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“Keller’s response to the question, Is Jesus the only way to God? is to prevaricate, for he says he can only answer a question about eternal salvation “if Jesus is who He says He is”. Why, is there some doubt in his mind?
But this is the point. Right here Keller could have quoted Scripture to make clear that Jesus Christ is the only way to God. He could have quoted Jesus’ famous statement: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14.6). He could have quoted the apostle Peter: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4.12).
But he quoted neither text, for, as we shall see, Keller’s gospel is not based on Scripture.
Keller says to be a Christian means that your soul has to ‘get Jesus’. What does this mean? Is Jesus some commodity, like a bar of soap that you can ‘get’ from a supermarket shelf?
And then he makes the remarkable statement, before a large audience, that God may have a trap door for unbelievers that “I haven’t been told about”? He is surmising that God may actually have a secret way to heaven for those who do not repent of their sins and place their faith in Christ. But Keller’s ‘trap door’ possibility is unbiblical and deeply heretical, for it implies that Christ died in vain. Christ said, “I am the Door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved” (John 10.9).
“He who does not enter by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber” (John 10.1). There is only one Door to heaven, Jesus Christ.”
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Disturbing the Culture
EPHESIANS 5:15-16. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
There never was a dull day for the first-century followers of Jesus. In fact, it seems that wherever Paul went, there was either a conversion or a riot.
The early church didn’t have modern technology at their disposal. Yet in a relatively short time, these believers changed their world. They permeated their culture.
Tertullian, a Christian leader and a contemporary of these early followers of Christ, said of the church, “We are but of yesterday, and we have filled every place among you—cities, islands, fortresses, towns, marketplaces, the very camp, tribes, companies, palace, senate, forum—we have left nothing to you but the temples of your gods.”
He was pointing to the fact that the church had infiltrated everything. There were even Christians in the palace of Caesar.
This is what we need today. We need Christians to go out and make a difference. We need Christians involved in the arts, making great films and creating graphic design. We need Christians in places of authority, because the Bible says that when the righteous rule, the people rejoice (see Proverbs 29:2).
We need Christian doctors, lawyers, and businesspeople. We need believers to let their light shine in this culture today.
Religious leaders in Thessalonica had this to say about Paul and Silas: “These who have turned the world upside down have come here too” (Acts 17:6 NKJV).
G. Campbell Morgan said, “Organized Christianity which fails to make a disturbance is dead.”
Believers in the first century made a disturbance because they understood that God had called them to do their part. They took risks.
They left their comfort zones. In the Book of Acts, we see their fearless preaching, their expectant prayer, and their willingness to obey God.
Twenty-first-century believers should be living like these first-century believers, calling for lost sinners to repent, impacting our culture. We should be making a difference. We should be turning our world upside down. What are we waiting for?
G.Laurie
Hi Donald,
The most important thing I can ever do is tell you that if you have never repented, and are not a believer in, and follower of the Lord Jesus; you are a lost sinner on the road to hell.
However, the good news is that Jesus died on the cross for your sin making it possible for you to be reconciled to God, and be assured of a home in heaven one day. I am calling on you to repent and believe!
So, what am I supposed to believe to become a Christian! BELIEVE WHAT?
• Believe you are a sinner by nature and by choice
• Believe you are alienated from God, and must truly repent and turn from your sin.
• Believe that you are “condemned already” and need a pardon.
• Believe that you need to repent (turn your back from sin) and produce fruits of obedience.
• Believe that Jesus took your punishment on the cross as your substitute, and is waiting to pardon you.
• Believe that God’s justice was satisfied by the fact that God raised Jesus…from the dead. And when God raised Him from the dead He was saying, “I am satisfied.”
• Believe that the evidence that you are truly a believer is that you produce “fruits of obedience.”
That’s what you believe. That’s the gospel.
And when you believe that by faith, simply trusting God, He, in His mercy takes the righteousness of Jesus Christ and credits it to you because your sins were credited to Christ when He died on the cross. In 2 Corinthians 5:21 we read
“GOD made JESUS who did not know sin to be sin for US, so that WE might become the righteousness of GOD in Him. “
In Acts 2:37-38, after hearing the gospel the people became aware of their guilt as sinners and said, “What shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
In Luke 18:14, the repentant sinner said, “God be merciful to me a sinner.”
