Salvation
21 conversations where the hosts get into salvation.
21 conversations
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Why so many assume God is disappointed in them
- Do most people believe God is disappointed in them, or for them?
Ella and Will report that their default is assuming God's disappointment; Ella says people who act like they know Jesus still feel He thinks they are worthless.
From No. 534 · The Antagonistic Bison
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Most Christians don't believe the Holy Spirit is real
- Do most American Christians believe the Holy Spirit is a real living being?
- Does disbelieving the Holy Spirit's reality mean someone is not saved?
A host opens a Christian Post article claiming most adult US Christians do not believe the Holy Spirit is a real living being.
From No. 442 · Christians Don’t Understand Christianity
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Youth group question of the week: do babies go to heaven?
- Do babies go to heaven?
A host brings a question from a 12- or 13-year-old in his youth group: do babies go to heaven? One host shares a funeral story where a grieving mother was told her unbaptized baby…
From No. 358 · Paul The Intern
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Statement #3: 'We're all God's children'
- We're all God's children - is that biblically true?
A host reads the article's case: only those with faith in Christ and the Holy Spirit can claim God as Father (Romans 8:15, Ephesians 2, 1 John 3).
From No. 229 · Unbiblical Statements
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Statement #6: 'We all worship the same God' + article critique
- Do all religions worship the same God?
After a 'pith' vocabulary bit, a host reads the article's position: one true God, but worship accepted only through Jesus (Deuteronomy 4:39, Acts 4:12).
From No. 229 · Unbiblical Statements
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Life just happens, Job, and the pride of blessing
- Where is God when I deserve punishment?
A host says life just happens and God's chief concern is salvation - the eternal over the momentary pain.
From No. 167 · Where Was God in the Typhoon?
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Dear LFTP: a mother asks whether her gay son will go to heaven
- Do you believe a gay person will go to heaven?
A host reads a Dear LFTP letter from a mother whose son came out last year: the family loves him but she is unsure how God views gays and lesbians, finds the Bible hard to understand, and asks whether a gay person will go to heaven.
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'How do I know if I'm saved?' discussion
- How can a person know they are saved?
The hosts take up the episode's marquee question, prompted by a listener disturbed by a Pastor Bruce-or-Chuck CD that quoted Matthew 7:21–23 ('Lord, Lord...
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Chat questions: what must one do to be saved?
- What must one do to be saved?
- At what point is someone saved?
Reading listener questions from the chat — one host tosses the first to Dan by name — the hosts answer that faith is always the baseline: belief in Jesus Christ as the Son of the living God who died physically and rose physically, since 'demons believe and shudder' too.
From No. 34 · Where Do I Start?
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Salvation is a process, not a prize
- Doesn't Catholicism teach that justification is a process?
The hosts argue the church too often sells salvation as 'anti-hell' instead of teaching the relationship itself, then walk through a hypothetical new believer, 'Joe Blow,' from first interest through repentance to baptism.
From No. 34 · Where Do I Start?
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Baptism part one: is it necessary for salvation?
Boova lays out his full baptism question: he grasps the symbolism, Jesus's own baptism with John and the heavens opening, the Greek baptizo as taking on the properties of water, and dying to self and rising again in Christ.
From No. 539 · Birdcage
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Andrew Carson’s pope style: useless to the kingdom
- Is fearing being seen as useless by people — but not by God — the right reaction?
Andrew Carson (addressed by name in the audio) tells how, after admitting his greatest fear is being seen as useless by other people, he sensed God asking why he does not fear…
From No. 258 · Paris and the Refugees
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Warning against the prosperity gospel
- What is the prosperity gospel?
Asked what message a new church should bring to struggling people, Zebedee warns against bundling the gospel with worldly gain: prosperity preachers have divided Zimbabwe's…
From No. 372 · Interview with Zebedee
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Assurance, works, strong delusion, and why warn the world
- What is the benefit of alerting the world that Judgment Day is coming?
The hosts probe assurance ('how do you know you're not saved vs. not yet chosen'), works as a ruler, and Steve's claim that God gives those in local congregations over to 'a strong delusion.'
From No. 54 · May 2 2011
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Savior and Lord: 'don't tell me to be Jesus, tell me about Jesus'
- If a strip club protested our church, what would the right practical response be?
Reacting to a Facebook line - "don't tell me to be Jesus, tell me about Jesus" - the hosts argue both camps miss something: Jesus is Savior and Lord, and submitting to his…
From No. 202 · Looking for Allah, Finding Jesus
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Saved vs. Christ follower: assurance and the journey
The crew digs into salvation language: one host avoids 'saved' ('I thought you were saved, you thought you were done') in favor of 'Christ follower' because 'either you're following' — an action word — crediting Dan for the phrase (seg-02254).
From No. 4 · Fast Food, the Holy Spirit, and Kidney Stones
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The church age has ended: believers should leave local congregations
Steve presents the Camping position that the church age has ended: the Greek ecclesia distinguishes the organism of believers from local congregations, and the Bible anticipates a time when the local-church program would stop.
From No. 54 · May 2 2011
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Items 10-13: politics, the Bible as a weapon, judgmentalism, exclusivity
(10) Quit being more passionate about politics than Jesus; (11) quit using the Bible to beat the hell out of people; (12) quit legalistic rants, knee-jerk reactions, and…
From No. 280 · Union of Sinners and Saints
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Rick Gray's pope-style advice: God does not grade on a curve
In-studio guest Rick Gray (speaker-2, cued by name) gives 'pope style' advice - as if someone mistook him for the Pope: salvation is pass/fail, not graded on a curve; nonbelievers…
From No. 167 · Where Was God in the Typhoon?
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Post-interview reactions: 'My brain hurts'
Back in the studio, the hosts react: 'My brain hurts,' and 'he knows his Bible.' They weigh the church-age-is-over premise against their own experience — that the inspired Word…
From No. 54 · May 2 2011
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'Rescue' — song story and performance
A band member explains the song 'Rescue,' written about two years earlier: one friend was going through cancer, another wasn't saved, and the song is a cry from his heart for someone to come to their rescue with salvation and Christ.
From No. 47 · February 28 2011