How much time would it take you to make the promise of everlasting life clear to a Lordship Salvation friend

COP is an easy way to remember the Lordship Salvation understanding of what one must do to have everlasting life. COP = Commitment to obey Christ, followed by initial Obedience […]

This approach is essentially a soft form of Lordship Salvation

Shawn found out that one of my former seminary professors was speaking at a church near DFW airport. I went to the church’s website and found out that they have […]

Do You Know What It Means to

Yesterday I was reading an author who identifies himself as a Free Grace proponent. He was talking about what saving faith is. He said that some Free Grace people say […]

How can we harmonize passages that call for us to love God with all our being with passages that say that whoever simply believe in Jesus has everlasting life_

A. S., a reader, asks this fascinating question: In relation to Matthew 22:37 and John 3:16—in your own understanding what is the right interpretation of the two verses in relation […]

When the Samaritans called Jesus the “Savior of the World” in John 4:42, did that mean that everyone gets saved? Jesus has taken care of the sin problem at Calvary. […]

Does it confuse people if we identify the One we believe in for everlasting life as Jesus who died on the cross for our sins and rose bodily from the dead_

AF wrote to me wondering if I present two different and contradictory understandings of what it means to believe in Jesus: Youi wrote: So, what does it mean to “believe […]

October 14, 2020     John 11:26, John 3:16

Today, Bob and Shawn discuss why John 3:16 and John 11:26 refer to point-in-time belief. They compare other passages in Scripture that prove point-in-time events occurred many times. As we […]

If you lack assurance of your salvation, and yet you are trusting in Christ’s death and resurrection, how can you get assurance_

The question I am sharing today is one many people have. What does a person do who is trusting in Christ’s death and resurrection, yet lacks assurance? Lauri writes: I […]

If a person professes to have once believed in Christ, but he now says he no longer believes in Him, is he born again_

Here is a very practical question from a reader named Brian: I have a cousin who was raised in a Christian home. He attended a Christian high school, and when […]

Is John’s Gospel Misleading People When It Says that the Only Condition of Everlasting Life Is Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ_

Here is a nice question from a podcast/radio listener named J. P. that illustrates the importance of clear thinking in evangelism: I try to talk to my pastor about John’s […]

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