This is reasonable but that is not what most LS advocates teach. The trite saying goes: Either "He is Lord of ALL or He is not Lord at all."
Al Lyle pointed out "the actual practice of a committed life may not follow immediately or completely." However there are some on this board that actually believe that the day a person is saved they should forsake all and follow Jesus. That command of Jesus has to do with discipleship not salvation, and as Lyle said the willingness to commit one's life absolutely to the Lord immediately or completely may not follow salvation immediately. Normally it takes spiritual growth, maturity, sanctification. Would a mission agency call someone to the mission field who had just trusted Christ?
DHK...
I am glad we can find some agreement.The goal is to see souls strengthened for Kingdom service. Scripture speaks of sanctification as a process......I do not think that this teaching has novices in mind,Of course they need milk and watch-care ...to grow.
The teaching of any who would be aligned with the Lordship idea...is simply Jesus is Lord of all....the novice, the new believer, the struggling believer,the mature believer.
Much of this would be no controversy at all if new persons were taught to "count the cost" right from the start.
We should never and need never separate Jesus as Saviour,and Jesus as Lord.
