Frederick W. Wright

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What did Jesus preach--a message of free salvation and easy access to eternal life, or a stern message of self-denial and suffering with slim chance of ever making it to heaven? First He states that His yoke is easy (Matthew 11:28-30), but them He insists that sacrifice and suffering are the price of genuine discipleship (Matthew 5:27-30).

Some church leaders, swayed primarily by the stern commands of Christ for discipleship, tend to regard those who teach free salvation as shallow believers. In recent years, a group of these leaders has charged that the majority of evangelicals today embraces a false gospel of easy believism. This errant teaching, it is asserted, is seducing multitudes of believers into a false sense of security as it leads them down a wide path of easy living into perdition.

This book comes to the defense of this majority of evangelicals, urging that the Gospel of Jesus excludes such polarization.