If every young ministerial student would read the journals of Edwards and Wesley(John) then they would learn to use their time.
No young ministerial students read these two men's journals.
No young ministerial students know how to use their time.
If young theology students would read 1Corinthians 8:1-11:1 they might learn about incarnational* ministry and get a real job.
Young theology students never read 1Corinthians at all.
Young theology students might not learn about incarnational ministry.
*Key passages used to speak of incarnational ministry as a way of contexualization such as 1Cor 8:1-11:1 and Phil 2:5-11 really have very little to do with contexualizing, and more to do with giving up your rights or your supposed rights for the sake of the other, nothing about "relevance," at least the nebulous relevance you hear about often, just relevance in terms of being and doing for another.
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Spurgeon - Salvation as Deliverance
http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/1003.htm
In the above sermon Spurgeon reminds us that salvation has to do with sin guilt and sin enslavement. If one's faith in Christ is not such that they trust him to be a teacher competent to lead them from sin and with power significant to change their hearts then their trust is deficient. This is an excellent sermon. In it we find that his view of atonement is pretty robust:
1. Deliverance from guilt, subjective and objective.
2. Deliverance from the power of sin, going so far as to say that this is the main point of salvation, and we are not being delivered from sin then we have missed the mark.
3. Salvation from the present wrath of God caused by our enmity with him.
4. Salvation from the future wrath of God, namely justification.
I would say that the chief aspect missed out on is the inclusion into the community of the faithful. Not community as a buzz word for post-modern theologians, but community as those with Jesus Christ in common with one another. I think a major portion of the gospel, at least when expounded to the community of the faith is that Jesus is making a new community. But alas, Spurgeon mentions people like me who would criticize a preacher's doctrine before repenting of their own sins. I ought spend time tending to my own salvation.
In the above sermon Spurgeon reminds us that salvation has to do with sin guilt and sin enslavement. If one's faith in Christ is not such that they trust him to be a teacher competent to lead them from sin and with power significant to change their hearts then their trust is deficient. This is an excellent sermon. In it we find that his view of atonement is pretty robust:
1. Deliverance from guilt, subjective and objective.
2. Deliverance from the power of sin, going so far as to say that this is the main point of salvation, and we are not being delivered from sin then we have missed the mark.
3. Salvation from the present wrath of God caused by our enmity with him.
4. Salvation from the future wrath of God, namely justification.
I would say that the chief aspect missed out on is the inclusion into the community of the faithful. Not community as a buzz word for post-modern theologians, but community as those with Jesus Christ in common with one another. I think a major portion of the gospel, at least when expounded to the community of the faith is that Jesus is making a new community. But alas, Spurgeon mentions people like me who would criticize a preacher's doctrine before repenting of their own sins. I ought spend time tending to my own salvation.
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