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What Is Saving Faith? Reflections on Receiving Christ as a Treasure is unavailable, but you can change that!

What happens in the heart when it experiences real saving faith? John Piper argues that faith in Christ is not saving unless it includes what he calls “the affectional dimension of treasuring Christ.” Nor is God glorified as he ought to be unless he is treasured in being trusted. Saving faith in Jesus Christ welcomes him forever as our supreme and inexhaustible pleasure. What Is Saving Faith?...

Lest we think the view that MacArthur was challenging has gone away, we should take notice that Wayne Grudem, in 2016, thirty years after that dispute, felt so burdened by its encroachments in evangelical churches today that he published a new book, “Free Grace” Theology: 5 Ways It Diminishes the Gospel.6 Both Grudem and MacArthur faithfully show from Scripture, in the words of MacArthur: “The signature of saving faith is surrender to the lordship of Jesus Christ.” “Those
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