After-afternote:
This blog entry has made its way to the Education section of the Singapore Edition of ChristianPost.com
Check out this link entitled NCC Supporters Respond to Antinomianism Article
I have mentioned before on my blog about how the senior pastor of my church made me step down from leadership in July 2007 because he is against the grace message.
Previously, you may have only heard it from me, or fellow church members, or read it on my blog. Well, now he has officially gone on record to declare his stand, and for that, I salute him.
In the latest edition of my church's quarterly newsletter entitled The Beacon, he wrote a 4-page article entitled Salvation Made Easy? A Look into Antinomianism. You can download the pdf version of it here.
Dearest readers, please do read it and give me your feedback, so that we can all learn together on this journey of faith. I have also read it and will be providing my comments on it in a future post.
Afternote: The article is now reproduced in full below...
SALVATION MADE EASY? A LOOK INTO ANTINOMIANISM
by Rev Peter Koh
Pastor-in-Charge, Paya Lebar Methodist Church
As human beings, we are naturally inclined towards the "easy life" and we cleverly devise ways that will help us to achieve such a life. For instance, 'dieting made easy' attracts us because it seems to mean we can eat all we want and yet stay slim. 'Exercise made easy' appeals to us because it seems to mean we can accomplish the benefits of physical exercise, but without the sweat.
In the same way, in our spiritual life, we also like to have 'salvation made easy', which means we are able to go to heaven while still living in sin. In other words, we want to have our cake and eat it too! In our city today, there are churches packed with people who love this 'salvation made easy' theology and this is the subject of this article - antinomianism. Antinomianism refers to lawlessness and the concept of 'salvation made easy'. The "sales pitch" for this is — "You lose nothing while you are on your way to heaven. You can be lawless and go to heaven."
Antinomianism comes from two Greek words: "anti" which means "against" and "nomos" which means "law". The word "antinomianism" means "against the law", against God's moral law, or lawlessness. It is the doctrine that faith in Christ frees the Christian from obligation to observe the moral law set out in the Old Testament.
The opposite of antinomianism is legalism and it is the belief that salvation is based on good works apart from faith and apart from grace. Jesus condemned this view of the Pharisees. Paul condemned this view of the Judaizers, especially in the books of Galatians and Romans. Antinomianism, on the other hand, says salvation is based on faith in God and therefore obedience to God's law is not necessary at any stage in a Christian's life.
The two extreme opposite concepts of legalism and antinomianism are both totally opposed to the teaching of the Bible.
TYPES OF ANTINOMIANISM
In his book Concise Theology, J. I. Packer distinguishes between various types of antinomianism.
A. Dualistic Antinomianism
Firstly, he says, there is dualistic antinomianism. What is dualistic antinomianism? It is based on the Greek idea that man is body and man is spirit, but man's body, being matter, is evil. Salvation is salvation of the soul. There is not going to be any resurrection of the body, because the body is evil. Therefore it does not matter what you do with your body and you may sin to your heart's content. Go ahead! You are saved anyway. This idea is based on the dualistic thinking of the Greeks.
B. Spirit-centred Antinomianism
Secondly, Dr. Packer speaks about Spirit-centered antinomianism. This type of antinomianism believes: "What matters is not what the Scripture tells me. I am a spiritual person, filled with the Holy Spirit. I am above the law of the Scripture. I am led by the Spirit, and the Spirit overrules the Scripture. The Spirit can even contradict the Scripture. I am a spiritual Christian, and I am led by the Spirit. I do what the Spirit tells me, and don't worry about the Holy Scriptures."
This was probably what the man in 1 Corinthians 5 said because the Corinthian church took pride in being charismatic, and some charismatic Christians go astray in this fashion. The Holy Spirit is the author of the Holy Scriptures, and the Spirit leads us into truth. The Holy Spirit will never contradict the Scripture. In fact, he enables us to understand and obey the Scripture. So true spirituality leads us to obey the law of God, not defy it.
C. Liberal Antinomianism
Thirdly, there is liberal antinomianism. Liberals are people who reject the Scriptures as God's word. They have subscribed to the relativism of the secular world, saying that there are no absolutes and that there is no God. Thus, they say, there is no absolute law of God.- ... So they deny the Scripture and live as they please. That is liberal antinomianism.
