Elders Are Not Rulers
The pastorate/eldership is a non-legislative office. It cannot make laws; only declare Christ’s law which is revealed in his word. Elders do not possess decision-making authority over other people and how they are used by the Holy Spirit in their spiritual gifts they receive from Him. Because Elders have no decision-making authority, they must influence others by teaching the word and by being a godly example to them. The church today is in desperate need of this kind of leader. We need godly examples, not people who are good at barking orders. We need those who can influence and persuade with God’s word, not dictate into existence their own vision. Getting this right is crucial for the health and mission of every local church.
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Dangerous Instruments to Play With
The reason I said that some loyalists would do the president’s dirty work is because they have said so. A recent article by U.S. News relates such stories. Take for example, one representative Trump supporter, a chiropractor from Texas, a professing Baptist, who recently joined a militia willing to fight for Trump. The dude told reporters, “If President Trump comes out and says: ‘Guys, I have irrefutable proof of fraud, the courts won’t listen, and I’m now calling on Americans to take up arms,’ we would go.”
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TO WHAT SHALL WE COMPARE THESE TIMES?
There is an aphorism that says “Nature abhors a vacuum.” The unpalatable truth is that the vacuum left by the Christian Church’s abandonment of her calling to be salt and light to the nations is being filled increasingly by the values of a worldview that is in many respects similar to that of pagan Rome, and it is this worldview that is shaping our modern world.
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CHRISTIAN RENAISSANCE: WHY THERE NEVER WAS A REFORMATION
Misuse of words and terms can be a great snare. The Reformers did not reform any Church. If they had done so there would exist today a Reformed Roman Catholic Church. No such Church exists. Rather they left the Roman Church, or were thrown out of it, and they then started again.
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The Most Important Election Ever?
Is 2020 really the most important election ever? Knowing some history should be helpful.
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The Covenantal Case Against Trump
Morally, we should be aware of God's qualifications regarding civil leadership. Though Joe Biden does not meet these qualifications, this does not give believers moral license to lesson God's standards to accommodate another unqualified man. We must ask what our standard is and stand firm on that answer.
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Manly Men, Statistics, and Ideological Bias
This is an excellent example of how ideological bias can severely twist data and abuse data. How Foster and IGTBAM attempted to use this data is both foolish and dishonest.
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The Extent of Christ's Mediatorial Dominion
As we approach the 2020 election, many of us who have a strong desire to see Christ’s kingdom flourish and grow have become distraught and discouraged by the political hysteria that runs rampant in our country. So, I thought this would be a good opportunity to celebrate the basic but profound truth that King Jesus is still in charge. Last year I wrote an article entitled The Extent of Christ’s Mediatorial Dominion for troubling seasons such as the one we are in today. I pray this encourages you to keep up the good fight in the midst of increasing opposition to Christ’s Kingdom.
The Lamb will still reign in 2021!
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53 April Thoughts on COVID-19
I just went back and read what I wrote four months ago concerning COVID-19. When I decided to go back and read my 53 thoughts, I expected to be proven wrong on a few points. After all, so much has changed. We have gone through various popular conspiracy theories, the official story has shifted more than once, and there seems to be a new COVID related controversy every week. Instead…
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Indifference & Racism: Why just being "not racist" isn't enough
Christians, indifference is cancer. Indifference never stays neutral because there is no such thing as ethical neutrality. Indifference against injustice is not neutrality, but just another form of injustice.
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Church Planting - Totally Cockeyed!
Jesus never told us to plant churches. He said he will build his church. He told us to seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness (i.e. justice, not piety) and the Great Commission he gave us is a command to disciple nations, not plant churches. Churches are a consequence of the Great Commission not its goal.
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"Spiritual Bypassing" on Racial Reconciliation
Too many Christians retreat into the spiritual bypass of “just preach Christ” or “you missed the Gospel” or “don’t feed the perpetual grievance machine!” We need a robust law AND works approach that addresses racial reconciliation.
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Control Freak Christianity | A most important podcast
You really should listen to the Control Freak Christianity podcast.
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COVID-19 and Humility
Christians should speak on this issue, but we should do so humbly. We could do without the Covid-19 prophets on either side trumpeting their version of certain revelation.
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Factions in Theonomy: the Romanticized 1950s Fallacy
If biblical law in society and culture is going to be our claimed mission, then reimagining and reinventing a 1950s paradise is a hypocritical, ignorant, hurtful, and losing venture. But our movement’s history shows we are tangled up with the worst of that era while praising its facade.
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Ignore Anyone Who Says Marxism Is a Threat | Gary North
Until you understand this fundamental principle, you will be easily beguiled by people who go around chanting a mantra: "Marxism, Marxism, Marxism." The mantra is nonsense if it is applied to modern Western society, the continent of Africa, India, and especially China.
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Factions in Theonomy: *Ceremonial* Death Penalties?
Too many theonomic models end up designing a backward-looking, tyrannical state. Trying to reinvent 1950, or 1850, or 1650, they create a broad civil power which would result in a fascistic tyranny. Such reconstructions are not biblical, but traditional. They should be abandoned for a fully biblical, forward-looking, biblically-progressive view of God’s law, as the New Testament would apply it, for today’s times.
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An Abiding Definition for Theonomy: "Solus Bahnsenus" just won't do. . . .
Greg Bahnsen’s work on Theonomy was both foundational and fatally deficient in a crucial area. I share this bit to highlight the need for why I wrote Bounds of Love and then A Consuming Fire. I still think we need to take this deficiency more seriously, so I highlight it again here. But I also think more work yet needs to be done to clarify more matters about God’s Law in the New Testament era and the modern world.
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