Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 7066 Few theological debates have generated as much heat within conservative evangelicalism as the question of whether genuine saving faith necessarily includes acknowledgment of Christ’s lordship. On one side stands the position that a Jesus who is not received as Lord has not truly been received at all. On the other stands the concern…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 7065 The term “Lordship salvation” describes the view that genuine saving faith necessarily includes recognition of and submission to Jesus as Lord, not merely reception of Him as Saviour. It entered widespread evangelical debate primarily through John MacArthur’s 1988 book The Gospel According to Jesus, which argued that a generation of evangelicalism had been…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 7064 In 1937, the German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer published Nachfolge, translated into English as The Cost of Discipleship. Writing against a German church that had largely surrendered its integrity in the face of National Socialism, Bonhoeffer drew a distinction that has echoed through Christian thinking ever since. Cheap grace, he argued, is the preaching…
Reading Time: 8 minutesQuestion 60073 In the late spring of 2016, news began spreading through British evangelical and charismatic networks that something unusual was happening on the streets of Reading. The Gate Church, a Baptist congregation led by Yinka Oyekan, had invited American evangelist Tommie Zito to lead a week of street evangelism. The week became four weeks,…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11041 When a scribe asked Jesus which commandment was the greatest, our Lord responded with words that have echoed through the centuries: “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength” (Mark 12:30). This command drawn…