Salvation and...
Recently some erroneous and misleading information has been circulated about my doctrinal beliefs, and by association, the beliefs of Cornerstone Bible Church, on our Soteriolgy (The doctrine of Salvation). Whether it was passed out in ignorance or maliciousness I am unaware, and I decided not to publicly dignify these allegations with a response. However, as gossip tends to do, it has apparently been circulated and therefore I wanted to clarify for anyone who might have questions.
Since I was not contacted beforehand to find out if what was circulated was true, and therefore I have not seen what was actually written, I can only comment on what has been reported to me.
The false information, to my understanding, states that we in some way associate eternal salvation with having children. This is no way reflects our belief or doctrine. Nowhere in any of my writing or teaching can you find this assertion, nor have I verbally stated anything of that nature. This is a false and slanderous statement.
Since we adhere to scripture, our belief is that salvation comes by grace alone through faith in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ shed blood (Hebrews 9:22)on the cross (Ephesians 2:8-9; John 3:16; Romans 6:23; John 14:6). It is that simple.
We are deeply saddened that anyone would indicate to others that our belief in matters of justification is anything different, and even more saddened that someone would believe or share these false reports without first contacting us directly to find out whether or not they are true(Proverbs 26:20).
The beautiful comfort is that in all matters Jesus Christ is on the throne and He is merciful, gracious, just and righteous and He will be glorified.
May Christ bless you greatly today and may the Word of God and the Holy Spirit direct you in all things!
posted by AKA @ 10:28 AM
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3 Comments:
Greetings this fine Lord's day!
I just wanted to let you know that we are praying for you and your fellowship all the way over here in Tidewater Virginia.
Unfortunately, what you are going through is not unusual today in the church...perhaps an indication that we are doing something right, by God's grace!
Christ assures us that when we are faithful we will be under attack from the World, and that includes that which is worldly in the Church.
God bless you! Lifting you up before The Throne!
Margaret in VA
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"Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all." Psalm 34:19
Praying for you!
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It's interesting to see how many churches dance around the decision of a couple to have children. There may be significant, reasonable debate regarding the extent of "trusting God" to determine the number of children you have, but they then skirt the issue of contraception as "not addressed in the Bible", etc.
The fact is that most churches, while decrying abortion, are silent in revealing the plain and simple facts to their people regarding contraceptives. That is, they slide along with society in trying to reduce the number of *surgical* abortions, while silently agreeing to hide the numbers under the mechanical and chemical abortions of contraceptives. Check out Randy Alcorn's site book "Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions?"
(http://www.epm.org/bcp.html)
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