On a blustery October night...
On a blustery October night in a church outside Minneapolis, several hundred believers
had gathered for a three-day seminar. I began with a one-hour presentation on the gospel
of grace and the reality of salvation. Using scripture, story, symbolism, and personal
experience, I focused on the total sufficiency of the redeeming work of Jesus Christ on
Calvary. The service ended with a song and a prayer. Leaving the church by a side door,
the pastor turned to his associate and fumed.
"Humph, that airhead didn't say one thing about what we have to do to earn our
