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Featured, New Focus Magazine, Peter Meney

New Focus Magazine: New Issue (October 2025)

New Issue Available. New Focus promotes the Christ-centred Gospel of God’s free and sovereign grace. It presents the Gospel as the power of God unto salvation and glories in Christ…

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Featured, Peter Meney on Doctrinal Matters

The Particularity Of John 3:16

Whenever the Bible doctrine of election is presented to those who reject the Bible’s teaching of God’s sovereignty in salvation you can be sure John chapter three and verse 16…

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Featured, Jared Smith's Bible Doctrine

38 Bible Doctrine – Confessional Statements And Their Proper Use

I would like to welcome you back to another study in Bible Doctrine. In our previous two studies, I have given a historic and doctrinal overview of John Gill’s Goat…

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Featured, John MacGowan

The Life And Testimony Of John MacGowan

Mr. John MacGowan, known to the world as the author of ‘Dialogues of Devils,’ and other ingenious works, was a Baptist minister, and pastor of the church meeting in Devonshire-square,…

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Featured, William Button

Preface To William Button’s Rebuttal Of Andrew Fuller’s “The Gospel Of Christ Worthy Of All Acceptation”

Mr. Thomas Goodwin, in his address to the reader, annexed to his discourse on the true nature of the gospel, observes, “It concerns every minister of the gospel to put…

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Don Fortner's Articles, Featured

What Does It Mean To Be Reformed?

The sermons from which this tract sprang were preached to the Grace Baptist Church of Danville in Danville, Kentucky - USA, November 2, 1997 by Pastor Don Fortner. The tract is taken directly…

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  • Jared Smith On Various Issues

    5. The Atonement Of Christ Is Sufficient In Its Worth To Save The Non-Elect?

    July 5, 2021 /

      John Piper subscribes to the view that the atonement of Christ is sufficient in its worth to save the non-elect, but efficient in its application to save only those who believe. This gobbledygook is derived from the teachings of Andrew Fuller, who sought to retain the free offer of the gospel, while subscribing to the doctrine of Particular Redemption. To that end, Fuller argued that the atonement of Christ is universal in its value, capable of covering the sins of the entire human race (elect and non-elect). He also maintained that the atonement is particular in its application, covering only the sins of those who savingly believe on Christ. In this way, Fuller could sincerely offer the gospel to the non-elect, for he believed…

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    Further Study

    The Acts Of The Apostles And The Multiplication Of Churches

    August 19, 2024

    The Life and Ministry Of Frank Grimwood

    June 6, 2023

    The First Epistle Of John

    August 22, 2024
  • Jared Smith On Various Issues

    6. It Is The Moral Duty Of All Sinners To Savingly Believe On Christ?

    July 5, 2021 /

      Commenting on Fuller’s doctrine of Duty-Faith, Piper lays the backdrop: “Remember, the objection is: “It is absurd and cruel to require of any man what is beyond his power to perform.” In other words, a man’s inability to believe removes his responsibility to believe (and our duty to command them to believe). In response to this objection, Fuller brings forward the distinction between moral inability and natural inability. This was the key insight which he learned from Jonathan Edwards, and he gives him credit for it on the third page of The Gospel Worthy…Natural inability does in fact remove obligation…But moral inability does not excuse. It does not remove obligation.” Duty-Faith is a doctrine which asserts that it is the duty of unregenerate sinners…

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    Further Study

    Title Page And Preface

    September 20, 2022

    John Gill And The Free Offer Of The Gospel

    October 1, 2025

    The Origin Of The Reformed Baptist Movement In America

    December 21, 2023
  • Jared Smith On Various Issues

    7. High-Calvinists Muzzle The Gospel Cry Of The Bride?

    July 5, 2021 /

      John Piper charges the High-Calvinist with “muzzling the gospel cry of the Bride”: “Hyper-Calvinism had muzzled the gospel cry of the Bride (“The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’ And let the one who hears say, ‘Come.’ And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price,” Revelation 22:17). For the sake of the life of the church and the salvation of the nations, Fuller took up the battle for truth.” Piper’s charge is utter rubbish! I have never met a professing Christian, subscribing to high views of sovereign grace, who believes the gospel should not be fully and freely preached to all sinners. The type of people Piper calls Hyper-Calvinists exist only in…

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    Further Study

    The Life And Character Of Stephen Charnock

    August 12, 2023

    The Gospel According To Matthew

    August 14, 2024

    The Second Letter Of Peter To The Churches Of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia

    July 18, 2024
  • Jared Smith On Various Issues

    8. Andrew Fuller Escaped Hyper-Calvinism By Searching The Scriptures And The History Of Doctrine?

    July 5, 2021 /

      In detailing Andrew Fuller’s search for the truth, Piper says: “[Andrew Fuller] searched both the Scriptures and the history of doctrine to see if he could find this High Calvinism that had so infected and controlled his denomination…” Fuller’s denomination, if that is what it could be called, is a circle of churches known as Strict and Particular Baptists. In his day, most of the churches leaned or stood squarely on high views of sovereign grace. In our day, the Strict and Particular Baptist heritage has been hijacked by the Moderate-Calvinists (Fullerites/Reformed Baptists). They persistently misrepresent the teachings of High-Calvinism, always putting Fuller's newfangled views in a favorable light. They also audaciously rewrite the history of High-Calvinism, claiming to be the standard-bearers of the…

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    Further Study

    Title Page And Preface

    September 20, 2022

    1. High-Calvinists Did Not Like George Whitefield, Because He Preached The Gospel?

    July 5, 2021

    6. It Is The Moral Duty Of All Sinners To Savingly Believe On Christ?

    July 5, 2021
  • Jared Smith's Sermons

    Common Grace

    January 30, 2021 /

    Some of the points covered in this sermon: • The correct view of common grace as it relates to creation • The false view of common grace as it has been appropriated to redemption • The false view of “Christ’s atonement sufficient for all, but efficient to those who believe” • The false view of a twofold atonement—one that is potential, hypothetical and passive; the other that is actual, real and active • The heresy of decisional regeneration—sinner’s prayer, altar calls, etc. • The heresy of duty-faith—that it is the saving and/or moral duty of the unregenerate to believe on Christ • The heresy of the free-offer—that the gift of God in Christ must be offered to the unregenerate, that they may have the opportunity…

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    Further Study

    “My Gospel”

    June 8, 2024

    Church Unity Driven By The Right Principle

    July 30, 2025

    Gill’s “Body Of Divinity” And The Table Of Contents Rearranged

    March 18, 2025
  • Jared Smith On Various Issues

    Thoughts On High-Calvinism Versus Arminianism and Fullerism

    May 14, 2019 /

    The leading issue which distinguishes a High-Calvinist from the Arminians and Fullerites (Moderate-Calvinists) is the subject of God's sovereignty and man's relatedness to Him. Whereas the Fullerite embraces fairly high views of God's sovereignty, yet he remains as confused as the Arminian on the subject of man's relatedness to the Lord. Two Requirements For Having A Relationship With God There are two requirements if man is to have a relationship with God. First, man must be a spirit being. This gives man the ABILITY to have a relationship with God. God is a spirit, and if man is to know God, he must also be a spirit. This is what it means to be made in God's image. God created only two species of spirit…

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    Further Study

    Associations Are The Hiding Places For The Weak And Ignorant

    December 4, 2025

    High-Calvinism and the Strict Baptists

    June 21, 2014

    The Free Offer Of The Gospel

    August 15, 2023
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