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<blockquote data-quote="aiki" data-source="post: 68480841" data-attributes="member: 178791"><p>Well, the root of the Church's present problem of spiritual superficiality lies in no small part with the kind of Gospel that is preached. There has been a lot of "Jesus loves you!" "God offers you the gift of an eternity with Him!" "All you have to do to be saved is pray the Sinner's Prayer!" As far as these things go, they are true. One cannot earn salvation, to be sure, but genuine salvation is always evidenced in a changed life (<strong>Ja. 2</strong>). Yes, one must "confess with their mouth and believe in their heart that Jesus Christ is Saviour and Lord," but no where in Scripture is there a particular prescribed prayer of salvation, no Sinner's Prayer ritual one can rattle off in order to be saved. Salvation is a Person, Jesus Christ (<strong>1Jn. 5:11, 12</strong>), not a thing, not a sort of divine certification against the fires of hell. We are justified by God, we are saved, solely by faith in Jesus as our Saviour and submission to him as Lord. Yes, salvation is a gift, but it is also an <em>exchange</em>. Yes, Jesus loves sinners but he will also judge them, and reject them, and send them to Hell. And so on. The Gospel is a much more complex set of inter-related truths than it is typically made out to be. And when people are saved with a superficial grasp of the Gospel, they go on to have a correspondingly superficial experience of life in Christ. Correcting people's understanding of the Gospel is, then, as far as I'm concerned, a vital part of correcting the general degeneration presently afflicting the Church. This is what I do when I disciple believers. The first several weeks of discipleship go over the <em>full</em> scope of the Gospel, covering in detail the matters of justification by faith, identification with Christ, sanctification, appropriation, the crucified life, etc. Every person who claims to be a born-again disciple of Christ, needs to be very clear and sure of the entire Gospel, not the easy-believism and half-truths often preached as the Gospel today.</p><p></p><p>Selah.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aiki, post: 68480841, member: 178791"] Well, the root of the Church's present problem of spiritual superficiality lies in no small part with the kind of Gospel that is preached. There has been a lot of "Jesus loves you!" "God offers you the gift of an eternity with Him!" "All you have to do to be saved is pray the Sinner's Prayer!" As far as these things go, they are true. One cannot earn salvation, to be sure, but genuine salvation is always evidenced in a changed life ([B]Ja. 2[/B]). Yes, one must "confess with their mouth and believe in their heart that Jesus Christ is Saviour and Lord," but no where in Scripture is there a particular prescribed prayer of salvation, no Sinner's Prayer ritual one can rattle off in order to be saved. Salvation is a Person, Jesus Christ ([B]1Jn. 5:11, 12[/B]), not a thing, not a sort of divine certification against the fires of hell. We are justified by God, we are saved, solely by faith in Jesus as our Saviour and submission to him as Lord. Yes, salvation is a gift, but it is also an [I]exchange[/I]. Yes, Jesus loves sinners but he will also judge them, and reject them, and send them to Hell. And so on. The Gospel is a much more complex set of inter-related truths than it is typically made out to be. And when people are saved with a superficial grasp of the Gospel, they go on to have a correspondingly superficial experience of life in Christ. Correcting people's understanding of the Gospel is, then, as far as I'm concerned, a vital part of correcting the general degeneration presently afflicting the Church. This is what I do when I disciple believers. The first several weeks of discipleship go over the [I]full[/I] scope of the Gospel, covering in detail the matters of justification by faith, identification with Christ, sanctification, appropriation, the crucified life, etc. Every person who claims to be a born-again disciple of Christ, needs to be very clear and sure of the entire Gospel, not the easy-believism and half-truths often preached as the Gospel today. Selah. [/QUOTE]
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