So, if you truly repent, you place your faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross, God will hear you and your life will be transformed in a moment.
If your faith is weak ask Him to help you to believe. If you need more information read the Gospel of John, and ask God to teach you the truth of Christ.
Brian
I was born in Belfast in Ireland, in a religious environment three streets from where C.S. Lewis lived. My dad was saved as a 17 year old. He had been invited to a Four Square Gospel church in the Ravenhill Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was there he heard the gospel and repented, and started following Jesus.
After his marriage to my mother, they attended a Congregational Church for a short while. It was there I was subjected to the totally meaningless, unbibiblical, and unnecessary ritual of infant sprinkling. Later my mother was also saved, and we started attending an Evangelical Church in Belfast.
As an elementary school child I was privileged to hear the gospel, learn scripture verses and have many church friends. I saw many down and outs, drunks and immoral people repent, confess their sins and join the church. But I felt that I was good enough, and didn’t need to repent. I even misunderstood a bible verse to justify my position. After all, didn’t Jesus say, “I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance” Luke5:32
However, I found the constant reminder of death by the numerous funeral processions, and Irish wakes that paraded down nearby Milady’s Road, in Belfast Northern Ireland to be very disturbing. I was terrified of nuns in their black attire, especially when they approached me in the street. As a young child this constant exposure to death caused me great fear. I knew I was not prepared for death, but did not think that I needed to repent.
When I was nine years old Mom, Dad, and my two sisters and I went to live in sunny Africa. Dad was called to preach the gospel to the mixed race people. Well! with a two week sea cruise, followed by a land of bright sunshine the “funerals and death” faded and I lived as a very happy chap for three years.
When I was twelve those carefree years ended. I had attended with my family a week long series of gospel meetings in Bulawayo, Rhodesia. A Mr. Lee Spratt was the preacher, and I came under great conviction of sin. Although I had lived a sheltered life, I realized that I was a sinner, by nature as well as by choice. At my bedside that night in November 1956 I believed, repented, and placed my faith and trust in my savior.
Four years later at the age of sixteen I had the joy of following my Lord and was immersed in the waters of baptism, with my two best friends, Royston and John. This was a precious event in my life when I confessed “Jesus is Lord” publicly. My faith was strengthened by attending many Gumtree/Stanger summer camps near Durban in South Africa where gifted expositors impacted my life and faith back then. I learned the importance of daily Bible study and prayer.
It is now many years since I made that momentous decision to trust, and obey – the voice of God. You might well ask, “What difference did it make?” Unending peace of mind, peace with God, and an assurance of sins forgiven, and the hope of eternal life with my Lord and Savior.
I am truly saved for sure and I know it. I am ready to see the master face to face and am currently on social media busy sharing with the religious lost and the pagan lost how to be reconciled to God. I have a special burden for the religious lost . I have shared the good news of the gospel with thousands of folks in Russia, France, and the English speaking world so and am busy carrying out the great commission daily as I look forward to seeing my Lord in glory.
What about you
Brian
If you were to see a burning building and a child in there was about to be engulfed in flames, would you not have compassion to rescue the child, rather than to see her perish in the flames.
So as true Christians we are to have compassion for lost souls. In fact winning lost people to Jesus Christ, is the principal duty of every Christian. I said every Christian!
Jude 22-23 tells us to “contend for the faith once delivered to the saints.”
Jude is a book that tells us that we must be doctrinally orthodox. If we truly believe right, we must also behave right.
Francis Schaffer said:
“perhaps the ugliest thing in the world is orthodoxy without compassion.”
Orthodoxy without compassion excludes caring for the lost. If God used you to win one soul to Jesus Christ, just think what that would mean! You would have brought someone to Christ worth more than this entire world .
And yet, as I look at our churches, I’m broken hearted because I know that most pastors, and most people are not soul winners. It perplexes me.
- Most church people have never brought one soul to Jesus Christ.
- But that’s not the saddest thing. The saddest thing is that most church people don’t even try.
- But that’s not the saddest thing, the saddest thing is most church people don’t even care!
Don’t even care!
If you cared you would try; if you tried, and went forth with weeping bearing precious seed, according to scripture, you would doubtless come again bringing your sheaves with you.
