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…
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 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…