D. Situational Antinomianism
Fourthly, there is situational antinomianism. Situational antinomianism says that what you need is the inner motive and intention of love. As long as you intend to love, you may disregard the law of God. This type of antinomianism says, "Yes, I love my neighbour's wife, so I can disregard the commands that say, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery' and 'Thou shalt not lust.' I can have an affair, and there is no question about it." Well, this type of idea misrepresents what love is according to the Scripture. It is pure nonsense. True love fulfills God's law by the power of the Holy Spirit.
E. Christ-centered Antinomianism
Fifthly, there is the so-called Christ-centered antinomianism. The idea is that a believer is united with Christ, he is in Christ, and his life is hid with Christ in God. God sees Christ, who kept the law perfectly, and God sees no sin in the believer because God sees him through Jesus Christ. So the believer is therefore able to violate God's law. lt makes no difference to God. But that is all pure nonsense, isn't it?
F. "Jesus is Saviour" Antinomianism
Sixthly, there is a modern type of antinomianism called "Jesus is Saviour" antinomianism. People say that in order to be saved, you must receive Jesus your Saviour, but you do net have to receive him as Lord. So, as a "saved" Christian, you need not obey the Lord Jesus Christ. Your salvation is secure as long as you received Jesus Christ as Saviour by faith once upon a time. No! That is not what the Bible says. "If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." (Romans 10:9) If you are truly repenting before God, you say, "I am sorry that disobeyed you, and I now submit myself to your Son, Jesus Christ, who is the Lord of all." But this type of "Jesus as only Saviour" antinomianism is extremely appealing to, many. Many churches are packed with people who believe this nonsense. They would say this, "Keeping' the moral law is at no stage necessary for a Christian."
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT ANTINOMIANISM
Antinomianism is not new. Throughout history, you find that antinomians passionately violated the law of God. Some even worshiped the devil. They literally gloried in their sin. It was Martin Luther in the sixteenth century who coined this expression, antinomianism, to refer to the views of his friend, Johannes Agricola. Agricola taught that the moral law of God was in no way binding upon those who are justified by faith alone. So Johannes Agricola said Christians are entirely free from the moral law of God.
God anticipated this error, and dealt with it in several places. The New Testament teaching is that a Christian is freed from the law as a way of salvation, and in this sense a Christian is not under the law. Although it is true that no man can keep the whole law in order to be saved, because man is a sinner and is incapable of keeping the law, however, the moral law of God continues to be our guide to holy conduct.
A Christian is justified by grace through faith alone. He has the Holy Spirit, who enables him to obey the law of God. This keeping of the law of God by a Christian is the evidence that he is justified and saved by grace through faith alone in Jesus Christ.
We will now look into the scriptures that deal with this error called antinomianism, or lawlessness.
• Jude 4 says, "For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord." So you see that in the New Testament itself, this heresy was manifested.
• James also deals with this heresy in James 2, beginning with verse 14: "What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds?" Notice the word claims. Any man can claim "I am saved, I am justified". You see that again in 1 John several times. People were making this claim that they were saved, that they were Christians, that they were justified. But James says, "Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, 'Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,' but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. But someone will say, 'You have faith; I have deeds.' Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do. You believe that there is one God? Good! Even the demons believe that and shudder." In other words, the faith of the antinomians, faith without good works, is the faith of the demons.
• In chapter 5 of Galatians, Paul argues for our Christian freedom, and yet he makes this point in the thirteenth verse of Galatians 5: "You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature." You see, people were saying, "We are free! We agree with you, St. Paul, that we are not under law, we are under grace. We are justified by grace through faith alone, and therefore we ought to have no dealings with the moral law of God. The moral law of God is not our guide to holy conduct. In fact, we probably must demonstrate that we are orthodox, that we believe in salvation by grace through faith, by violating God's law. Then we will truly pride ourselves on being people who are saved by grace through faith!"
• In 1 Corinthians 5 there was a certain man living an incestuous life. He was living with his father's wife but the church was not dealing with this person because the church was probably influenced by this heretical idea that if you are saved by grace through faith alone, then it does not matter what you do with your body. So we read, "it is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife." The church among not upset with that. The church was not dealing with fit. Why? Look at 1 Corinthians 6:12. There was a slogan going about the Corinthian church: "Everything is permissible for me. I can do everything. I don't have to concern myself with keeping God's moral law. I am justified by grace through faith alone." Of course, Paul condemned that nonsense.
• And in 1 John 1, John referred to this antinomian heresy in verse 6: "If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not live by the truth." These people were claiming that 'they were saved by grace through faith alone, and that they were not under law anymore. They were now free, and they could do anything they wanted with their bodies - it did not matter.
