Arthur Pink on Dispensationalism and Free Grace Theology
by Grant Hawley The late A.W. Pink, champion of Reformed Theology, was a Dispensationalist early in his writing career. Pink wrote four books on the subject of premillennialism from a Dispensational premillennial perspective: Redeemer’s Return, The Golden Age: A Treatise on the One Thousand Year Reign of Christ on Earth, The Antichrist, and The Prophetic […]
MacArthur’s Leaky Dispensationalism
by Grant Hawley John MacArthur claims to be a Dispensationalist in both The Gospel According to Jesus (GAJ) and The Gospel According to the Apostles (GAA). There is no doubt that he does hold to the fundamental distinction between the Church and Israel, though he does not always apply this distinction consistently. However, the view […]
Is God an Equal Opportunity Saver?
A person who was reading a 1988 Grace in Focus article on our website entitled, “The Gospel Is Unhindered,” asked a great question. Though he is convinced that God is fair and impartial, he wondered how God could give some more revelation about the message of life than others. He wrote: In Matthew 11:23 Jesus […]
The Fourth Gospel Solves the “Final Justification” Concern
The Fourth Gospel is the only evangelistic book in the Bible(John 20:30-31). Its repeated message is that all who believe in Jesus Christ have everlasting life that can never be lost (cf. John 1:12; 3:16; 5:24; 6:35; 11:26). The writers of the epistles, unlike the Apostle John in the Fourth Gospel, were writing to born-again […]
Follow Up Question about My Article on Lost People
by Bob Wilkin A GIF reader wrote to ask, “Why did you not mention Matt 18:11 & Luke 19:10? Please send me a full explanation.” [Referring to my article, “Who Is the Lost Person According to Scripture?” Grace in Focus Jan/Feb 2011]. Here is what I sent in reply: In both of those verses the […]
Eternal Life in the Bible
by John Kohut1 “You search the [OT] Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life” (John 5:39-40). Introduction In my few short years as a Christian I have struggled with my […]
Justification before God Is by Faith Alone, Completely Apart from Works
(Romans 3:26) By Zane C. Hodges1 The result of the death of Christ on the cross is that God can be righteous and justify the person who has faith in Jesus. The English necessarily obscures an obvious Greek word play, since the Greek words for righteous (dikaion) and justify (dikaiounta) are cognates joined in Paul’s […]
Who Is the Lost Person According to Scripture?
The Answer Is Not As Obvious As It Seems While working on my new book, The Ten Most Misunderstood Words in the Bible, I learned an important lesson. Well, some might say I strayed off the path of orthodoxy again, but I prefer to think of it as finding truth in Scripture that just happens […]
Making a Decision for Jesus?
By Ken White The other day I was pondering the common thinking among Evangelical Christians; specifically about how we believe that when we share our faith with a non-believer we need to push them for a decision or give them a chance to respond to the message of life. Actually, I agree with that belief, […]
The Free Grace Position Should Rightfully Hold Claim to the Title Lordship Salvation
No Lordship Is a Misleading Label For Free Grace Theology Some Lordship preachers call the Free Grace position “no-lordship.” For example, in just three pages John MacArthur rails against our position calling it “no-lordship teaching,” “no-lordship doctrine,” “the no-lordship error,” “the no-lordship definition of faith,” “no-lordship salvation,” and “the no-lordship partisan” (Faith Works, pp. 37-39). […]