Comments on: Oprah the Pluralist

By: Timmy Brister

Timmy Brister — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:14:48 +0000

Ah, I see. I thought those comments were uncharacteristic of you, so I appreciate the clarification. Yeah, I received similar sentiments as well. What these people don’t realize is that they are doing theology whether they admit it or not. What matters is whether it is grounded in Scripture. “All we need to do is preach Jesus.” Okay, which Jesus? What did he teach? The Jesus of Nestorius? Arius? Apollinarius? The Jesus of Joel Osteen? Oprah Winfrey? Dan Brown?

The argumentation is really unfortunate, and more importantly, it is eternally perilous. But we must press on in declaring the whole counsel of God’s Word. Those will no appetite for the truth of God do not have the Spirit of God within them to appraise it (1 Cor. 2).

By: Lucas Defalco

Lucas Defalco — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:51:29 +0000

I wish I was, Timmy. Sadly, these are all things I have been told in church, by fellow church members or staff members (except for the last line which is my own). And we wonder why evangelicals who can no longer defend their faith are resorting in mass to conservative politics as a way of achieving some sort of tanglible “victory” in this world!

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Found At Provocations and Pantings « A Rose by Any Other Name — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:33:25 +0000

[...] 12, 2008 by thomastwitchell That’s interesting. Saw it before. And I have heard the argument before. It was set forth by Billy Graham in fact on [...]

By: Timmy Brister

Timmy Brister — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:49:09 +0000

Lucas,

You’re joking, right? (I just want to make sure.)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:36:05 +0000

How ironic (or predictable) that she enters into a dialogue about God and multiple ways to God but when a person mentions Jesus and the Gospel, she can’t get into a “religous” dialogue with that person!

By: Lucas Defalco

Lucas Defalco — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:08:31 +0000

Don’t preach doctrine. Church members don’t want to hear about theology, they need to hear about how to raise good children, or how to have a better marriage, or how to better manage their finances. Don’t teach people apologetics because that’s divisive and we can’t afford any more division in our church. People just want to be loved on, not preached to.

Don’t put any books by Van Til, Bahnsen, Sproul or Schaeffer in our church library. Those books are too hard. Nobody will ever read them. Instead let’s give them the latest “The Case for” book so that they will be ready to defend Intelligent Design at their next school board meeting.

Look all we need to do is preach Jesus and stop talking about all these things nobody cares about like imputation, propitiation, justification, election, etc. All that just gives me a headache. That stuff may be appropriate for seminaries, but not for God’s people.

Check your brains and your Bibles at the churchhouse door.