• Furthermore in 1 John 3:7, John says, "Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray." Friends, antinomianism is not the way of God. It is wandering away from the straight path that God has revealed to us, which is the path of righteousness. "He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work." There were teachers and leaders in New Testament churches who were heretics. They taught this "salvation made easy" idea, that you can go to heaven while sinning to your heart's content as you live in this world!
• Take heed of 1 John 2:18-19 that says, "Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us." In other words, antinomians are antichrists. These were antinomian leaders, antinomian teachers, and they were kicked out. They were disciplined. They were sent out from the church of Jesus Christ in order that the church is kept pure. Antinomianism is a heresy!
• The same thing was said in 2 Peter. 2 Peter, like Jude, was written to combat this heresy of antinomianism. In 2 Peter 2:19, we read: "They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity - for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him." This was the essence of their teaching. No wonder churches, especially those that only preach grace, are filled with people. The preachers are telling them, "You can be a Christian and sin." Everybody likes that, because there is pleasure in sin. Everyone is interested in it.
• Again in the book of Revelation, we find this idea of antinomian teaching. Revelation 2:2 says: "I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false." These were leaders who were going from church to church teaching this antinomian heresy, this nonsense of salvation made easy. Look at Revelation 2:14: "Nevertheless, I have a few things a few things against you: You have people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin by eating food sacrificed to idols and by committing sexual immorality." These teachers were teaching that it was okay to sin to your heart's content. You were still saved. Jesus Christ, the Lord of the church, opposes that teaching.
Friends, ALL forms of antinomianism are condemned by the Scriptures and condemned by God! Antinomians have misunderstood the nature of justification by faith, which, though granted apart from works of the law, is not sanctification. The principles of the law are still valid, not as objective strivings but as fruit of the Holy Spirit at work in the life of the believer.
What is God saying to people who practice antinomianism? 1 Corinthians 6:9-11: "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." What does Revelation 21: 8 say? "But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars - their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."
Antinomianism is a heresy that must be rejected. We are saved by grace through faith alone and we are saved and indwelt by the Holy Spirit in order that we may keep God's law. And keeping the law is the sure evidence that a Christian is justified by grace through faith alone.
God, help us not to believe in antinomianism, but to believe in the true doctrine of the Holy Scriptures, Amen.
11 comments:
Legalism and antinomianism are the extremes. Both are not God-pleasing nor man-benefiting.
Grace is not lawlessness. Grace is the law fulfilled by Christ so that we could live by the Spirit who gives life, rather than by the letter that kills (2 Cor 3:6); so that we could flourish under the ministry of the Spirit, rather than wither under the ministry of death (2 Cor 3:7-8); so that we could lead God-glorying lives under the ministry of righteousness, rather than live self-centered and self-defeating lives under the ministry of condemnation (2 Cor 3:9); so that we could eat from and be nourished by the tree of life rather than by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Law and lawlessness are the extremes. Grace is the middle path - with Christ in the midst, with the Cross at the center, where God's justice and mercy kissed, where Jesus is glorified and the church edified.
Just like how some people don't appreciate the difference between being full of cares, being carefree and being careless, some are also confused about law, grace and lawlessness.
When we share about living a carefree life in Christ (rather than a care-filled life), they assume we are teaching people to live carelessly and irresponsibly.
When we share about living under grace (rather than under the law), they assume we are telling people to break the law and live licensciously.
They equate grace with lawlessness. They equate being carefree with being careless.
But such a conclusion is not accurate.
The fact is, we are just sharing what the Lord teaches us in the Bible: to live a Christ-centered, Heavenly-Father-dependent, Holy-Spirit-led life is to live a carefree life under grace, fully conscious of a gracious God who always cares (1 Peter 5:7).
The more we are conscious of the graciousness and loving kindness of our Lord God, the more we love to be in His presence. The more we abide in His Holy presence, the more we become transformed into His image, from glory to glory (2 Cor 3:18).
Legalism and antionmianism both fall short of God's glory. To live under the law is missing the mark. To live in lawlessness is also missing the mark.
Living under the law (relying on the arms of flesh) and living in lawlessness (indulging in the lusts of the flesh) are both sin, because the Bible tells us that whatever is not of faith is sin (Rom 14:23).
Grace is the antidote to sin.
