Few professing Christians would dispute the fact that salvation is in Jesus Christ alone (John 14:6; Acts 4:12). Few professing Christians would dispute the roles of grace and faith in our salvation (Ephesians 2:4-10; 2 Timothy 1:8-11; Titus 3:4-7). But many professing Christians argue that obedience has absolutely nothing to do with our salvation. One…
Category: Salvation
Real Roots of the Emergent Church Documentary: Updated!
Here is the 3-hour Updated Director’s Cut of The Real Roots of the Emergent Church documentary: Because diversity characterizes the Emergent Church movement, it is difficult to paint everyone in the movement with a broad brush. Some have observed that defining the Emergent Church is like nailing jello to a wall. All participants agree on their disillusionment…
Coming Soon: JESUS OF TESTIMONY
Coming soon: Jesus of Testimony (a film by my brother Ethan and I in the works for the last 3 years). Here is the trailer below and description: Jesus Of Testimony Trailer from Nesch Bros on Vimeo. Did Jesus really exist? If so, what can we know about Him historically? For any Christian, the historicity of…
Faith & Works – Harmonizing Paul & James
Paul said, “A man is justified by faith,” whereas James said, “A man is justified by works.” These verses have confused many Protestants who have initially found James to be in contradiction with Paul. How do we harmonize Paul and James? We can start by looking at the context of each statement. The Apostle James…
From What Are We Saved?
There is an important question that “haunts Christianity” which Emergent leader Tony Jones asked his blog community today: What Are We Being Saved From? Often when I ask this question to people who say they are saved, they cannot give me an answer. To most evangelical Christians, their answer would be hell, but there is…