In addition I would say that anyone who denies any one of these aspects is either an unbeliever or an apostate.

Who Jesus is, God
What has He done, died for the sins of the world, and rose again.
What He provides, eternal life to all who believe in Him.
Salvation must stand on all three of these things or it falls.

It is with great sadness that we see Wilins & Hodges go down this “Gutless” gospel path, as our brother has called it, for both have been stalwarts against “Lordship Salvation” for many years.

Nevertheless, my opponent’s opponent is not necessarily my friend, and we are friends IF we do what Jesus Christ commands us to do. And He commands us to hold fast the faith and a good conscience.

I will attempt to discover if Bob Wilkin has a good conscience about this matter on July 27th and 28th here in Omaha when Wilkin visits a church where I formerly taught the Scriptures here in Omaha.

Well, here are two years + and saga continues. Below is an interesting article circulated recently on this same issue.
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The long war for the purity of the Word of God has been
waging for centuries. Paul’s charge to Timothy is as applicable and
appropriate today as when it was first issued in approximately 62-63AD:

O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane
and idle babbling and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge
—by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith.” (1Timothy 6:20-21)

If there is any “scriptural truth” we as believers have been entrusted with by God, which must be tenaciously guarded, it is the Gospel of the true grace of God. Yet even in fundamental and evangelical circles today there appears to be much confusion and contention regarding the most important of questions, namely:

“What must I do to be saved?” (Acts 16:30)

On the one hand there are those who GOOF-UP THE GOSPEL via religion by requiring such works as water baptism, living a holy life, not sinning big sins, etc. in order to be saved. This is obviously contrary to the clear teaching of scriptures like Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 4:5, Titus 3:5,6.

On the other hand there are those who GARBLE THE GOSPEL via Arminian decisionism by requiring such non-biblical conditions as to raise a hand, sign a card, walk an aisle, pray a prayer, ask Jesus into your heart, etc. in order to be saved, this is often done with a “non-eternal security” twist to boot. These can be done without any true grasping or understanding of the true Gospel, and actually confuse instead of clarify the only right answer to our question, which is simply, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved…” (Acts 16:31).

Then there are those who GAINSAY THE GOSPEL via Calvinistic Lordship Discipleship-salvation teaching, by requiring for salvation the turning from all sin and a commitment of complete surrender and submission to Christ’s mastery over one’s life, evidenced by on-going fruitfulness and faithfulness to the end. This seriously confuses the justification of a sinner before God vs. sanctification of a saint over time. In doing so, this false teaching annihilates the absolute assurance of salvation. Furthermore, the Gospel no longer is about the “good news” of what Christ has done for us but now focuses on what we must do for God (surrender, submission, sacrifice, etc.) to insure our eternal salvation.

Furthermore, to the sad dismay of many holding to the clear “free grace” message, it must also be mentioned that there are those in the Free Grace camp who are GUTTING THE GOSPEL of the unique person and finished work of Jesus Christ as integral essential elements of the Gospel which must be believed in order to be saved, all in contradiction to 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. This new and novel “cross-less gospel” in a bottle strips the Gospel of the needed WHO and WHAT that make it so believable.

Thus, we as believers and recipients of the true grace of God must especially focus on these core issues of biblical Christianity as we must “earnestly contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3).

The Good News of Eternal Life as a gift from God is available only by grace alone, through faith alone, in Who Christ is, the Great I Am and What He has accomplished through His death, burial, and resurrection on our behalf.
(1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Romans 4:5; Romans 5:8; John 8:24; 10:25; John 14:6)
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Adapted from an article by Pastor Dennis Rosker, http://www.duluthbible.org