Addressing Our Culture w/Reformed Christianity

From http://www.oldtruth.com

In this audio clip RC Sproul says: At the heart of Reformed Theology, at the heart of Luther and Calvin's struggle, and in Knox and Jonathan Edwards, were men who were awakened to the greatness, to the majesty, to the holiness, and the sovereignty of God. By contemplating the holiness and sovereignty of God, they were driven to develop their doctrines of the grace of God. Because until you meet a God who is holy and is sovereign, you don't know what grace means. I don't think we are ever going to see a healthy evangelical church until the evangelical church is solidly Reformed, where it takes biblical Christianity seriously with a right concept of a sovereign God.

That's because unreformed Christianity has failed in our culture. It has been pervasively antinomian (no law, no Lordship), and has been pervasively liberal in it's trends and tendencies away from scripture, because there's been no real basis in the sovereignty of God.

Today's evangelicals are never amazed by grace, because they don't understand sovereignty, they don't understand God. The evangelical church today is sick, more sick than it has ever been. We need a style and a variety of Christianity that is not a religion, but is a life and a worldview, where at the heart and foundational structure of it is a sound and deep biblical concept of the character of God.

That is RC Sproul's Christianity, that is my Christianity, and that is - as I like to say on this blog - the old truth. That's also why OldTruth.com endeavors to be more than just a news service or a watch-blog. One of the aims here is to focus on the underlying flawed theology that has caused so many methodology problems today, and press on to right biblical thinking which should influence our whole approach to church and evangelism.

Listen-in now to this short 7 minute audio excerpt from Sproul's
teaching entitled "Who is Truth?". It's part of his series called
a Blueprint for Thinking.

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