I can’t find a way to imbed this, but it’s a very short graphic video on what’s missing in today’s Protestantism.
Courtesy of Rev. Paul T. McCain at Cyberbrethren.
I can’t find a way to imbed this, but it’s a very short graphic video on what’s missing in today’s Protestantism.
Courtesy of Rev. Paul T. McCain at Cyberbrethren.
Do you think that is a wide-spread problem? I wonder if more Christians don’t fail on both sides of the question. They don’t proclaim the gospel in word or deed.
Well, I think it’s primarily aimed at the English church. But it applies equally to mainliners in America.
Wow!! Am I impressed or what??!! I believe this little bit applies to most churches these days… mainliners and the tid-bits…
Social pastoring in churches these days seems to be going off the scales. What has become of good old-fashioned meat and potatoes preaching?
Reminds me of Luther’s Treatise on Good Works. He was dealing with a church that defined good works in terms of service instead of faith. Rather, he insisted that faith in Jesus Christ as savior must be the foundation stone of all good works. No work can be called good unless it comes from faith. Moreover he looked to the Bible to define good works, beginning with the Ten Commandments.
In the American church the danger is towards what Bonhoeffer called cheap grace, or antinomianism. Forgiveness without repentance, salvation without holiness, God winking at sins instead of judging them, baptism as water of life rather than the water of death we die in, and rise to new life from, and a forgetfulness of the need for “daily contrition, faith and obedience” as Luther wrote in the Small Catechism.