Queen's Road Cell

Today we addressed the idea of whether one can receive Jesus as Saviour, but not as Lord - or put another way, whether we can be saved without at the same time showing evidence of submission to Jesus' authority in our lives. This used to be called "the Lordship controversy" and the underlying ideas are carried on by the "Free Grace movement". So, the teaching goes that one can be saved, and yet show no outward evidence of salvation for a time, with the possibility that one's works are only known to God. The ideas behind this are represented by some churches in Singapore that teach that, once saved by grace, there is no need for continued repentance, and that our salvation is assured. This is an important pastoral issue, because it is true that modern evangelistic methods downplay the need for repentance and surrender. This leads to people inside churches who think they are saved but have never known true salvation and the experience and reality of the indw...

Looking at Paul's line of argument in Eph 3:14-21 we can see how he takes up a thought in 3:1, interrupts himself, then takes it up again in v.14. After describing Christ's work to unite Jews and Gentiles in the church, he then prays for strength in the inner being, so that Christ may dwell in our hearts through vaith, so that we have the ability to grasp the love of Christ, that we might be filled with all the fullness of God. This last goal is so ultimate and striking in its extent that we should be led to awe and worship. This is a great basis for giving Christ full control over our lives. We spent time sharing the areas in our life where Christ's lordship should be manifest. And we spent time exploring Christ's lordship in depth in the following areas: 1.  Our leisure time. I shared that it is difficult for me to surrender this because we may feel entitled to a time for ourselves without anyone (even God) telling us what to do after a hard day's work. The B...