Which Are Positive Traits . . .
Not Yet Clear
“Whenever you are dealing with a new movement, identification of what that movement is all about is a lot trickier than, say, analyzing some fossilized denomination. With the latter, all you have to do is read the little inscription next to the glass case, and you know exactly what they stand for. But when something new is happening, it can take a bit of time for the whole thing to ‘set up.’”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, pp. 802-803
Devil in a Blue Dress
From the Credenda Archives (1995)Volume 7/Number 3 Serious Christians have always had an uneasy relationship with popular entertainment, and the difficulty is certainly understandable. Presented with the problem of recreation and entertainment, we usually find Christians divided into two clusters. Some are entirely too comfortable with whatever the world dishes up in the name of …
Bricks and Capstone
“There is a vast hierarchy of instruments below that—many bricks come below the capstone. But there is only one capstone. But none of those lesser bricks, lesser instruments, result in salvation necessarily. True evangelical faith does.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 800
Letters That Arrived Later Than Previous Ones
Letter to the Editor: In your July 2 letters, you mentioned VidAngel as a possible solution for consuming video content that would otherwise be unwholesome. I've struggled a bit with the ...
Sole Instrument
“Faith is the sole instrument by which a person may receive the blessing of Christ’s righteousness imputed to him. Now when we say ‘sole instrument’ we do not mean that no other instruments are involved, but that no other instruments are involved in the way that faith is . . . the only instrumental cause of justification that leaves no remainder is faith.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, pp. 799-800
Victory Lane
The small boy stopped and chunked some dirt clods at the fence post. Ten throws, six hits. Better than yesterday. Dave turned homeward again, pack over his shoulder. Coming around a corner, he saw the house down at the end of the dirt lane, about half a mile away. The road sloped gradually down for …
A Teaser
“Those who hold that the covenant of works was not gracious must, of necessity, deny the imputation of the active obedience of Christ”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 795
Happened Before, Has It?
The Halfway Covenant
“What do you do? You have a baptized man and woman, professing faith in Jesus and in the truth of the Christian religion, who are living sober and decent lives, and w ho could join any Calvinist church in Europe. They want to have their child baptized. What do you do? The Halfway Covenant said okay, all right already.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 791