Sovereign or Superior Grace?
\nMany, I have found report to believe in Sovereign Grace. They speak of
\ntheir love for a God who sovereignly elected a people, a Christ who
\nsovereignly atoned for those particular people alone, and a Spirit who
\nsovereignly and successfully regenerates the same chosen people. In
\ntheir confessions, they boldly and uncompromisingly speak of the
\n\u201cdoctrines of grace\u201d as gospel truth. Using scripture, reason, and
\nhistory, they can debate their position quite convincingly. They seem to
\nstand firm in their belief that \u2018Salvation is of the Lord\u2019. They write
\neloquently about the old paths and gather for Bible conferences to
\npromote a restoration of sound doctrine. I am sure you can tell by my
\ntone thus far that I believe there to be a fly in the ointment. There
\nis, and it stinks to high heaven. The truth is that many of these
\nsupporters of \u201cSovereign Grace\u201d really only believe in a superior grace.
\nTheir refusal to declare a man-centered, works religion as soul damning
\nheresy tells me that what they mean by sovereign is really only
\nsuperior. Their belief that a person can know the Lord Jesus Christ
\nthrough the ministry of a lie tells me that what they mean by sovereign
\nis really only superior. Their unwillingness to renounce their
\nexperiences in arminianism as bogus tells me that what they mean by
\nsovereign is really only superior. Words are only as good as the
\ndefinitions we attach to them. If salvation is only by the sovereign
\ngrace of God in Christ Jesus, then truly no lie can be of the truth.
\nMany \u201csovereign gracers\u201d need to repent of two things. The pride of
\nthinking that they have superior truth when really they have not known
\nthe Truth at all, and the fear of separating themselves from less
\nfortunate \u201cbrethren\u201d who are really not brethren at all. -Greg Elmquist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sovereign or Superior Grace? Many, I have found report to believe in Sovereign Grace. They speak of their love for a God who sovereignly elected a people, a Christ who sovereignly atoned for those particular people alone, and a Spirit who sovereignly and successfully regenerates the same chosen people. In their confessions, they boldly and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,18,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-greg-elmquist","category-grace","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4850,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions\/4850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}