The more we appreciate the grace and truth that came by Jesus (John 1:17), the more we fall in love with Him, and the more more we fall out of love with sin.
When we truly understand God's grace and choose to live under grace, sin shall have no dominion over us (Romans 6:14).
Hi Malcolm,
For the concluding verses, I actually have something against them - that 1 Cor 6 wasn't quoted fully. If you read on, it actually reads: "And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God."
What I understand from here is that your identity isn't dependent on what you do.
As for churches that preach grace and saying "You can be a Christian and sin", my response is this: You can teach that you can be a christian and you cannot sin from now on, but that's not going to stop a christian from sinning.
Let's look at James then, since a lot of preaches like to use James against the teaching of grace. People like to jump to the middle of James straight away, but let's start from the very beginning. After his greeting, James is written, "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."
It may be a bit hard to get through what I want to say with a standard NIV translated verse, so I'll use a Message translation of the same verses of James 1:2-4, which reads, "Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way."
My point is this - James from the start writes about the life of faith. That faith WORKS - faith produces deeds. You don't force deeds out just to show that you have faith.
Bible verses I know not much, but by believing the Grace Gospel, Lord is leading me in all areas of my life. I used to be pretty proud and Lord crushed that too.
What I can say about those who come against the Grace Gospel to call it easy way out is that they have never experience The Grace of God.
It's sad that someone from a church that teaches on Law here, actually tell me they are not looking at the blessed life of God. What I told this lady was, daily, we face our trial, if we could get Lord to help us clear it, why not? She agree with this though.
Her husband was so absorbed Lord preaching thru me to Him about the words of Christ that NCC preaches that he almost wanted to follow me to other section of the MRT. His wife stopped him...haha...
Hi Mal,
Thanks for putting up the article, it is easier to read compared to the pdf version.
I will be making comments on the article paragraph by paragraph. I will also be putting the article and my comments on my blog too, hope you don't mind.
For now, I will start with the article's first 2 paragraphs.
Rev PK said that as human beings we are naturally inclined towards the easy life. He raised the examples of "dieting made easy" and "exercise made easy" which appeal because they require no effort.
I disagree because I think that by default, we human beings tend to think that we must pay a price for everything. A popular saying in Singapore is "there is no such thing as a free lunch".
I think this is ingrained in us because of the curse of Adam - Genesis 3:19 "By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground,"
If someone approached you along Orchard Road and told you that you will receive $1,000 just by filling up your particulars in a form, will you believe him? This is easy money but most people's natural response will be scepticism. They will be thinking: "This is too easy. What is the catch?"
Similarly, many people especially Christians find it hard to accept "salvation made easy". They cannot accept that they can go to heaven simply because Jesus has already paid the price for sin for them on the cross.
If this "salvation made easy" is so easy to sell, then there should be a lot of such churches around but the reality is that in Singapore and all around the world there are a lot more "traditional" churches.
Rev PK says "salvation made easy" means we are able to go to heaven while still living in sin. I disagree with that definition.
Firstly, salvation is easy because God made it easy for us - Romans 10:9 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." The difficult part has been done by Jesus. Our easy part is to confess with our mouth and believe in our heart.
Secondly, a Christian who is truly saved has died to sin, so how can he still be living in sin? He is living a new life in Christ - Romans 6:2-4 "Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it? Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death? For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives."
Rev PK by his definition of "salvation made easy" betrayed his worldly point of view. Rev PK still treats the sinner who has received his salvation as a sinner, albeit forgiven. Therefore, he assumes that the forgiven sinner wants to continue living in sin if there are no eternal consequences.
However, that sinner is no longer a sinner after he has received Christ. He is a new creation; his old life is no more!
2 Corinthians 5:14-17
For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
By his definition of "salvation made easy", Rev PK is implying that he does not agree that we are able to go to heaven while still living in sin. In other words, he's saying that holy living (i.e. keeping God's law) is a must if we want to be able to go to heaven. However, this contradicts his concluding remarks in the 2nd last paragraph that we are saved by grace through faith alone.
If we are saved by grace through faith alone, then whether we keep God's law or not does not affect our getting into heaven.
Rev PK says "keeping the law is the sure evidence that a Christian is justified by grace through faith alone" but which bible verse confirms that?
Romans 10:10 says "For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved" - believing and speaking i.e. faith, nothing about keeping the law.
We are made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. If we still need to keep the law so that we are able to get to heaven, then there was no need for Christ to die.
