The Gospel in Six Minutes

Not the church where I attend nor the churches with which it fellowships, such as having their preachers speak at Bible conferences.

 

Probably so, but it is in the title of the church I attend. Since I have only been attending there for less than a year, I don't know all its 35 year history and why that is the name, but it would probably more accurately be titled Trenton Street Grace Church instead of Grace Baptist Church of Ruston. That being said, we do baptize believers by immersion and observe the Lord's Supper as our two ordinances, just as the Baptist Churches I am aware of do.

 

Yet there are people, even among believers in the sovereign grace of God, who will attack someone who quotes someone, say, for example, Charles Spurgeon, because he said nice things about John Wesley. Now, I wish Spurgeon had not said those nice things about John Wesley, but if someone believes that their salvation is based on the finished work of Christ alone and in the elect's sins being imputed to Christ and His perfect righteousness being imputed to them, I have no interest in jumping all over that person because of some isolated remarks they made about someone else.

 

By the way, thank you for bring Gill's Body of Divinity to my attention. I had heard of it but I need to check it out. I see that it is available for reading online here: A Body of Doctrinal Divinity (monergism.com)

 

John Wesley taught the false gospel of Methodism.

 

John Wesley taught the false doctrine of prevenient grace instead of the gospel of Christ of efficacious grace.

 

If it is not, then you, and I, have no hope. Neither you, nor I, can efficaciously save ourselves.

 

The command is to believe, not to figure out if you are one of the elect.

 

Are you saying that you think you can efficaciously save yourself?

 

It is Biblical.