I’m currently reading in John 6. This is the “I am the bread of life” chapter. Jesus, in teaching about himself as the bread of life, makes a strong connection between bread of life and eternal life. He also has quite a bit to say...
The Bible plainly teaches that there is nothing that humanity can do to save itself collectively, or individually. No one is able, in their own strength and effort, to put right that which was lost in the Garden of Eden. In fact, the very attempt to...
I wanted to share this with you. I read this just this morning in the Preface to N.T. Wright’s Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision and thought it was excellent. “Second, the question is about the means of salvation...
John Wesley’s doctrine of Christian Perfection is most-times misunderstood by its opponents. John Wesley never taught that Christians should be sinless or could achieve sinlessness in this life. John Wesley believed that sinless Christian...
To understand the Trinity, an entirely new way of thinking about reality had to be developed. The old philosophical framework, the old paradigm, nor the old lens, had the terminology, parameters or scope for dealing with what scripture revealed...
Introduction This note demonstrates how John Wesley’s prevenient grace maintains total depravity without falling into Pelagianism. The first section sets the framework for understanding the uniqueness of Wesley’s prevenient grace by describing...