Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions. So the gospel really is at stake in this discussion, though not in the way that the opponents of “lordship salvation” think. What is in question is the nature of faith. Dr. MacArthur has written this book to show from the records of Christ’s own ministry what saving