Free Grace Women

Introduction:

Over the summer, Free Grace Women launched a group project on our Facebook page. We asked you to bring verses, insights, and reflections around key Free Grace issues. Our aim is to provide resource pages on certain topics that Free Grace folks often face. Sadly, we live in a world quick to misrepresent Free Grace theology. It is our desire that our answers to these attacks come not from human cleverness but from the Word of God.

Over the next few months, we’ll be sharing the fruit of this project here on the blog—a collection of passages, comments, and resources that reflect both the truth of Scripture and the heart of our community.

Prompt One:

Many attack Free Grace theology, claiming that it promotes a sinful lifestyle. The Scriptures are clear that we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus for the gift of eternal life which cannot be lost (John 3:16; 5:24; 6:40, 47). While we cannot lose eternal life by sinning, this does not mean that we should live an immoral lifestyle.

Our very first prompt tackled that very accusation:

“Doesn’t this theology promote sin?”

Here’s how some of you responded:

• A.H. shared Psalm 69:6 (NKJV): “Let not those who wait for You, O LORD God of hosts, be ashamed because of me; Let not those who seek You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel.” Her verse highlights the weight of our witness—our choices affect how others see the Lord. The New Testament echoes this theme: “having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation” (1 Peter 2:12, NKJV). Peter also urges us to be “always ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear” (1 Peter 3:15, NKJV). And Jesus Himself declared, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:16, NKJV). Our testimony isn’t just spoken—it’s lived before the watching world.
• S.A. pointed us to Paul’s words:
  • “All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any” (1 Corinthians 6:12, NKJV).
  • “All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify” (1 Corinthians 10:23, NKJV).
    These verses remind us that while salvation is secure, freedom must be stewarded. Our choices should build up rather than tear down.
• M.L. reminded us that sin itself is enslaving:
  • “Jesus answered them, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin’” (John 8:34, NKJV).
  • “But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness” (Romans 6:17–18, NKJV).
  • “For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another” (Titus 3:3, NKJV).
  • “His own iniquities entrap the wicked man, and he is caught in the cords of his sin” (Proverbs 5:22, NKJV).

Sin may promise freedom, but it binds and destroys. As children of God, we can either be led by the Spirit or by the flesh. The latter will result is enslavement. In short, the issue is the quality of our life, not whether we have eternal life.

• K.Y. also reminds us that while believers cannot lose eternal life, they can shame their Savior at the judgment seat of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:10, NKJV). It should be the desire of every believer to hear, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.” Our goal is not to earn eternal life—that is a free gift—but it should be our earnest desire to seek His approval when we stand before Him and give an account of our lives.
• For another resource on this topic, check out this blog by Bob Wilkin: Does Free Grace Give People a License to Sin?  – Grace Evangelical Society

This is just the beginning. Each post in this series will highlight a key question, along with the verses and insights our community offered. Our hope is to create not only a resource but a reminder: God’s grace is never a license to sin, but the very power to live in light of who we already are in Christ.

Stay tuned—the conversation we started together this summer is only just beginning.