Putting a Label on Lordship Salvation: Weak Grace!

I was listening to Christian radio the other day and the song "Your Grace is Enough" by Chris Tomlin came on. It impressed upon me the truth that God's grace is enough for us even when we sin. God's grace will not run out on us when we sin. I thought of the Bible verse that says, "But where sin increased, grace increased all the more" (Romans 5:20, NIV). The idea is that God's grace super-increased or super-abounded! 

According to the Bible, God’s grace is greater than man's sin. The Apostle James tells us that God "gives a greater grace" (James 4:6, NASB). Whenever and wherever sin increases, grace increases all the more! Grace is stronger than sin. Grace is greater than sin.  In contrast to the biblical understanding of God's grace, Lordship Salvation (LS) preaches a weak, watered-down version of biblical grace. Lordship Salvation holds to what I call "Weak Grace". 

According to Lordship Salvation, sin nullifies grace! According to LS, sin conquers grace! How so? LS teaches that if a person who claims to be a Christian sins bad enough or sins for a long enough period of time, then that person was never really saved to begin with. LS says that person's conversion was not really genuine, and that person is showing by their sinful lifestyle that they were never really saved. But what about God's grace? Did it run out? Is God's grace so weak that it cannot save? By no means! For the Scripture says, "Listen! The LORD’S arm is not too weak to save you" (Isaiah 59:1, NLT). Sin can break fellowship but it can never break the relationship between Father and son, erring though he may be. And so we see that the LS position teaches a weak, watered-down, and distorted version of biblical grace. We need to understand the apostle Paul's admonition to Timothy, "You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus" (2 Timothy 2:1, NASB).