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Question 9

Bercot insists that some people in “wrong systems” are still truly saved because “having the right answer isn’t what’s going to save you… it’s actually having the relationship”; how should that reshape the way your group talks about other denominations, evaluates testimonies, and decides what errors are “stumbling” and what errors are simply inconsistent with someone’s lived allegiance to Jesus?

Another way to ask: If being saved is more about relationship with Jesus than having perfect answers, how should that change how you talk about other denominations and decide which mistakes are truly dangerous?

Direct Answer Based on Bercot’s teaching, your group should speak about other denominations with humility: the decisive issue is whether someone is truly “abiding in Jesus Christ” in an obedient love-faith relationship, not whether they can articulate the right theological formula. At the same time, Bercot still warns against spreading wrong teaching because it can “stumble other people and cost them their eternal life.”

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He acknowledges many in “man-made systems” still have a genuine OLFR: “I’ve met many, many evangelicals… people in the old orders… works of various Catholics… had such… relationship.”
Key line: “Having the right answer isn’t what’s going to save you… It’s actually having the relationship that saves you.”
He says someone can explain salvation “totally wrong” yet be saved because they are “abiding in Jesus Christ.”
But he adds a guardrail: “we don’t want to spread wrong teaching that would then stumble other people and cost them their eternal life.”
He stresses starting with Jesus and giving “full weight to every verse,” implying we should evaluate testimonies by lived obedience to Jesus’ commands.

Discussion Follow-ups What questions would help you discern “abiding” without becoming cynical or overly suspicious? How can you correct doctrinal error firmly while still recognizing possible genuine allegiance to Christ?

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