hyper-grace

Who Invented the Word Hypergrace?

February 27, 2020 // 27 Comments

Who was the first person to coin the word hypergrace? It wasn’t the Apostle Paul. Sure, he described God’s grace as hyper-super-abounding, but he was writing in Greek. Who was the first to say it in English? Hypergrace. Who said it first? It wasn’t me. Not even close. So who was it? Seriously, I would like [...]

Let’s get Hypergrace into the Dictionary

December 5, 2019 // 27 Comments

The English language has about 200,000 words, yet one word is missing from the dictionary. That word is hypergrace. Why don’t we change that? Why don’t we put hypergrace into the dictionary? Hypergrace is an important word. It’s a unique word. It’s a word many of us love and many more of us have used. [...]

Does the Hypergrace Gospel Encourage Sin?

March 16, 2017 // 44 Comments

Preach the scandalous grace of God and some will misinterpret your message as an endorsement of sin. It’s practically inevitable. But those who dismiss grace as a license to sin merely show their ignorance of it. As John Calvin may have said, “How can the medicine that’s supposed to kill the disease (grace) [...]

Who are the Hypergrace Preachers?

September 22, 2016 // 148 Comments

Hypergrace, according to some, is a dangerous and unbiblical teaching that is leading people down a licentious path to hell. Apparently the “rock-star preachers” promoting this hypergrace heresy will be “held accountable for the spiritual death of millions.” By proclaiming God’s unconditional love and [...]

Is Hypergrace Biblical?

September 13, 2016 // 104 Comments

Hypergrace, according to a mainstream Christian news magazine, is a dangerous and unbiblical teaching. By proclaiming the unconditional love of God and forgiveness for all, hypergrace preachers have taken grace too far. We have made grace unbalanced and radical. According to some, hypergrace is unbiblical and [...]

8 Signs that a Church Doesn’t Get Grace

July 7, 2016 // 136 Comments

Church with police tape
A while ago I listed eight signs of a hypergrace church. A hypergrace church preaches the unconditional love of God and the undiluted gospel of grace. A hypergrace church is so focused on Jesus that it begins to look like Jesus, talk like Jesus, and smell like Jesus. To highlight a positive it helps to accentuate [...]

Is Grace a License to be Lazy?

June 15, 2016 // 29 Comments

One of the complaints made against the gospel of grace is that it promotes sin and slothfulness. Those who say such things know little about the grace of God that empowers us to reign in life. Elsewhere I have addressed the misperception that grace is a license to sin. Today I want to look at its evil [...]

Michael Brown and his grace controversy

May 4, 2016 // 139 Comments

The hyper-grace gospel that Jesus revealed declares that God loves you with an unconditional love. His grace for you is, to quote the apostle Paul, hyper- or super-abounding (Rom 5:20). The gospel of God’s grace is the good news that this world needs to hear, but according to some this message is controversial, [...]

Myth: Hypergrace Preachers Disregard the Words of Jesus

March 4, 2015 // 29 Comments

“Hyper-grace preachers say the words of Jesus are not for us. They have no authority and are irrelevant to the modern church.” One of the strangest claims made against hyper-grace preachers is that we are dismissive of the pre-cross teachings of Jesus. In point of fact, hyper-grace preachers are the only ones [...]

Some Honest Answers for Michael Brown

January 24, 2015 // 354 Comments

CharismaNews has just published an article entitled “Some honest questions for Joseph Prince.” In it Michael Brown puts 11 questions to “Pastor Prince and those who embrace the modern grace message.” Unlike Pastor Prince, I’m not a busy man. I don’t have to preach four or five times this Sunday. So I [...]

Does the Grace Gospel Make Us Lazy?

December 11, 2014 // 91 Comments

“Grace is a soft gospel for soft Christians,” say the critics. “Grace promotes passivity and laziness.” It does? I guess somebody forgot to tell Paul: By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that [...]

Is it wrong to ask God for forgiveness?

November 13, 2014 // 111 Comments

“Beware the grace Pharisees who jump on you if you dare to ask God for forgiveness. They will say you’re operating in unbelief and legalism.” This claim is sometimes made against those who preach grace. Because we say God has forgiven all your sins, apparently it’s wrong to ask him to forgive you. [...]

What Pleases the Lord?

October 22, 2014 // 51 Comments

Scripture exhorts us to “find out what pleases the Lord” (Eph 5:10). Do you know what pleases the Lord? You do! You are his dearly-loved child and your heavenly Father is thrilled to bits with you. You need to know this otherwise you will spend your life trying to earn what you already have. You’ll fall [...]

