FAITH: the little word that prevents evangelicals from understanding that "free" really does mean FREE!
If you are sitting in your living room, watching television, and you see a promotion for entering a contest to win a "free" prize, but down at the very bottom of the television screen, for maybe two seconds, in small, faint print, you read this statement: "$15 entrance fee required"...is this prize really free?
No. Why? Because you had to do something to receive it!
If you go on vacation to a luxury resort and are told that the resort is giving away a free steak and lobster dinner...and all that you have to do to receive this free dinner is to sit through an hour and a half time-share presentation...is that steak and lobster dinner really free?
No. Why? Because you had to do something to receive it!
So when an evangelical Christian tells you that salvation is a free gift, and that all you have to do to receive it, is to make a free-will, mature, informed, adult or older child decision...is that a free gift?
So why do so many evangelicals require a "decision" if they believe that salvation is a free gift from God; when they insist that salvation is not based on any good work of the sinner???
FAITH: the little word that prevents evangelicals from understanding that "free" really does mean FREE!
ReplyDeleteIf you are sitting in your living room, watching television, and you see a promotion for entering a contest to win a "free" prize, but down at the very bottom of the television screen, for maybe two seconds, in small, faint print, you read this statement: "$15 entrance fee required"...is this prize really free?
No. Why? Because you had to do something to receive it!
If you go on vacation to a luxury resort and are told that the resort is giving away a free steak and lobster dinner...and all that you have to do to receive this free dinner is to sit through an hour and a half time-share presentation...is that steak and lobster dinner really free?
No. Why? Because you had to do something to receive it!
So when an evangelical Christian tells you that salvation is a free gift, and that all you have to do to receive it, is to make a free-will, mature, informed, adult or older child decision...is that a free gift?
No. Why? Because............you...had...to...do...something...to...receive...it!
So why do so many evangelicals require a "decision" if they believe that salvation is a free gift from God; when they insist that salvation is not based on any good work of the sinner???
http://www.lutherwasnotbornagain.com/2013/09/faith-little-word-that-prevents.html