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CAN YOU LOSE YOUR SALVATION?

Thursday, March 1st, 2012
LET ME ANSWER THAT QUESTION – NO! YOU CANNOT LOSE YOUR SALVATION, IF YOU WERE TRULY SAVED! Q.E.D.

Over the past year, the question of a person falling from grace…and actually losing one’s position as a child of God has been popping up in some of the unlikeliest places.  Just this week, I was also asked this very question. Therefore, in short, let’s try to examine most of the following issues to clear up this matter, once and for all!

There is the issue of the ‘backsliding’ christian.
There are those who simply walk away from Jesus, like Nascar driver Jeff Gordon, who was once the poster boy of the Nascar Christian.
There is also the Role of God’s Holy Spirit in all of this.
For those who say a Christian can lose his/her salvation, their argument revolved around the following short passage: “For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been partakers of the Holy Spirit, and having tasted of the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God, and put Him to open shame.” Hebrews 6:4-6.
Before extrapolating that to Christians today, let us realize this book of Hebrews was written to Jewish Christians in Jerusalem, who were left leaderless when the Jewish priests killed James, the half brother of Jesus. James, author of the great book of James, was the leader of the Jerusalem church.
These believers did not backslide, but were under assault by teachers of the Law to add good works as well as all the ceremonial laws, which Christ did away with on the Cross!
THIS IS THE OPINION OF BERNIE LUTCHMAN, PRESIDENT OF BUSINESS MEN IN CHRIST AND MAY NOT REPRESENT THE OPINIONS OF ALL OUR MEMBERS
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ALL ARE PRECIOUS IN HIS SIGHT!

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

BERNIE LUTCHMAN’S NOTE:
For several years now, the Lord has called my attention to a phenomenal move of His Spirit in the former war-torn territory of Northern Ireland. From it’s amazing worship music led by Robin Mark, Bluetree,  Eoghan Heaslip, Liz Clarke and more to some powerful preaching and in the past year, He has connected me with the folks who run the largest Pro-Life Organization in Northern Ireland – PRECIOUS LIFE!!! It is my honor to partner with them in prayer as we pray for a land where there was so much death and destruction, but now, where the Lord wants to save as many babies as possible. It is my honor to introduce BERNADETTE SMYTH, FOUNDER of Precious Life, Northern Ireland and to ask you to pray for them as we pray for the Pro-Life movement in the USA! This is important as Springfield has a huge Pro-life AND Irish community, as witnessed by the close ties we had with the Emerald Isle, with our late friend and mayor Tim Davlin.  Blessings to this group, from those of us who support life here at Business Men in Christ!

Bernadette Smyth, Founder of Precious Life

Precious Life was founded in 1997 by Bernadette Smyth after viewing a picture of a baby killed by abortion. She was horrified to know that this could happen to a child and decided to do something about it. Since that day, Precious Life has worked tirelessly to keep abortion out of Northern Ireland, and through our activism and campaigning we have saved many babies and their mother’s from the horror of abortion. The emergence of Precious Life has rejuvenated the pro-life community in Northern Ireland into one of the most active and vibrant of movements.

Precious Life is the largest pro-life group in Northern Ireland and the only pro-life group actively working on the streets every day. We are composed of people from all sections of the community who care deeply about unborn children and their mothers. We are non-denominational and non-party political.

Since our formation, there has been a dramatic drop in the numbers of women travelling from Northern Ireland to England for abortion. We believe this is directly attributable to our activism. By exposing the lies surrounding abortion; by educating the public with the truth about abortion; and by campaigning against abortion – we are saving babies, mothers, and indeed this country, from the silent holocaust that is brutally destroying 50 million lives worldwide every year.