I’m going to say something and it’s going to sound mean. It’s not mean! And it’s not something I’m saying off the top of my head. It’s not something I haven’t thought through!
- If you do not care about seeing people saved
- If you are not concerned about bringing the lost to Jesus Christ
- I seriously doubt that you have been born again.
- I seriously doubt that you know the Lord Jesus Christ.
- How could you have received such mercy?
- How could you have received such love, and not want to share it.
Oh for the motive of compassion! It is the compassion we have received from Him. The mercy we have received from Him. I’m amazed that some people are not even interested in bring souls to Jesus Christ.
Real Christians are not about playing games, or playing church, or refusing to authorize tracts to be handed out as lost souls are being entertained at their church events.
Rather, true Christians love our Lord, and are obedient to the great commission of evangelism, and soul winning.
Romans 8:9
“if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.”
What is the spirit of Christ?
- It is the spirit of compassion!
- It is the spirit of love!
- It is the spirit of evangelism
Let’s start evangelizing before it’s too late, and the master takes us home!
I pray the Holy Spirit will use this exhortation in your life.
Dr. Brian Henry
Go ye…..
If you were to see a burning building and a child was in there, about to be engulfed in flames, would you not have compassion and rescue the child, rather than to see her perish in the flames?
Of course you would!
So, as true Christians we are to have compassion for lost souls. In fact winning people to Jesus Christ, bringing lost people to Jesus Christ, is the principal duty of every Christian. It’s commanded in the great commission.
In Jude 22-23 Jude tells us to “contend for the faith once delivered to the saints.”
Jude is a book that also tells us that we must be doctrinally orthodox. But if we are doctrinally orthodox, and we truly believe right, we must also behave right.
Francis Schaffer once said:
“ Perhaps the ugliest thing in the world is Orthodoxy without Compassion.”
Orthodoxy without compassion excludes caring for the lost. If God used you to win one soul to Jesus Christ, just think what that would mean! You would have brought someone worth more than this entire world to Christ.
And yet as I look at DTS, I’m broken hearted, because I know that most of you, are not soul winners. It perplexes me:
- Most of you have never brought one soul to Jesus Christ.
- But that’s not the saddest thing. The saddest thing is that most of you don’t even try.
- But that’s not even the saddest thing, the saddest thing is that most of you don’t even care!
You Dont even care!
If you cared you would try; if you tried, and went forth weeping, bearing precious seed, according to scripture, you would doubtless come again bringing your sheaves with you.
I’m going to say something and it’s going to sound mean. It’s not mean. And it’s not something I’m saying off the top of my head. It’s not something I haven’t thought through.
- If you do not care about seeing people saved
- If you are not concerned about bringing the lost to Jesus Christ
- I seriously doubt that you have been born again.
- I seriously doubt that you know the Lord Jesus Christ.
- How could you have received such mercy?
- How could you have received such love, and not want to share it.
Oh the motive of compassion! It is the compassion we have received from Him. The mercy we have received from Him. I’m amazed that you are not interested in bringing souls to Jesus Christ.
Real Christians are not about playing games, or playing church, or refusing to authorize tracts to be handed out at “Love Lookout,” were lost souls are entertained by PG movies!
Rather, true Christians love our Lord, and are obedient to the great commission of evangelism and soul winning.
Romans 8:9 reads:
“if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.”
What is the spirit of Christ?
- It is the spirit of compassion!
- It is the spirit of love!
- It is the spirit of evangelism
I plead with you to start evangelizing before it’s too late, and the Master takes us home!
I pray the Holy Spirit will use this exhortation in your life.
Dr. Brian Henry
A dear religious lady once said, “Don’t use that word ‘SAVED” kids don’t dig it. It’s not cool!”

“A well known gospel preacher recounts , I preached one time and I was preaching to young people at a youth rally and I used the word “saved.” And I said, “You young people need to be saved.” And a dear religious lady came to me afterwards, and said, ‘You shouldn’t use that word. It’s not contemporary, kids can’t really dig on that word, it’s not cool. You’ve got to use a better word.’
You want to know something? I couldn’t think of a better word. That was God’s word. You know my first reaction was ‘Lady, that’s God’s word. I am not interested in what your word is. What does it mean to be SAVED?
