This week we had a mailbag edition starring Glen Rien, Doug Salonen, Shean Smith, Robert de Vries, Wayne Leis, Brain Noyes and Barry Gustafson, who brought us topics like how many covenants were there, How to grow a megachurch, some thoughts on Noah, why people leave religion just to join another religion, how to serve the Lord and being real. Enjoy Family!

What were you told to believe? That it was YOUR faith that saved you? Or that it was Christ’s faith that redeemed the world? Mike Williams and Don Bartlett put this one to bed once and for all, pointing out as well, that if you can do ANYTHING gain your redemption, then you must also be able to do something to lose it. It is Jesus all the way!

In this week’s Powercast Mike Williams and Don Bartlett discuss a question that was posted in the Gospel Revolution Private Group on Facebook.  The question asked about Romans 3:22 and specifically about faith “in” Christ being required for righteousness. The discussion pointed out that Romans 3:22 says “faith of Christ” not “in Christ.  The conversation led to a very descriptive picture of God having corralled everyone into unbelief so he could have mercy upon all and corrall us all into righteousness.

In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams and Don Bartlett discussed feedback from Gospel Revolutionaries on our Facebook groups. One post was from Michael Turi of Pennsylvania who made a bright observation about what Jesus said and did before and after the cross. Don and Mike also returned to addressing Jim Richards’ letter against the gospel and Mike Williams, and most conspicuous conclusion was that Jim Richards’ letter “The Grace Imposter” did not even define what grace is.

In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams and Don Bartlett take on one of the most sensitive statements in Jim Richards’ letter against Mike Williams and the gospel. In this passage of the letter, Jim uses a quote from the Bible to define what knowing Christ is. It actually was a defense of applying the law and connecting it with knowing Christ , when actually Paul the Apostle said the law was what kept him from knowing Christ.

In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams and Don Bartlett address statements from Shean Smith of Alabama and Jimmy McCollum of Illinois, which leads to an interesting conversation about what it’s like to embrace the gospel and what that means to your view of Christianity. From there, they resume reading the next accusation from Jim Richard’s letter against Mike Williams and the gospel, which inadvertently highlights one of those changes in view.

Disclaimer:  The image above is a graphic representing the current Christian conventional wisdom of grace

In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams and Don Bartlett resume addressing Jim Richards’ letter against Mike Williams and the gospel. Thanks to many people contacting us, we first hear from several people making comments and asking questions. We get to hear first from Bernie Rouse in Michigan, Michael Turi in Pennsylvania, Shean Smith in Alabama, Moses Ngata in Kenya and Wayne Leis in Canada. Then we get down to addressing the next part of the letter, which leads to clear and distinguishing elaborations by Mike regarding grace and context.

In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams and Don Bartlett discuss the next section of Jim Richards’ letter against Mike and the gospel.  In this part of the letter, Jim quotes part of what Jesus said about knowing “them” by their fruit, which leads Mike to address not only the context of the quote but also the major underlying reason why Jim wrote this diatribe against Mike and the gospel in the first place.