Albert Mohler reports on how Dr. Katherine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, has finally found a teaching in the church so awful, so scandalous and offensive, that she’s willing to apply the term “heresy” to it.
Denial of the Trinity? Denial of the Virgin Birth? Denial of the Resurrection?
No, no. It’s much worse than that.
She’s found that some people actually believe that Jesus is Lord.
The overarching connection in all of these crises has to do with the great Western heresy – that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God. It’s caricatured in some quarters by insisting that salvation depends on reciting a specific verbal formula about Jesus. That individualist focus is a form of idolatry, for it puts me and my words in the place that only God can occupy, at the center of existence, as the ground of being. That heresy is one reason for the theme of this Convention.
She goes on to describe a further, related heresy–believing that Jesus is the one way to God.
Tip: Dr. Paul McCain at Cyberbrethren.
What in the . . .
Reminds me of Captain Renault in Casablanca, “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!”