Dear Fellow Believers,

More detail on the two evangels here than you could ever need to defend this Scriptural and sensible teaching to anyone.

Added bonus: With about ten minutes left in the live broadcast, we get an unusual "caller." It's RICARDO JOHNSON. He's technically not a caller, of course, but our in-studio producer.

Ricardo is a kindly yet hardcore Baptist/seminary student who never understood a single word of anything we ever said. After listening to us offering proof after proof of the two gospels, and after two hours of it the night before, Ricardo breaks into the show and says, "I have a question."

He could not believe we were saying that a person who is justified would not have to confess his/her sins in order to be saved. This ought to be self-evident, but with Baptists and especially Baptist/seminary students, nothing is self-evident. Why would anyhone who is declared to be righteous by God then have to beg God to forgive them their sins. WHAT sins?

I confront Ricardo with an uncomfortable question that he uncomfortably can't answer, and so he changes the topic. It's classic evasion. But in case you don't notice it, Rodney dutifully points it out.

This show is LOADED. Having now dissed the Baptist brain of Ricardo Johnson, I give him credit as a producer when, after realizing I've out of song during my "Comment Corner" segment, Ricardo starts up Average White Band's "Pick Up The Pieces" three times in order to let me finish my list of differences between the two gospel. The laughs from the folks at the table are worth the price of admission.

Thanks again to Rodney Paris for a stellar job in keeping up with the machine-gun flow of Scriptural revelation on this broadcast and helping to bring these twenty-five year old messages, with their timeless truths, to a new audience.

Thanks to all of you who continually support this work. The same enthusiasm that launched Grace Cafe over twenty-five years ago fuels every single show I produce today. And none of it would be possible without you.

 Grace, peace, and love from the peninsula,

 Martin