Does the Hypergrace Gospel Promote Lawlessness?

September 9, 2014 // 174 Comments

Yet another article has come out in CharismaNews maligning the hypergrace gospel and those of us who preach it. In it, Daniel Norris worries that preaching grace without the law leads to the sort of lawlessness that Jesus said “would abound in the last days” (Matt. 24:12). The implication is that those [...]

Are Grace Preachers are Against Confession?

September 4, 2014 // 72 Comments

“Hypergrace preachers say it’s wrong to confess sins. They say confession is a form of unbelief.” Ever heard that? It’s not true. Every hyper-grace preacher believes in the power of confession. We say things like, “confession is good for you,” and “confession is healthy.” But what is [...]

Are Hypergrace Preachers Opposed to Repentance?

August 20, 2014 // 52 Comments

“Hypergrace preachers say there’s no need for repentance. They dismiss repentance as unbelief.” Actually, hypergrace preachers are for repentance. We say things like “repentance is essential” and “repentance is to be our lifestyle.” We are for repentance, for without it no one can receive the grace [...]

The Hyper-Grace Quiz

August 13, 2014 // 104 Comments

In the past few months, there has been an aggressive backlash against the gospel of grace. This backlash has been seen in the Christian media, social media, and in the publication of books by respected Bible teachers. I have come across articles with titles like “Confronting the error of hyper-grace,” “The [...]

How to Recognize the Hypergrace Gospel

May 15, 2014 // 39 Comments

The hyper-grace gospel declares that God’s love for you is unconditional and his grace is superabounding. It’s the how much mores that Jesus spoke of and the grace upon grace that John wrote of. The hypergrace gospel is easy to recognize for it is nothing more than boasting about Jesus—who he is and what he [...]

How to Recognize a Mixed-Grace Gospel

May 8, 2014 // 100 Comments

In churches every week, you will hear one of two messages. You will either hear a mixed-grace gospel or you will hear the hypergrace gospel. Do you know how to tell the difference? A mixed-grace gospel combines the unmerited favor of God with the merited wage of human-effort. “You are saved by grace but you [...]

May the grace be with You

May 4, 2014 // 28 Comments

This week I made six Star Wars movies. Well, they weren’t actual movies, more like short video clips riffing on the theme of Hyper-Grace. Here’s the first one:   Why did I make these clips this week? Because today is Star Wars Day, of course, and “May the Fourth be with you.” Geddit? I am reminded of [...]

One Church, Two Gospels?

May 2, 2014 // 38 Comments

In the church today there are two gospels competing for the hearts and minds of hearers: 1. Mixed-grace gospel: You are saved by grace but sanctified by works2. Hyper-grace gospel: You are saved by grace and sanctified by grace What is a mixed-grace gospel? It’s the message that you are saved by grace but kept [...]

Pictures of Hyper-Grace

April 15, 2014 // 28 Comments

Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, Your justice like the great deep. (Ps. 36:5–6) We can see from Scripture that God’s love and grace are hyper; they extend over, beyond, and above what you can conceive or imagine (see [...]

What is Hyper-Grace?

April 10, 2014 // 46 Comments

To Hyper-Grace and Beyond
Here’s something you may not know about grace: Jesus never defined it. As far as we know, the Lord of grace who came from the throne of grace full of his Father’s grace, and from whom we have received grace upon grace, never uttered the word grace. But he sure showed it. Actions speak louder than words. Jesus [...]

‘The Hyper-Grace Gospel’ – out today!

April 8, 2014 // 43 Comments

I wrote my latest book by accident. It’s called The Hyper-Grace Gospel and it’s out today. You can find it on Amazon. My new book has an interesting back-story. After reading Michael Brown’s recent book opposing the “modern grace message,” I decided to jot down a few notes for E2R readers. In his book [...]

8 Signs of Hypergrace Churches

February 7, 2014 // 384 Comments

Charisma Magazine recently published an article entitled “8 signs of hyper-grace churches.” (Update: The article has been removed, but you can find it on the WayBack Machine.) Using words like “decline” and “distorted” and “sexually immoral” the article argued that churches built on the message of [...]

There is no grace camp

February 26, 2013 // 158 Comments

I want to thank those of you who took the time to comment on my Michael Brown post over the weekend. That post evidently resonated with many. Within 48 hours of publication it had attracted 250 comments. To put that in perspective, that’s almost as many comments as the original CharismaNews article got in a [...]

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