Lordship Salvation proponents often claim that it in modern times submission to the Lordship of Christ has been removed from the presentation of the Gospel. To make this claim many high profile preachers are cited from Church history.
This is Bad Kool-Aid because when the Apostle Paul reminded the Corinthians (and all readers of the New Testament) of the Gospel which he received directly from Jesus Christ, and which all the Apostles preached and all Christians believed – he made no mention whatsoever of submission to the Lordship of Christ. 1Cor 15:1-11 Therefore there has been no removal of submission from the Gospel, lately, or at any time.
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Kev:
You wrote, “Lordship Salvation proponents often claim that it in modern times submission to the Lordship of Christ has been removed from the presentation of the Gospel. “
First, we are/I am referring to the Gospel in the sense of how to be born again, justification. So, submission to Christ to be born again has never been a part of the Gospel, never been a requirement FOR salvation. What LS men did was take the terms of discipleship for the born again believer and made them, including upfront submission to His lordship, a condition to become a born again disciple of Christ.
This is their reaction to the loose living of professing believers. All of us desire to see fruit bearing believers, but the answer is not found in adding to the Gospel, which is what MacArthur and every LS advocate has done.
Lou
Hi Lou,
I agree.
What's more I'd like to add that doing this doesn't just frustrate Grace but it also undermines the ability to accomplish what these LS proponents claim to want to see happen.
Believers can't be properly discipled and disciplined because under the LS system they probably aren't saved in the first place...
So instead of discipline we have people receiving evangelism over and over again.
Kev
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