Beyond the Notes: How A Very Good Man Stayed Lost

Can someone receive Jesus as Savior without following Him as Lord?

Picking up a thread from Sunday's sermon, Pastor Russell Howard walks through the Lordship salvation controversy, from Lewis Sperry Chafer's Systematic Theology in 1948 to the books by John MacArthur, Zane Hodges, and Charles Ryrie that defined the debate in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He then works through five questions at its center: what saving faith is, what repentance is, whether Christ must be received as Lord, what role good works play, and what grounds our assurance.

Howard lands where Scripture does: salvation is a work of God from beginning to end, and it is always permanent and always transformational. For anyone wondering what real faith looks like, or whether a decision made long ago is enough to rest on, this teaching offers a clear and hopeful answer.

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