Steve,

You had written:

The Lordship of Christ is absolutely central to the gospel

30 to 35 years ago, in the Chicago area, there were a number of people who were saying that Jesus was their Saviour, but not yet their Lord.

I remember being dumbfounded whenever I heard that.

A lot of that came from the "seeker sensitive" churches.

In order to be "sensitive" to the "seekers", certain topics were carefully avoided: hell, damnation, fire & brimstone, eternal judgment, etc.

Also, apparently so was repentance (I was guilty of holding back on mentioning repentance, back then, as well).

The results took a while to be seen, but the, "Jesus as Saviour, but not as Lord", appeared to be one of those results.

The Hatfield-McCoy camps formed, and the accusation of, "Lordship salvation", was bantered about, then, like the term, "racist", is today.

I don't know if things like that happened where you live, or not, but it may have been similar, by the way you write about this.

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