Grace covers me anyway, so what’s the point?” is the sharpest question people ask about the book. This post answers it by showing that grace has two meanings, forgiveness and enabling power, then gives six reasons 1 John 3:9 still matters, using Scripture, Wesley, and the evidence around us.
Read this post →A viral video from Christian Faith Archive says many American megachurches have quietly dropped two doctrines: the reality of hell and the sinfulness of sin. This post checks that claim against Jesus’ words, John Wesley, and Lifeway Research’s 2025 survey data. It ties the result to the book’s Trap Two and to 1 John 3:9.
Read this post →“We’re married in our hearts” is spreading as a way around the biblical standard. This post lines it up against the 95% premarital-sex statistic and the book’s Trap One (it isn’t sin) and Trap Two (nothing will happen). It answers with Jesus, Scripture, Wesley, and Romans 13, and ends with the way back: make it a real marriage or end it.
Read this post →The "Once Saved, Always Saved" debate argues about whether willful sin can cost you your salvation, but it skips the real question. Once willful sin is defined (Hebrews 10:26), why would a believer who knows better, is equipped with the Holy Spirit, and understands the consequences choose to disobey God at all? The post answers the "too tempting" excuse with 1 Corinthians 10:13 and other promises. It argues that zero tolerance for willful sin shuts the debate down at the point where it belongs.
Read this post →John Wesley refused the phrase "sinless perfection" by name in 1759. The line he drew between willful sin and honest mistakes, and what the book's title actually claims.
Read this post →No, the book doesn't claim literal, never-a-mistake sinlessness — it's specifically about willful sin. As for the Greek behind 1 John 3:9: does "does not sin" describe a habit, or a nature? Only one of those actually fits what John wrote — and it's not the one most translations assume.
Read this post →The Greek word behind "confess" means to say the same thing. Confession is agreement with God, not a show of sorrow, and that changes how 1 John 1:9 and James 5:16 read.
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