faithfulness

A s we continue with our journey of growing in salvation, the answers to this question have proven to come in two depending on one's inclinations.    For I start I will give my answer as NO and YES and this is where I build my response from. T he Calvinists have held a belief that they call the doctrine of eternal security or the perseverance of the saints.   I will not bore you with the historic battles that there have been in line with this topic but one that stands out is what scripture says. Interestingly both answers are found in scripture, for instance, Hebrews 6:4-6, 2 nd peter 2:20-22 support the answer for saying yes and Philippians 1:6 among many others support the answer for no.   And this for some reason may present a problem on where the truth lies. Some may even think that the bible contradicts itself, certainly not, but what exactly is the answer to our question? T here is a reality of life and that is we all have to endure in our walk of fait...

We all have had to ask this after our lives reached that point where we wanted to change. this doesn't need to have a nasty story of salvation or a sweet church person but we all get to this point and if not soon I hope you will. and we do ask for the next step after having received this gift of salvation. there are some of the essentials as I like to call them that are tools that the lord can use to help us grow in this gift of salvation and  this includes the following; Reading the bible , and there are thousands of tools when it comes to this so whichever one that enables you to spend time reading God's word am okay with it. be it the scripture memory or inductive bible study or bible tracks audio bibles bottom line is spending enough time reading the bible. there is more to this but for today this will do. Join a church and not just as a member of that church but more importantly a participant in the church activities for the purposes of accountability and growth. I k...