This book explores the Westminster Confession of Faith’s claim that “there is no ordinary possibility of salvation” outside of the church by asking what it means, whether it is biblical, and why it is important. Ryan McGraw concludes that the Westminster Confession rightly stresses the primary role of the church in bringing people to salvation, without making this claim absolute.
We should love the church because Christ loved it and gave Himself for it. He died for the church so that we might live in and with it. And it is through the church that He ordinarily brings people to Himself. Let us study this subject with our Bibles in our hands, the Spirit in our hearts, prayer on our lips, and our forefathers helping us along.
Ark of Safety, The, The: Is There Salvation Outside of the Church is in the following collections:
