I am absolutely “joy-filled” at the character,courage and integrity of the SBC leadership for holding Perry Noble publicly accountable for perverting the 10 commandments into promises in order to make them more palatable to unbelievers in his church.
The seriousness of the SBC rebuke came with the threat of excommunication from the convention should Noble refuse to correct his heretical teachings. Bam!
..Hoping to bring more people to Jesus, Noble asked those at the worship service to view the 10 Commandments not as rules they have to keep in order to be Jesus followers but as promises that they can receive when they accept Christ.
Info-graphics have returned in popularity in recent years. They have been commonly used to show data regarding the weather, route maps and graphs for statistical information. Their purpose is to integrate substantive information so that visual capacity is enhanced for absorbing multiple and diverse levels of detail in a condensed structure.
Tim Challies created his own version of “Visual Theology” of things relating to the Christian faith: The order of salvation, the attributes of God, the Trinity, the Atonement, Reformed theology, the books of the Bible.
You can see the complete list here. Either way, I have found his “Visual Theology” most helpful.
Whatever belief system one embraces, this poem should describe all men who represent Christ the King!
Written by John Piper performed with the help of Matt Chandler, R. C. Sproul, D. A. Carson, Thabiti Anyabwile, Alistair Begg, and Sinclair Ferguson.
I am a firm believer in Al Mohlers Theological Triage. Simply put, there are three levels of theological urgency.
First level doctrines are absolutes that are non-negotiable such as inspiration of scripture, virgin birth, deity of Christ,justification by faith alone, the resurrection, and the gospel of Christ. Denial of one or all is clear denial of the Christian faith. This means we should never fellowship with,embrace, or sanction anyone who denies cardinal doctrines of the faith.
Second level beliefs are those that distinguish one church or denomination from another. These involve issues such as frequency of the Lord’s table, mode of baptism, continuationism, cessationistionism, complimentarian, egalitarian. These things may identify and distinguish but must never become grounds for close fellowship and certainly should never become the “litmus test” for whether one is viewed as being Christian.
Third level doctrines are non-essential beliefs. What time your church service starts, multisite video campuses, eschatological beliefs regarding pre-mid-post tribulation period, and views about the millennium.
John MacArthur has elevated second tier beliefs regarding charismatic gifts to first level essentials for defining who is and is not Christian. To borrow a friends term, that’s just Poppycock!
MacArthur is “off the gospel reservation” and is guilty of causing the very chaos he is supposedly warning others about. I say this as one who has throughly enjoyed his ministry over the years and have greatly benefited by his commitment to sound exegesis.
The arrogance of MacArthur leveling charges at all charismatic continuationist today as his means for rejecting us as “christian”, when the first century Corinthian church was guilty of the same fleshly chaos and even worse culpable behaviors and yet the Apostle Paul called them Redeemed Saints, the Temple of God, and brothers in Christ.
With that said, here are some of the best responses to the Strange fire conference.
In February of 2013, three biblical scholars set out to debate three separate views of Revelation in Reno, Nevada.
>Dr. Sam Waldron, academic dean of Midwest Center for Theological Studies and professor of systematic theology discussed the Idealist position.
>Gary DeMar, M. Div, Reformed Theological Seminary discussed the (partial) Preterist position.
>Dr. James Hamilton, Asst. Professor of biblical studies, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary discussed the futurist position.
What happened however turned out not to be a typical talking head debate on the book of Revelation.
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Do Christians Really Believe In The Return Of Christ?