Are You and Your Baptist Church Either Free Grace/or Lordship salvation?

[David Lamb]

Methodist Church of Britain website

"Wesleyan Theology
The assurance of the free grace of God was the experience of the early Methodists, which the Wesleys set in the Christian tradition of 'arminianism'. . ."

["Free Grace" is the title of a famous sermon of John Wesley]


In UK journal The Baptist Quarterly:

"REV. DAN: TAYLOR (1797-1813) was the originator in 1770 of "The New Connexion of General Baptists," which was at first called "The Assembly of Free Grace Baptists."

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Twin Lakes Baptist Church A Free Grace Fellowship (SBC) Fort Lauderdale, Florida


Free Grace Wesleyan Church of Harkers Island, North Carolina


Free Grace Church of Christ (Disciples of Christ) Mantao, North Carolina


Canada Pacific District, Church of the Nazarene:


So, all kinds of churches make use of the phrase of "Free Grace", but you are now aware that there is a particular theological movement denominated Free Grace Theology that contrasts with Lordship Salvation Theology, are you not?

Yes I am. (I was when you mentioned it in another thread a year or so back ). So I think we are agreed - the term "Free Grace" is used by different people to mean different things. That was my point really; unless we know which meaning is intended, how can we have a meaningful discussion? If a poster writes using the term "Free Grace" in the way Dan Taylor used it, and someone reads that post understanding "Free Grace" to mean belief in Doctrines-of-Grace/Calvinistic/Reformed doctrines, there could be a lot of misunderstanding on both sides.

I'll leave it there, because the original poster (Jesus Fan) has kindly provided the definition he meant:

Free Grace Would be the position that in order to get saved, be a new creation in Christ, one has to ONLY believe in their hearts and confess with their mouths jesus is Lord
HS would then come to reside, and the process of becoming more like into image of Christ now begins
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