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Is Eternal Security Essential to Saving Faith? — The Arminian Question

December 15, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Arminian, eternal life, Eternal Security, Salvation

Do Arminians believe the saving message? Someone asked that question in light of their denial of the doctrine of eternal security. Actually, some Arminians even say that eternal security is positively evil (see here)! What is the saving message? It is Jesus’ promise of eternal life. And this is the promise that He has promised

Knowing God by our Works? 1 John 2:3-11

July 1, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - Assurance, eternal life

By Bob Wilkin, originally published in the Fall 1988 edition of Grace in Focus. “Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments” (1 John 2:3)Recently I was on a radio talk show and a caller asked me to explain how 1 John 2:3 could fit my view that salvation

Faith Taken Captive

September 14, 2012 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - eternal life, gerhard forde, legalism, lutheran, Soteriology

“Faith itself has been taken captive by legalism.” ~Gerhard Forde Ever since Paul’s fiery denouncement of Judaistic law-keeping in Galatians and Romans, the Christian tradition has recognized, if only grudgingly, that legalism is the death-knell of faith in Christ. Even those churches most closely identified with deeply legalistic tendencies (I am thinking of Catholicism and

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

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