Drew has special guest Tim Nichols back on to respond to a broadcast from Bob Wilkins and Shawn Lazar of the Grace Evangelical Society's questions "What is a Provisionist? What does it mean to believe? How is believing different from working?". 

Tim and Drew contrast their view of the word "faith"/"belief" with Shawn and Bob's regarding what it means to believe true propositions vs "trust" true propositions from Jesus who IS the Truth. They respond to the GES brothers on their concerns about "doing" things to be saved and the conversations that need to follow claims like that. They also discuss whether faith is "passive" or "active" and how the Bible is not meant to be read as a Systematic Theology text book. Drew and Tim discuss the issue of "doing" something to be saved, what Jesus had to say about it in John 6 and where there can be some evangelistic concerns. They also talk briefly about the crux of the Once Saved Always Saved (OSAS)/Eternal Security debate which is whether God will choose to leave us or not while highlighting some differences between the Free Grace view and the "Traditional" OSAS view. Shawn and Bob seem to think that many Christians might not be saved and Drew and Tim talk about some unhelpful claims they make while also sympathizing with evangelistic concerns that they also have over misunderstandings of "having faith" etc.

Premiered December 30, 2021

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