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life: John 1:12; 3:16; 3:36; 5:24; 6:40; 6:47,48,51; 7:37,38; Acts 10:43; 16:30,31; Romans 1:16; 3:22;
3:27,28; 5:1; 6:23; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Galatians 2:16; 3:22; Ephesians 1:13; 2:1-10 (esp. 8,9); 1
Thessalonians 5:9; 1 Timothy 1:15,16; 2 Timothy 3:15; Titus 3:4-7; 1 John 5:11-13.

Romans 10:13 – “Whoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved.”

John 3:16 – “…that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life”

Scripture clearly states that God has sovereignly chosen us, yet we have a free will in salvation.

Why I am not a five-point Calvinist.

What is the Gospel?
The word gospel means “good news.” It is best described in:

I Corinthians 15:3-4 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that
Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4that he was buried, that he was
raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

The gospel message is that Christ died and arose to take our punishment for sin and give us eternal life.

The key word in the New Testament describing what one must do to have eternal life is “believe (to
exercise faith).” The term “believe” means more than believing a fact. It means “trusting in” or
“depending on” a fact. You can say a chair will hold you up if you sit in it, but true faith is demonstrated
by sitting down in the chair. That’s what “believing in Christ for eternal life” means. In the Bible, “faith”

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