It means to be delivered. From what? From sin, and Satan and judgement, and death, and hell, and only the saving gospel of Christ has the power to do that. Being saved includes:
Repenting from sin
Forgiveness
A transformed life
Turning your back on worldliness
Escape from wrath
Life in the spirit
Resurrection
Eternal life with God.
Being saved,” is God’s effective power in the world to bring about deliverance for men, women, and young people from God’s wrath, from sin, and Satan, and judgement, and death, and hell.
The noun “salvation” is used 23 times by Paul, and the verb form ” saved” 29 times. It’s a key word. It means deliverance!
Have you been delivered, or are you just like that “sweet religious lady” who is skipping down the road to hell while telling us not to use the word “SAVED” from the pulpit?
Brian
Passionately telling the RELIGIOUS lost and PAGAN lost how to be saved, and reconciled to God.
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
Games people play
There is a game that people play,
In which religion evolves
It is the most dangerous game to day
For the loss of one’s soul’s involved.
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It is a game of pretension,
It’s popular and is free
We act the part and play a role,
As a Christian we pretend to be.
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The game is “Playing Church,”
And Sunday is our game day.
We suit up in our very best,
And act like we’re in the narrow way.
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The message is a happy one,
For holiness we think is boring.
The Holy Spirit we think is working,
But it’s an evil one that’s imploring.
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We’re energized and excited,
By the preacher’s sermonette
We’re made to feel like winners,
But our life’s a sinful wreck
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We play this game inside the church,
Very religious, but alas still lost.
We think the Gospel is just a joke,
For which Christ Jesus paid the cost.
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We think the Holy Spirit is the One,
Stirring up our rebellious heart,
But an evil spirit impersonates Him,
Working his deceitful satanic art.
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We can only become a Christian,
By repentance and confession of sin.
Playing this game will never save,
Nor bring us peace within.
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Playing Church is a satanic game,
And Satan’s the one who names it.
He makes religion fun and tame,
And everyone loses who plays it.
https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/81-128/such-were-some-of-you
« The business of conversion is the reason the true church is in the world. This is why we exist in the world.
The true church of Jesus Christ will preach the conversion of sinners from every sin, including homosexuality, sodomy and gender dysphoria.
The church of the Lord is called to preach the gospel of conversion.
So we preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Holy spirit does the convicting of sin and converts all repentant sinners to become Christ followers. » John Macarthur. 1/16/2021
One of my most memorable pets growing up as a missionary kid in Africa was a large Chameleon. I loved the idea that it would change colors to adapt to the environment that it was in. If its surroundings were green, it would change to a green color. If its surroundings were brown it would change to a brown color. It eventually died, but the concept of changing colors for the sake of adapting is unfortunately the trend of modern Christianity.
When a religious chameleon is around church friends, he acts like a person who goes to church.
He prays, he sings songs.
He even goes to the church Bible study.
He may sing in the choir
He may be a deacon or elder
He may be a man of the cloth, and even preach from the pulpit
However, when he’s around his non-Christian friends, something very unusual happens. He starts to change. He starts to act like them.
If they smoke, he smokes.
If they tell bad jokes, he listens to them and may even tells bad jokes.
If they use the Lord’s name in vain he does not object, and may even blaspheme himself
If they get inebriated, so does he
If they are addicted to worldly movies, so is he.
The religious chameleon changes according to his environment or who he’s around. If he sees his Christian friends again, he immediately changes back into a Christian again. He really likes the many good things in the Christian life, but is not interested in being a true follower of the Lord. He likes the idea of a fire insurance to keep him from hell.
All chameleons die sooner or later. Mine did? But what happens to the religious chameleons after death. Matthew 7:21
Matthew 7:21King James Version (KJV)
21 “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
In Luke 16:28 we read the story of the rich man in hell. Isn’t it astounding that even in hell, he had an EVANGELISTIC PASSION wanting somebody to go and warn his brothers. If that is the impulse of those who are the damned, what kind of impulse do we the redeemed have, for the salvation of sinners that they may escape eternal hell?
Since we meet lost people everyday, and they are found in our church services every Sunday, should we not be calling them and warning them to repent as the rich man in hell has admonished us to do?
Brian
Sola Scriptura
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