Pastor John, you are not afraid to define saving faith as seeing and savoring Jesus Christ

as supremely glorious.

You have written sentences like these, quote, receiving Christ as your supreme treasure

is what faith is.

End quote.

Or quote, an essential element of saving faith is treasuring Christ above all things.

End quote.

Quote, faith includes the embrace of Jesus as our all satisfying treasure.

End quote.

And today we have a rather critical email from a listener named Colin who writes

in to say this, Pastor John, forgive me, but I think you've gone off the deep

end in your definition of faith.

Faith is trust, period.

Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness, Romans 4.3.

Definitely loving Jesus more than anything is a necessary fruit of faith,

but not the means of salvation.

Why, Pastor John, have you complicated saving faith?

Well, I share the concern of this question that neither I nor anyone else

should make faith so complicated that a little child can't believe and be saved.

I think God has provided in the Bible to paraphrase John Owen a stream in which

toddlers can wave and an ocean in which elephants can swim, or if you can't

imagine elephants in the ocean, try blue whales, which means that in the Bible,

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