Suppose a man who cannot swim falls overboard. Suppose someone in the boat throws him a lifeline and pulls him to safety.
Who or what saved the drowning man? His friend? The lifeline? The life preserver? The boat? Or did the man save himself? The answer, of course, is that his friend saved him, the lifeline, and the life preserver, and the boat saved him. And he also saved himself.
This simple parable helps us understand that it is as foolish to say that we are saved by grace alone, as it would be for the drowning man to claim that any one of the above means saved him without other intervention.
The Bible certainly does teach that we are saved by grace. But it also teaches that God uses means. These means are called by theologians, the “means of grace.”
This video lists several of God’s chosen “means of grace,” and it is intended to be a quick reference and teaching tool. On these pages we have compiled pertinent portions of the pure Word of God to show how God saves us by His grace.
When the truth of salvation by grace is better understood, the doctrine of easy believism loses its siren appeal.
By Simeon Young, Sr.