Dr. Thom Rainer from LifeWay news release:
My passionate desire is to be a bridge builder in the Southern Baptist Convention. Not to compromise biblically. Not to be soft in my theology. I desire true collaboration with those of uncompromising biblical certitude to reach a lost world with the gospel of our Savior. My prayer is that the conservative resurgence will now grow into a Great Commission resurgence.
But our witness is compromised when a spiritually lost world sees us fighting with one another, when they see unloving words hurled without restraint, when they see terse comments cloaked in civility – when they see little evidence of Christian love.
Would you pray with me that the world will see us as men and women who love the Lord with all of our hearts, and who love one another? Will you be a part of the conversation that shifts from negativity to Great Commission obedience?
It would really help in building bridges, if we better understood our past – especially that period from 1700-1850. Take, for example, the issue of sovereign grace or the tulip outline every one who does not believe it seems scared to death of it, They can say, “Just look at the Hardshell Baptists.” Those who do believe it, often seem heavy handed in their application of it – as if the only way to get the message across is with a sledge hammer. My studies in the period under consideration suggest that the whole issue is far more subtle than… Read more »
Dr. James Willingham,
Very well spoken… are you perhaps working on a book on this topic? If so I would love to read it!
Grace Always,
Greg Alfords last blog post..johnMark on Christless Christianity
To Greg: Well, not exactly. I have the materials for a number of works (e.g., “The Intellectualism of the Bible,” “I Cors.13,” a church history, etc., but being somewhat computer challenged (my children say), I have made little progress. Also not many publishers are interested in subjects that are not popular. Amazing, is it not, how conservative subjects in some areas have become so popular today, that secular firms buy out old conservative evangelical publishers? And yet they still do not want to work with people on the cutting edge. Might be costly. Truth usually is.