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The Lordship Controversy occurred in the last two decades of the twentieth century. It was a debate largely between dispensational theologians regarding the nature of salvation and the place of repentance in the life of true believers. On one side of the Lordship Controversy was a company of “Free Grace” theologians who denied that ...
A -. Reset. It has now been 15 years since The Gospel According to Jesus was first published and the lordship of Christ became a matter of intense debate among evangelicals. That book stood for the simple proposition that the gospel is a call to surrender to the lordship of Christ in humble, repentant faith. My publisher originally assigned The ...
Lordship salvation controversy. The lordship salvation controversy (also called lordship controversy) is a theological dispute regarding a soteriological question within Christianity on the relationship between faith and works. This debate has been notably present among some non-denominational and Evangelical churches in North America at least ...
You cannot believe on a half Christ. We take Him for what He is, the anointed Savior and Lord who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords (A. W. Tozer, I Call It Heresy (Camp Hill:Christian Publications, 1974), pp. 9, 14-16. 18-20). The Bible makes it very clear that submission to the Lordship of Christ is a necessary condition for salvation.
Sanctification is the lifelong work of the Holy Spirit which conforms the believer into the image of Christ. Martin Luther once said that “Faith alone justifies, but not the faith that is alone.” “Works,” Luther said, “are not taken into consideration when the question respects justification. But true faith will no more fail to ...
[16] They have tagged the view they oppose "lordship salvation." Lordship salvation, defined by one who labels it heresy, is "the view that for salvation a person must trust Jesus Christ as his Savior from sin and must also commit himself to Christ as Lord of his life, submitting to His sovereign authority." [17]
Some Thoughts on Lordship Salvation. Originally delivered November 1990 at Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meetings in Kansas City, MO. The debate over Lordship salvation that has come to the fore again in recent years has raised anew theological issues that are as old as the Reformation and simply refuse to die.
