Monthly Archives: March 2019

Social Justice / Social Gospel 2 Comments

On Sam Allberry and ‘Living Out’

When the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel was published back in September of 2018, some Christians wondered why its framers felt the need to include affirmations and denials concerning the subject of “Sexuality and Marriage” (article 10). In light of Matthew Vines’ publication of God and the Gay Christian, Gregory Coles’ Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity, and Sam Allberry’s Is God Anti-Gay? (and the subsequent rise to prominence of Allberry’s Living Out ministry), by now it should be abundantly clear why this component of the social justice narrative had to be squarely addressed. Continue reading…

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The problem isn’t the Great Commission, by Tom Ascol

The following article is by Tom Ascol and reposted from Founders Ministries (access the original here).

Anthony Bradley has been a loud voice in the social justice movement among reformed and evangelical Christians in America. He actually helped awaken me to the threat of this movement to the gospel. It was his comment on Twitter on December 22, 2017 that started bringing into focus what I had only been seeing through a haze over the previous year or so. In response to Jonathan Leeman’s article suggesting that evangelicals don’t need a better gospel, Bradley wrote,

Here’s the problem(and this will be hard) [sic]: from a black church perspective, evangelicals have never had the gospel. Ever. Read the book “Doctrine A Race” [sic]. Here then is the actual Q: When will evangelicals embrace the gospel for the first time ever? #BlackChurch

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How Romanism ruined America, by John Robbins

On the No Peace with Rome home page, I stated that

“The encroachments of Romanism are plainly evident in the doctrinal downgrade, charismatic chicanery, and ecumenical evisceration of Truth so prevalent in contemporary evangelicalism. But the retreat to Rome is not confined to areas of soteriology. Some may even hold to the biblical gospel and yet be thoroughly romish in their political and economic theory, Thomistic in their epistemology, compromising in their protology, and/or Jesuitical in their eschatology.”

Indeed, almost all erroneous roads lead to Rome and her foundation built upon sand. Rome’s pernicious influence must not be overlooked when scrutinizing the rise of socialism among American politicians and Christian leaders. Continue reading…