
Secure in his grip?
Can you stop being a Christian? Is it possible, for whatever reason, to wriggle out of God’s grip? This was the question I faced yesterday on hearing of a funeral for someone who had been a committed Christian in his younger days. It seems that knowing his end was near, he had arranged a humanist funeral where Jesus was not invited. As it happened I had been reading only that morning of what the Puritans call “the perseverance of the saints.” AKA “once saved, always saved.