Some people still don’t agree that we should use the law in evangelism and that it is a theologically unreasonable argument to suggest that it is. Well, here is a short list of a few selected theologians who beg the differ… Also, click on their names and it will send you to their wiki pages so you can see if they are credible or not. These guys werent bums, check it out. We start with the earliest theologians and go through to current theologians... Enjoy!
John Wycliffe “The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God.”
Martin Luther
“The proper effect of the Law is to lead us out of our tents and tabernacles, that is to say, from the quietness and security wherein we dwell, and from trusting in ourselves, and to bring us before the presence of God, to reveal His wrath to us, and to set us before our sins.”
“The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's moral law and to show the nature of sin.”
“I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived' (Romans 7:9). So it is with the work-righteous and the proud unbelievers. Because they do not know the Law of God, which is directed against them, it is impossible for them to know their sin. Therefore also they are not amenable to instruction. If they would know the Law, they would also know their sin; and sin to which they are now dead would become alive in them.”
Matthew Henry
“Of this excellent use is the law: it converts the soul, opens the eyes, prepares the way of the Lord in the desert, rends the rocks, levels the mountains, makes a people prepared for the Lord.”
John MacArthur
“Grace means nothing to a person who does not know he is sinful and that such sinfulness means he is separated from God and damned. It is therefore pointless to preach grace until the impossible demands of the Law and the reality of guilt before God are preached.”
John R. W. Stott
“We cannot come to Christ to be justified until we have first been to Moses to be condemned. But once we have gone to Moses and acknowledged our sin, guilt and condemnation, we must not stay there.”
Tomorrow, more law preaching evangelists! Heres a clue who they might be... They are a father son evangelistic team. Stay tuned for more...
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Theologian Thursday
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Luther and many like him thought Romans 7 was directed at the Christian rather than the Jew. We have all learned since that the chapter is aimed at the jew not the Christian. Do some sound exegesis with some up to date help. Get back to the gospel that Paul preached rather than your own perception of what the gospel is. We are save by the gospel and hearing what God has achieved for us in Christ not hearing about a small part (moral law)of the law. Adam by the way was not condemned by the law - it had not been given. Johno
James, it seems that on this subject you have forgotten that there are such things as texts and no matter how much we deconstruct them, they bounce back with renewed challenge. Paul's writtings have a stronge record when it comes to this. Also there are fresh and compelling readings of texts; new pairs of eyes, no doubt with new motives but none the worse for that, scan familiar words and hear unfamiliar messages, and then, test them out, not merely on those who share the readers cultural and religious predispositions but on those who do not. The public nature of scholarship is part of the surge towards insight, despite the danger of collusion, of ghetto masquarading as the world. Paladin
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