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Last October I wrapped up my eight-part series on Biblical discernment (parts 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and 8), and I thought I would now, in retrospect, add a brief postscript to that series simply demonstrating that my position is not novel.
A couple years ago Scott Aniol introduced to me Matthew Henry’s [...]
Continue Reading →This entry is part 29 of 32 in the series Toward Conservative Christian Churches
The religious scene of the country in which I minister is populated by mainline Protestant churches, some of whom place great emphasis on tradition. However, in many of these churches, the gospel itself is all but invisible, an assumed but unseen foundation of the house. The problem is, most of those in the house have [...]
Continue Reading →This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Discernment for the Glory of God
I was pushed to write a series on discernment when I heard a famous evangelical pastor define discernment as the ability to see, allegedly by the Spirit of God, obscene things on a kind of imaginary “movie screen.” Continue Reading →
This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Discernment for the Glory of God
I have been arguing for the importance of discernment in the life of a Christian. I define discernment as a biblically informed judgment whether certain extra-biblical moral actions are good or evil. As we have seen there are an impressive testimony of Scripture to the importance of this biblical discipline: Continue Reading →
An interesting online discussion has emerged in the past few weeks about the issue of not singing a particular song in a service when that song expresses sentiments you do not believe to be true.
The discussion began with Roger Olson, who argued that we should not sing a song when the [...]
Continue Reading →This entry is part 6 of 8 in the series Discernment for the Glory of God
Discernment is a biblically informed judgment whether certain extra-biblical moral actions are good or evil. Last week, we looked at discernment in Eph 5:7-11 and pushed forward our argument that discernment is a crucial element of New Testament ethics. This argument is sound (and I am not the first to make it), and it [...]
Continue Reading →This entry is part 25 of 32 in the series Toward Conservative Christian Churches
Once a pastor has it settled in his mind that sola Scriptura does not require him to ignore, dismiss or reject extra-biblical sources of knowledge, he may safely walk through God’s world and examine it, knowing that it is, indeed, his Father’s world.
A pastor should become personally fascinated with meaning. How [...]
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