Justification by Faith Alone

According to a recent broadcast on The White Horse Inn radio program, over 31% of respondents at a recent evangelical ministers' conference did not know the correct answer to the question: Is justification by faith alone or by faith and works together? This is an appalling statistic considering that these are the men who are teaching and preaching the gospel from the pulpits.

It is becoming increasingly clear that evangelical Christianity is in terrible trouble. Essential doctrines like the trinity and the deity of Christ are under attack by oneness pentecostals and by the word of faith movement. Yet evangelical theologians and pastors are not sounding the alarm. What then should we do?

The only option at this point is to begin to confront the heretical departures from the Christian faith and to teach and preach the truth. Sometimes this will require a radical departure from churches which have compromised the faith to the point of heterodoxy and even outright heresy. True Christian faith requires that we become part of a local congregation but what happens if there is no local congregation that is faithful to the gospel of Jesus Christ and apostolic doctrine?

I pray that Christ will return soon because the current state of the church leaves one wondering if there is any true church left? The true church is the one where the gospel is rightly preached and the sacraments are rightly administered. Come soon Lord Jesus!