Opposite Poles : Contradictions Within Sola Fida

“Your analysis of the current struggle in evangelical circles elicited silent huzzahs as I read it … your criticisms are on target. Your strictures are on the whole acute and justified. May I share your manuscript with some of my colleagues?” -DR. VERNON C. GROUNDS “Your manuscript does a good job of assessing the different views of soteriology and replying to the extremes of some teachers. You’ve reviewed the material carefully and sought to present a balanced view…. Your material in chapter 6 … is dynamite!” -DR. WARREN W. WIERSBE “I think that your analysis is fundamentally correct. It is something that should be available to the church generally.” -Dr. David F. Siemens, Jr. “Wright does a tremendous job for me of putting things in perspective…. I now find more fuel and placement for what I believe…. Praise be to the Lord for Who He is and What He does! ‘Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statues’ (Psalms 119.68). Thank you for this which you have passed on to me!” -Missionary Stuart Cuthbertson What did Jesus preach-a message of free salvation and easy access to eternal life, or a stern message of self-denial and suffering with slim chance of ever making it to heaven? First He states that His yoke is easy (Matthew 11.28-30), but then He insists that sacrifice and suffering are the price of genuine discipleship (Matthew 5.27-30). Some church leaders, swayed primarily by the stern commands of Christ for discipleship, tend to regard those who teach free salvation as shallow believers. In recent years, a group of these leaders has charged that the majority of evangelicals today embraces a false gospel of easy believism. This errant teaching, it is asserted, is seducing multitudes of believers into a false sense of security as it leads them down a wide path of easy living into perdition. This book comes to the defense of this majority of evangelicals, urging that the Gospel of Jesus excludes such polarization.