is tender and forgiving. Some people (not liberals, but very misinformed) think that OT believers were saved

Lordship Salvation’s Good Intentions Are Not Enough

October 1, 1991 by GES Webmaster in Grace in Focus Articles

By Charlie Bing I came close to calling this article, “Why I Could Almost Believe in Lordship Salvation.” What appeals to me about the Lordship Salvation position is that it may often be motivated by good intentions to solve a very real problem in the church. Lordship Salvation is concerned with the serious problem of

The So-Called So-Called Brother – 1 Corinthians 5:11

October 1, 1991 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he should be an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler–not even to eat with such a one. (NASV) But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with

A Return to Rome: Lordship Salvation’s Doctrine of Faith

September 1, 1991 by GES Webmaster in Journal Articles

Paul Holloway* I. Introduction John MacArthur’s The Gospel According to Jesus has rekindled the debate long smoldering in Evangelical circles over Lordship Salvation.1 At the center of this debate is the question of the nature of saving faith: whether it entails a response of the human will to the lordship of Christ. Dr. MacArthur has

A Voice from the Past: The Knowledge Of Salvation

September 1, 1991 by GES Webmaster in Journal Articles

This excerpt is from the well-known and widely blessed Gospel booklet “Safety, Certainty, and Enjoyment.” The complete booklet is available from Bible Truth Publishers of Addison, Illinois. George Cutting1 Before you turn to the verse which I shall ask you very carefully to look at, which speaks of how a believer is to know that

Calvinism Ex Cathedra: A Review Of John H. Gerstner’s Wrongly Dividing The Word Of Truth: A Critique Of Dispensationalism

September 1, 1991 by Zane Hodges in Journal Articles

John H. Gerstner, Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth: A Critique of Dispensationalism (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1991), xii+ 276 pp. In this review article, Hodges has followed Gerstner’s policy of capitalizing Dispensationalism (the theology) and lower-casing dispensationalists (its adherents). Ed. John H. Gerstner is a well-known and prolific writer/theologian from the