Pastor Clark Whitten, who pastored three mega-churches before founding Grace Church of Longwood, Florida, in 2005, wrote Pure Grace: The Life Changing Power of Uncontaminated Grace (2012). A few of his books on this subject include Destined to Reign (2007), Unmerited Favor (2009), and Grace Revolution (2015). The most prolific writer among hyper-grace teachers is Singapore pastor Joseph Prince. Around that time and continuing steadily since, many books (the majority of which are self-published) and many blogs have been published. However, it appears that they did not begin to articulate their ideas through the writing media until about 2005. Hyper-grace teachers have undoubtedly expressed their beliefs for many years through preaching and teaching in their local churches and their church-based training institutions. Then I will provide a delineation of the basic teachings of this group. Amazingly, while Free Grace teaching came from dispensational circles, and the source of what I called “antinomianism” in Lecture #4 came from Reformed circles, hyper-grace teaching comes from Pentecostal/Charismatic circles.Īllow me to share a short history of the hyper-grace movement which will include the names of its major proponents. Lecture #3 talked about the Free Grace movement which stemmed from dispensational theology, and Lecture #4 focused on the antinomian tendency flowing out of some elements of Reformed theology.įollowing these lectures, I learned of a third stream of antinomian theology in evangelicalism, the hyper-grace movement. In the third and fourth lectures I discussed two groups in evangelicalism who have tended to downplay the importance of good works and holy effort in the believer’s sanctification. Following this, I listed four means God uses to help His children to persevere in faith and good works: suffering, commands, conditional promises and warnings, and fellowship in the local church. I provided an overwhelming number of biblical texts demonstrating this truth. believers will continue in faith, love, and holiness because God freely saves them once for all. Lecture #2, “The Meaning and Means of Perseverance,” showed how the Scriptures teach the necessity of perseverance in the believer’s life, i.e. Lecture #1 sought to answer the question, “How do we grow in our Christian walk?” I considered five models proposed by sanctification teachers in evangelicalism-Wesleyan, Pentecostal, Keswick, Chaferian, and Reformed-and suggested that the Reformed view best fits the teaching of the Bible. Second, I want to give an update regarding some recent occurrences among one of the groups I discussed.īefore giving updates and additions, I need to give a short overview of the four lectures on sanctification given last February. ) First, I want to provide further information about another group of antinomian writers which could easily have comprised a fifth lecture in last year’s meeting. (These lectures are available on our seminary website at. Saxon’s students, that you will not be disappointed or bored by a dull, monotone discourse but rather you will be challenged to know God more deeply and to love God more fervently.Īs we anticipate this upcoming event, I would like to look back to our 2019 MacDonald series during which I had the privilege of speaking about sanctification. I can assure you, both from personal experience and from the testimony of hundreds of Dr. David serves as professor of church history at Maranatha Baptist University. David Saxon, will deliver these lectures. My good friend and warm-hearted scholar, Dr. Readers of the Nick of Time will be greatly encouraged by joining us on February 11 for this year’s set of talks on the writings of Andrew Fuller, the pre-eminent British Baptist pastor of the late eighteenth century. Here at Central Seminary we are fast approaching our annual MacDonald Lecture Series.
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