Sola Gratia: The Erosion of the Gospel
Unwarranted
confidence in human ability is a product of fallen human nature.
This false confidence now fills the evangelical world; from the
self-esteem gospel, to the health and wealth gospel, from those
who have transformed the gospel into a product to be sold and sinners
into consumers who want to buy, to others who treat Christian faith
as being true simply because it works. This silences the doctrine
of justification regardless of the official commitments of our churches.
God's
grace in Christ is not merely necessary but is the sole efficient
cause of salvation. We confess that human beings are born spiritually
dead and are incapable even of cooperating with regenerating grace.
THESIS
THREE: SOLA GRATIA
We reaffirm that in salvation we are rescued from God's wrath
by his grace alone. It is the supernatural work of the Holy
Spirit that brings us to Christ by releasing us from our bondage
to sin and raising us from spiritual death to spiritual life.
We deny that salvation is in any sense a human work. Human
methods, techniques or strategies by themselves cannot accomplish
this transformation. Faith is not produced by our unregenerated
human nature. |
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Grace
Alone: An Evangelical Problem? by Kim
Riddlebarger
Do
you REALLY Believe that Salvation is by Grace Alone? by Jeffrey
C. Nesbitt
Chain
of Grace by John G. Reisinger
Sermon
Manuscripts - Series: Saved by Grace by Dave Hatcher
Sola Gratia & Sanctification by Rich Gilbert
Shocking
Grace! by Frank Griffith
Justification
is by Grace Alone by John Calvin
Conversion of the Will
is the Effect of Divine Grace Inwardly Bestowed by John Calvin
All
of Grace by C.H. Spurgeon
Justification
by Grace by C.H. Spurgeon
The
Pelagian Captivity of the Church by R. C. Sproul
Justification
is by Grace Alone by
John Calvin
Conversion
of the Will is the Effect of Divine Grace Inwardly Bestowed
by John Calvin
Sola
Gratia Sam Hughey
The
Bondage of the Will By Dr. Martin Luther (Book) **
Sola
Gratia Acts 15:1-21 By P. G. Mathew, M.A., M.Div., Th.M.
Sola Gratia: by Brett Baker
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