I recently tweeted,
…still as relevant as ever, if not more and more by the day.
Seriously, all Christians should read this short, profoundly insightful book
— Kirk E. Miller (@KirkMiller_) August 9, 2015
Rajkumar Luke responded,
@KirkMiller_ free public domain copy available at https://t.co/NZltrDbAwI
— Rajkumar Luke (@rajkumarluke) August 10, 2015
What a great find! So I thought I’d share.
The ERLC has shared several videos in which Pastor Sam Allberry tackles difficult and important questions regarding the church and homosexuality.
You can see the full collection videos at ERLC’s website.
Below are a few samples.
“Perhaps the best thing that can come out of the gay marriage decision is for the church to make a final break between our faith and our nation.”
Russell Moore just wrote a piece on the declining number of those in America identifying themselves as Christian.
He responds, “Good!” These tweets sum things up quite well:
.@tonywoodlief Another headline for Pew data: “Large Group of Nonbelievers Gain Self-awareness.”
— Nathan Duffy (@TheIllegit) May 12, 2015
Here are some key statements from his piece:
The number of Americans who identify as Christians has reached an all-time low, and is falling. I think this is perhaps bad news for America, but it is good news for the church.
Christianity isn’t normal anymore, and that’s good news. Only a strange gospel can differentiate itself from the worlds we construct.
The gospel comes to sinners, not to the righteous. It is easier to speak a gospel to the lost than it is to speak a gospel to the kind-of-saved.
We don’t have Mayberry anymore, if we ever did. Good. Mayberry leads to hell just as surely as Gomorrah does.
The future of Christianity is bright. I don’t know that from surveys and polls, but from a word Someone spoke one day back at Caesarea Philippi.
I recommend reading the full article here. It’s very perceptive.
SBTS has made Al Mohler’s response to Matthew Vine’s book, God and the Gay Christian: A Response to Matthew Vines, available for free. Get it here.
Christians and homosexuality is a hotly debated topic in today’s evangelical world, and Southern Seminary continues that conversation in this publication. Matthew Vines’s new book, God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships, argues that homosexual orientation and committed same-sex relationships are consistent with a “high view” of the Bible and evangelical Christianity. Southern Seminary president R. Albert Mohler Jr. and four other seminary faculty members refute this claim in the new SBTS Press e-book, God and the Gay Christian? A Response to Matthew Vines.
Each chapter refutes Vines’s claims from six specific Scriptural references to homosexuality. Mohler’s chapter provides an overview critique of Vines’s book. James M. Hamilton Jr., professor of biblical theology, addresses the Old Testament claims; Denny Burk, professor of biblical studies, addresses New Testament claims; Owen Strachan, assistant professor of Christian theology looks at the church history assertions; and Heath Lambert, assistant professor of biblical counseling, answers whether there is such a thing as a “gay Christian.”
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