Pulpit Magazine

(By Nathan Busenitz) 
It has been an exciting week of posts focusing on a reformed soteriology (”lordship salvation”). Our series on this incredibly important topic will continue in two weeks, beginning Monday, October 9. This next week we will be posting on several miscellaneous topics which you won’t want to miss.
But, before we take a short […]

(By John MacArthur) 
Those who teach that repentance is extraneous to saving faith are forced to make a firm but unbiblical distinction between salvation and discipleship. This dichotomy, like that of the carnal/spiritual Christian, sets up two classes of Christians: believers only and true disciples. Most who hold this position discard the evangelistic intent of virtually every […]

(By John MacArthur) 
Let’s look a little more closely at the dispensationalist tendency to make unwarranted contrasts between related or parallel truths (see yesterday’s post for the background on this). It is important that we delineate carefully between essentially different biblical axioms (2 Tim. 2:15). But it is also possible to go overboard. The unbridled zeal […]

(By John MacArthur) 
This article first appeared in the Nov/Dec 2003 issue of Pulpit Magazine. In light of our current series, it provides helpful background to the lordship salvation issue. 
It has now been 15 years since The Gospel According to Jesus was first published and the lordship of Christ became a matter of intense debate among evangelicals. […]

(By Nathan Busenitz)
As we launch our discussion on lordship salvation, it is perhaps helpful to cite an extended quote from Zane Hodges (one of the leading opponents to the lordship position). Understanding the “Free Grace” position (from quotes like this one) will help explain what lordship salvation is safeguarding against. Thanks to Jonathan Moorhead for heads […]