Continue to explore Conversion and Discipleship by Bill Hull. He lists six gospels: 1. The Forgiveness Only Gospel 2. The Left Gospel (Liberalism) 3. The Prosperity gospel 4. The Consumer Gospel 5. The (Religious) Right Gospel and 6. The Kingdom Gospel. Consider that the Forgiveness Only Gospel makes sanctification and discipleship optional. The Prosperity Gospel creates an entitlement mentality. Hull does emphasize the cost of discipleship. He states, “Again, conversion is an event, but it is also a process. John Calvin believed that we are to distinguish justification and sanctification but must never separate them. According to Calvin, justification as a divine acquittal is extrinsic to humans, but the fruits of this justification are then applied to humans by the Holy Spirit. Because the biblical concept of conversion captures the sense of a process, I think it is a helpful corrective to our event oriented notions of salvation. Again, Donald Bloesch is helpful in summarizing the process of conversion: ‘The drama of conversion can be said to unfold in various stages. Conversion continues throughout life as our relationship to God is deepened by the cleansing power of His Spirit. Conversion is therefore both an event and a process in that it entails an initial surrender to Jesus Christ as well as constant fidelity to Him throughout life. It signifies both taking up the cross in the decision of faith and bearing the cross in a life of obedience.’” We read in 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24, “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.” In our gospel teaching we must talk about the indicatives of grace as well as the imperative. In Romans 6:1-4 we read, “What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.”