Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07013 The question of how a person is saved is the most urgent question any human being can face, and the good news of the gospel is that Scripture answers it with remarkable clarity. God has not hidden the way of salvation. The provision is real, the invitation is genuine, and the terms are…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07017 Regeneration is the miracle at the heart of conversion. It is what makes the entire Christian life possible. Without it, there is no genuine faith, no real repentance, no lasting change, and no spiritual perception of God. It is the point at which God acts to bring spiritually dead people to spiritual life,…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07014 Justification is the word the New Testament uses to describe what happens legally and relationally when a sinner is accepted before God. It is not the whole of salvation, but it is its judicial heart. Getting a clear understanding of it matters enormously, because what you believe about justification determines what you believe…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07027 Salvation is described in the New Testament through a range of images, each of which captures a different dimension of what God has done for those who trust in Christ. Justification addresses legal standing. Redemption addresses bondage and purchase. Reconciliation addresses a broken relationship. Adoption addresses identity and belonging. It answers a question…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07025 This question sits at the very heart of the Protestant Reformation, and it is not merely a historical or academic debate. How a person answers it shapes how they understand the gospel, how they relate to God, and what they think Christian discipleship actually involves. The apparent tension in the New Testament between…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07023 Baptism is a significant and serious act of Christian obedience. It is also one of the most debated subjects in Christian theology, with genuine disagreement not just about its mode but about what it actually does. The question of whether baptism is necessary for salvation goes to the heart of the gospel itself:…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07024 The phrase “sinner’s prayer” is familiar in evangelical Christianity and has been used in countless evangelistic contexts, from crusades to personal conversations. The term itself does not appear in Scripture, and there is no prescribed formula anywhere in the New Testament that functions as a verbal key to salvation. Understanding what the sinner’s…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion Q07090 Every pastor encounters this pastoral challenge eventually: someone who has walked to the front of a church, raised a hand, prayed a sinner’s prayer, or signed a decision card on multiple occasions, yet whose life shows no discernible evidence that anything real happened. The temptation is to call them forward again, to repeat…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07032 The phrase ordo salutis is Latin for “order of salvation,” and it refers to the logical sequence of the various elements involved in a person coming to salvation and continuing in the Christian life. It is a theological framework rather than a biblical phrase, but the question it addresses is thoroughly biblical: does…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 7068 The Free Grace movement is a strand of evangelical theology arguing that saving faith consists simply in believing God’s promise of eternal life to the one who trusts in Christ, with repentance, commitment to discipleship, and acknowledgment of Christ’s lordship all understood as belonging to sanctification rather than to justification. It is not…