Twentieth-century evangelical doctrinal error teaching that saving faith requires only intellectual assent to the gospel facts (Christ died for sinners; you accept Him as Savior) without the corresponding response of repentance, submission to Christ's lordship, and obedient discipleship. The position emerged primarily in the dispensationalist-evangelical orbit of the mid-twentieth century (Lewis Sperry Chafer, Charles Ryrie, Zane Hodges, the Free Grace movement) and was popularized in evangelical mass-evangelism methodology (the four-spiritual-laws tract; the sinner's prayer; the once-saved-always-saved formula divorced from perseverance). The term easy-believism was coined by John MacArthur and others in the late-twentieth-century Lordship Salvation controversy (MacArthur's The Gospel According to Jesus, 1988, sparked the public debate). The Reformed-confessional position is that saving faith is composed of three integrated elements (knowledge, assent, trust — the Reformed-scholastic notitia, assensus, fiducia) and necessarily involves submission to Christ's lordship and the response of repentance (Acts 2:38; 3:19; 17:30; 26:20; 2 Corinthians 7:10), obedient discipleship (Luke 14:27, whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple), and perseverance in the same (Hebrews 3:14, For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end). The patriarchal-Reformed reader recognizes easy-believism as a major source of contemporary nominal-Christianity confusion and stands with the Lordship-Salvation insistence that saving faith genuinely confesses Christ as Lord and produces obedient discipleship.