Elkins, Steve

Steve Elkins (BBA, SMU; Th.M., Dallas Seminary) served on Young Life staff for over twenty-five years, and for the past eight as pastor of Believers Bible Church, Corsicana, Texas. Steve's mentor was the great scholar and exegete, Zane Hodges, who taught him the intricacies of the free-grace message. When one settles on the primacy of John's Gospel for understanding the Gospel of eternal life, the difficulties melt away for understanding Christian life passages, reward passages, discipleship, warnings, etc--and not confusedly mixing them in with Gospel passages. As one free-grace writer says,