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I'm quite happy to hear that he holds to the belief of eternal security. I wasn't aware of that.
No one hates Prince. We hate what he teaches. I used to watch him believe it or not. He doesn't preach the Gospel. He dances around the Gospel, and mentions the Gospel. He never explains the Gospel. It's like he assumes that everyone in his audience is already saved.
What it always boils down to is a bunch of empty words about some vague idea of grace and how God wants us to all be healthy and wealthy. Never hear repentance being preached. Never hear the Cross being preached. And any references to the Gospel are vague and very watered down. He doesn't use a bible when he preaches. He hardly ever reads scripture. When he does, he will often use it out of context and builds a sermon on one or two lines of text.
To the contrary: 1 Cor. 5 [SUP]12 [/SUP]For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church[SUP][a][/SUP] whom you are to judge?
No one hates Prince. We hate what he teaches. I used to watch him believe it or not. He doesn't preach the Gospel. He dances around the Gospel, and mentions the Gospel. He never explains the Gospel. It's like he assumes that everyone in his audience is already saved.
What it always boils down to is a bunch of empty words about some vague idea of grace and how God wants us to all be healthy and wealthy. Never hear repentance being preached. Never hear the Cross being preached. And any references to the Gospel are vague and very watered down. He doesn't use a bible when he preaches. He hardly ever reads scripture. When he does, he will often use it out of context and builds a sermon on one or two lines of text.
To the contrary: 1 Cor. 5 [SUP]12 [/SUP]For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church[SUP][a][/SUP] whom you are to judge?
I'm sorry., It takes me a loooong time to finish a post while here at work. So when you and crossnote posted I had been working on that last one so the "my buddies" comment was about Grace777 and JGIG who don't listen to JP as much as me.
It takes some time to hear someone out forthAngel. I'm afraid you didn't hear Prince out because I get very concrete and solid teaching from him. Current and meaty stuff. He never dances around the Gospel. He reads Scripture all the time. No empty words at all as far as I'm concerned. I've been listening to him for about 3yrs now and find him so interesting I listen to cds in my car from him. He is the first preacher that I heard preach a grace message.
1 Cor.5:12 is talking about the church leaving judgement of unbelievers to God and concentrate on setting it's own house in order. If your in a church situation where you can do this because you know one another. 6:1 we don't take our brothers to the unsaved to be judged. The saints with judge the world because of our union with Christ, we will be associated with Him in this judgment during the millennium (Matt.19:28) we will also judge angels (v.3) 2Peter 2:4,9 Jude 6. Bible commentary Ryrie
About repentance? it has been posted many times especially on Ben's thread about 1John 1:9 Obsession with confession. Prince is not the only grace preacher that discusses repentance. Also about how the Holy Spirit does not convict the believer of sin as crossnote asked for a clarification. I will post in another post here.