John,

Personally, I am uncomfortable with even the term, "Lordship Salvation", especially when it is described as someone making Christ Lord and Saviour. Why? Because one doesn't make the Lord Christ anything. He IS the LORD Jesus Christ, the Saviour of sinners. When someone comes to true faith in Him, it is a believing, trusting, taking hold, resting and taking hold of Him for who He is. One's acknowledgment of His lordship is no less a natural thing than one acknowledging that Bush is President, as far as the office that he occupies. You simply cannot bifurcate Christ from His person and work nor can one compartmentalize Him and then choose some things and leave others, as if you are shopping for groceries at the local food store.

Love and obedience are two sides of the same coin.


John 14:15 (KJV) "If ye love me, keep my commandments."

John 15:10 (KJV) "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love."

1 John 2:3 (KJV) "And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments."

1 John 2:4 (KJV) "He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him."

1 John 5:3 (KJV) "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous."

Philippians 2:9-11 (ASV) "Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven and [things] on earth and [things] under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."



In His Grace,

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