Salvation

Recently, our family drove from Washington State to Tennessee, to drop our oldest son off at college. One day, in the wilderness of western Colorado, I spied a shiny new Corvette ahead of me. It was plodding along at about 65 mph on a stretch of interstate where the speed limit was 80 mph. Yet, there he stayed—at 65 mph.

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The Disciple-Maker’s Challenge

Everyone who seeks to make disciples in obedience to Jesus Christ faces the same difficulty:

We all try to discern whether or not those we lead to profess Jesus Christ have genuinely believed.

None of us wants to give an unbeliever false hope of salvation if they have not yet repented and placed their faith in Jesus. And so, we all face frustration.

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“I’ve been a believer for 60 years now, and I’m still amazed every day at how much spiritual growth still lies ahead of me—at often I tell myself, ‘Dan, after all this time, you really ought to be better at this.’” - Olinger

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Logos Academic Blog: [T]he argument of this two-part article is that effectual calling and regeneration should be understood as twin realities in the Reformed articulation of the ordo salutis, not as two separate theological entities.

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Logos Academic Blog: “Bates’ thesis, at once radical and obvious, is this: in the New Testament writings, the Greek word pistis, or ‘faith,’ is better translated as ‘allegiance.’ … there are specific contexts, especially in Paul and the Gospels, in which the only reasonable rendering is ‘allegiance,’ as in the kind of fidelity or loyalty that one would give to a ki

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Cripplegate.com: Simon had four red flags that Luke points out in the short story of Acts 8:9-24 which we can apply to all false converts. These don’t encompass all the red flags, but they are a helpful start.

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Reformation21: Rather than experiencing growth in grace, they paralyze themselves by nurturing self-pity. Instead of going to the Scriptures and to Christ, they form an unhealthy dependency on others.

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John MacArthur: The call to Calvary must be recognized for what it is: a call to discipleship under the lordship of Jesus Christ. To respond to that call is to become a believer. Anything less is simply unbelief.

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He Came To Me

The Tale of the Two Builders

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They Profess to Know God: Do They Know Him? (Part 1)

The Disciple-Maker’s Challenge

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“Salvation is indeed simple and free, but it’s not just a single event at one point in time.”

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Twins, not Rivals: Regeneration and Effective Calling in the Ordo Salutis

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Salvation by Faith, or Allegiance Alone?

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Four Characteristics of a False Convert

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Jesus and the Victim Card

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Abandoning Christ's Gospel

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He Came To Me

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