Direct Answer
David Bercot teaches that we are saved by faith and must also live obediently to receive eternal life on Judgment Day. Many Protestant churches call that works salvation. He touches this topic briefly and does not develop a full teaching on grace.
Support from the Message
- He says he sees two phases of salvation when he reads the Bible, and that this is very clear to him. - He has been told many times he is not a Christian because of this, though he has never used that label himself. - He says the Bible teaches that the unfaithful who do not produce fruit are cut off from the vine. - He tells of a preacher who only read scriptures in a Sunday night service, and a woman stood up to ask whether he was doubting eternal security. - Early Christianity centered on an obedient love-faith relationship with Jesus Christ.
Discussion Follow-up
What happens in your own thinking when you read a warning in Scripture? Do you take it at face value or explain it away?