#62 - Can 99% Assurance Lead to Maturity?

Charlie spoke abroad and addressed a topic related to assurance. Can a person be 99% sure of their salvation and grow in grace? 

Assurance is a bedrock of our spiritual growth and maturity. Charlie spoke on the problem of assurance deficit disorder plaguing churches today in another podcast, but how does this lack of assurance affect the believer?  What are the real world impacts to the believer in lacking assurance.

Keep in mind, assurance is our understanding of our security in Christ. Can a person be 99% sure? Charlie argues that 99% sure is no assurance at all. Being 99% sure begs the question, do we look to ourselves for salvation or do we rest in the power and promises of God?

GraceLife's slogan is "sharing the gospel of grace with the unsaved, and the grace of the gospel with the saved."  So, in this podcast Charlie emphasizes the last half, helping to ground Christians in the "grip of grace" and moving from doubt to discipleship. A key component to this is assurance.

1 John 5:13 - These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.

For further reading checkout GraceNotes #6 Questions of Assurance From Romans 8