SDA HISTORY - Ellen White's Letter of Gentle Rebuke to A.T. Jones

Patiently correct, rebuke, and encourage your people with good teaching. 2 Timothy 4:2 NIV

"I was attending a meeting, and a large congregation were present..... you were presenting the subject of faith and the imputed

righteousness of Christ by faith. 

You repeated several times that works amounted to nothing, that there were no conditions. 

*The matter was presented in that light that I knew minds would be confused and would not receive the correct impression in reference to faith and works, and I decided to write to you. 

You state this matter too strongly. There are conditions to our receiving justification and sanctification, and the righteousness of Christ. 

I know your meaning, but you leave a wrong impression upon many minds. 

While good works will not save even one soul, 

yet it is impossible for even one soul 

to be saved without good works. 

God saves us under a law, that we must ask if we would receive, seek if we would find, and knock if we would have the door opened unto us." 

E.G.W.