Originally published in "The Lord's Coming Herald & Wesleyan Bible Prophecy Advocate," Spring Edition 2001
The Problems We Address
We address two issues that separate us
from all others who profess to be dealing with the subject of Christ's second
coming.
First, we do not teach the same viewpoint that the vast
majority of others do. They promote a theory called dispensational
premillennialism. We are saying that dispensational teaching is a "cunningly
devised" fable that has put the church to sleep to the true biblical teaching of
Christ's soon return.
The main purpose of our ministry is to show friends what's
wrong with dispensationalism.
Positively, we explain the biblical alternative, an
alternative we believe is in harmony with historic Wesleyan-Arminian theology.
The second problem we address is the practical issue of
worldliness in the Holiness movement, or what we call "antinomianism." The term
comes from two Greek words meaning "lawlessness." John Wesley defined it as the
doctrine that makes void the law through faith. It is essentially the idea that
being a Christian frees one from the moral law.
Antinomianism is most commonly found among those Calvinistic
branches of the Christian church that teach an imputational doctrine of
salvation, which permits adherents to make a profession of Christianity while
continuing to sin in thought, word, and deed every day.
Antinomianism is seen also in the Wesleyan Holiness
movement among the many who have forsaken Bible standards of holy living in
favor of cultural relativity and compromise with the world—most noticeably in
the areas of dress and entertainment.
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