Salvation

ABOUT THE MESSAGE: The doctrine of salvation was something that liberal theologians were getting wrong, and they were corrupting the church with their teaching. Because J. Gresham Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism is in many ways a defense of the gospel, the book builds up to its chapter on salvation. In this lesson, Dr. Nichols corrects the works-based understanding of salvation with the biblical understanding of salvation, that we are justified by faith alone in Christ alone.

ABOUT THE SERIES: In 1923, J. Gresham Machen wrote his classic work Christianity and Liberalism. Machen understood that he lived in a time that needed answers. People needed to know the fundamental doctrinal convictions of Christianity in an age of compromise. Modernism was threatening the church, and liberals within the church were seeking to accommodate it, calling into question bedrock doctrines of the faith. In this teaching series, Dr. Stephen J. Nichols reminds us of who Machen was, why his book is still important, and how it teaches us that there is only one true, uncompromising Christian faith.