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Galatians 2:15-16,21 (NLT)
15 “You and I are Jews by birth, not ‘sinners’ like the Gentiles. 16 Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law."
21 I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die.
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Paul himself said that when he tried to keep the law, it condemned him. Therefore he died to the law - stopped trying to meet all its requirements - so that he might live for God. His old self has been crucified with Christ, it is no longer he who lives but Christ lives in him. In fact, Paul says that he is a sinner when he tries to keep the law after he has already torn it down through faith in Christ.
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Galatians 2:17-20 (NLT)
17 But suppose we seek to be made right with God through faith in Christ and then we are found guilty because we have abandoned the law. Would that mean Christ has led us into sin? Absolutely not! 18 Rather, I am a sinner if I rebuild the old system of law I already tore down. 19 For when I tried to keep the law, it condemned me. So I died to the law—I stopped trying to meet all its requirements—so that I might live for God. 20 My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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Law vs Grace :)
His grace is SUFFICIENT for us! Amen?
http://cyberanger.blogspot.com/2009/01/grace-vs-law-simplified-in-maths.html
Hi Malcom,
Rev. Peter Koh misses the point if he is directly responding to JP's teaching.
Koh wrote:
...we also like to have 'salvation made easy', which means we are able to go to heaven while still living in sin. In other words, we want to have our cake and eat it too! In our city today, there are churches packed with people who love this 'salvation made easy' theology and this is the subject of this article - antinomianism. Antinomianism refers to lawlessness and the concept of 'salvation made easy'. The "sales pitch" for this is — "You lose nothing while you are on your way to heaven. You can be lawless and go to heaven."
JP has again and again emphasize in his book Destined to Reign that he is against sinful living.
And the term "antinomianism" is anything but an anachronism. And J.I Packer's categories, which Koh alludes, don't help to shed light on this issue because St. Paul was not having those categories in his mind!
What St. Paul was dealing with in his time is not discussed in the article, which is vital to understand the message of 'grace'.
My two cents.
I don't think this article gets to the root issue of why people are so critical of New Creation church. Nor do I think it gets to the root issue of the debate regarding antinomianism, although people have understood that term differently.
My thoughts on New Creation being accused of antinomianism is here. My understanding of the biblical gospel is that if you preach it correctly, you’ll be accused of antinomianism, as my quote of Lloyd-Jones demonstrates. But being accused of antinomianism is NOT the same as believing in it. As Sze Zeng pointed out, Prince is very clear that he’s against sinful living. One difference between New Creation and those critical of them is the route to promoting godliness. NCC believes in preaching grace to transform lives - i.e. the motivation to live for God and the route to transformation is in understanding the greatness of God’s grace. Others may believe too much focus on grace destroys our motivation to live godly lives.
This debate really is a conversation in a vacuum based in a time warp, when people knew what antinomianism is. To bad Wesley didn't dump all of Calvinism and it self serving circular reasoning. All that call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Let God decide the wheat from the chaff.
Pastor Bill Langill
I do not claim to represent New Creation Church (NCC), but based on what I know and understand of the church, I would like to contribute my 2-cent worth to clarify the misunderstanding and allegation that NCC is teaching lawlessness/ anitnomanism:
1. NCC is AGAINST SIN, and is therefore against the breaking of God’s law.
2. NCC is FOR GOD’S LAW - for the purpose the law was given, i.e. to show forth the sinfulness of man and to convince man of his need for Jesus as his Saviour.
3. NCC is against the teaching that man must, and therefore should try to, keep God’s law to become righteous and to be blessed by God. NCC teaches that man can never, and therefore need not even try to, keep God’s law (in full, which is the only way to keep God’s law), to become righteous and be blessed by God.
4. NCC believes and teaches that it is ONLY by receiving God’s grace in the Person of Jesus Christ, that man can overcome sin and become righteous.
5. NCC believes that a person under law and in bondage, will TRY TO and will FAIL TO keep God’s law, whereas a person under God’s grace and in true liberty, will WANT TO and will GET TO love God and to love his neighbours.
Hi Malcolm,
My advice is dont get too much into these pharasises argument. We believe there is only one Gospel, which is the gospel of grace. There's no other way to salvation except His grace. Whoever wants to stay in the law and stay in bondage, let them be. Jesus himself said to his disciples in Mark 6:11"And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a testimony against them."
The gospel is God's message, and He does not need to get us to prove him, He will prove Himself.
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