Non-grace or Grace
How do we grace those whose rejection of certain teachings of God's Word has done such harm to our denomination?
Is it grace to endorse what the Bible doesn't? Is it grace to tell someone caught up in sin that the sin is O.K. before God? Is it grace to pretend that those who reject the clear teaching of scripture are still Baptists in more than name only? Is it grace to put friendship ahead of biblical principle? Is it grace to accept as orthodox a so-called theology that flies in the face of 2,000 years of biblical understanding?
All these questions have the same answer, "No." That would be non-grace.
How then do we grace those rejecting biblical morality who claim they are in the center of the tradition of traditional Baptists?
God's way of grace is the Romans 5:8 way, "...while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Grace is not looking at the sinner through rose colored glasses and pronouncing that his sin is not really sin. Grace is doing him the kindness of treating him with love, while recognizing the sin and calling him to make a new start.
Haven't our ABCUSA denominational leaders done disservice to the denomination by refusing to take an all out stand in favor of scripture's teaching, and haven't they also done disservice to the Welcoming & Affirming churches and individuals by giving them the false hope that God approves of their sin. It is time for our leaders to make a new start in advocating biblical morality, and if they do not it is time for Bible believing churches to take serious action to make their scriptural stance known even if it means breaking fellowship with a prodigal, runaway ABCUSA.
Is it grace to endorse what the Bible doesn't? Is it grace to tell someone caught up in sin that the sin is O.K. before God? Is it grace to pretend that those who reject the clear teaching of scripture are still Baptists in more than name only? Is it grace to put friendship ahead of biblical principle? Is it grace to accept as orthodox a so-called theology that flies in the face of 2,000 years of biblical understanding?
All these questions have the same answer, "No." That would be non-grace.
How then do we grace those rejecting biblical morality who claim they are in the center of the tradition of traditional Baptists?
God's way of grace is the Romans 5:8 way, "...while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Grace is not looking at the sinner through rose colored glasses and pronouncing that his sin is not really sin. Grace is doing him the kindness of treating him with love, while recognizing the sin and calling him to make a new start.
Haven't our ABCUSA denominational leaders done disservice to the denomination by refusing to take an all out stand in favor of scripture's teaching, and haven't they also done disservice to the Welcoming & Affirming churches and individuals by giving them the false hope that God approves of their sin. It is time for our leaders to make a new start in advocating biblical morality, and if they do not it is time for Bible believing churches to take serious action to make their scriptural stance known even if it means breaking fellowship with a prodigal, runaway ABCUSA.
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