In his magnum opus, The Grace Awakening, Chuck Swindoll presents himself as taking up "the torch of freedom" as brandished by protestant Reformers such as Martin Luther. In this he leads his readers to believe that by following him and his teaching in The Grace Awakening that they are being true to historical Reformation teaching, but is this actually the case?

Conservative pastors such as Anthony T. Evans or Charles R. Swindoll would never knowingly speak a word against God’s law or encourage the immorality it seeks prevent, yet they unwittingly oppose what God promotes.

Preachers like Antony T. (Tony) Evans may appear to stand for truth and the gospel, but if their teaching on salvation by grace allows a professing Christian to continue in willful rebellion against God’s moral law without fear(like that of Dallas Theological Seminary), they destroy with one hand what they attempt to build with the other.