"Once saved, always saved, no matter what you do." This is a popular way of expressing the eternal security of the believer in Jesus Christ. God doesn't just set us on the proper path and then leave us to our own devices. But is this an adequate or even biblically accurate representation of the sustaining grace of God in redemption? There is a family of texts which insist that no one can snatch believers out of the Father's hand. But experience, observation, biblical history and other passages of Scripture teach that some people have shipwrecked their faith. Indeed, we can see evidence of such shipwrecks all around...
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Pastor Bruce Ray has been senior pastor of Juanita Community Church in Kirkland, Washington since 1976. He also serves as a Police, Fire & EMS chaplain. Books include Withhold Not Correction and Celebrating the Sabbath (both published by P&R Publishing). He is a member of the...