Google Preferred Sources
ForumsShare

Is Your Christian Life Missing Something?

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
Credit :

By focusing on one aspect of our salvation, we, whether knowingly or unknowingly, minimize other aspects of our Christian Life. If justification is the entirety of our salvation experience, believers miss out on the joy and purpose of sanctification.

Dallas Willard summarizes it this way: The background assumption is that justification is the entirety of salvation. If you are justified — your sins forgiven — then you are saved and you will be “okay” after your death. I submit to you that this is what is offered, in still more specific forms, by current efforts (“evangelism”) to convert people to Christianity, and it is what people generally understand to be essential to the transaction.

Read more at: https://www.christianpost.com/voice/preaching-half-the-gospel.html

Was this article helpful?

Become a CP Insider.
Help keep The Christian Post free for everyone.

The truth has a cost, and Insiders help carry it.
A dollar from an Insider comes with no strings attached. It keeps our reporters on the story, keeps our journalism open to everyone, and keeps every editorial decision in the newsroom, where it belongs.

Become a CP Insider and choose the amount you want to pay. You can change, pause or cancel anytime. As a thank-you, you’ll get:

  • The Insider Newsletter, a members-only monthly letter from our newsroom

  • Ad-free reading across christianpost.com


From as low as $8.25/month
Prefer to give once?

We’re sorry to hear that.

Hope you’ll give us another try and check out some other articles.
Return to homepage.

Most Popular