Sunday, 26 November 2006
Jesus is Lord
Harking back to a couple of weeks ago, the final talk of the UCCF Graduate Network Conference was by Richard Cunningham, replacing John Stott who'd had an accident a while ago and is resting. He spoke very well on Romans 12.1-4 and other passages relating to Christ's lordship in our lives - and Sean has posted notes.
4 comments:
Apologies for the delay etrangere!(dont actaully know what that means) Have posted thoughts on Law and use, if your still ruminating on it...
Hm, interesting. étrangère means stranger (female) or foreigner - as I was a stranger in a foreign land in Belgium, partly still am in England, and certainly am in a gospel sense until Christ comes again and reconciles all things to himself. Yet to God we are no longer strangers :)
Cool. Like the law seemingly simple, yet full of concealed depth!
Haha, you really are trying to draw me back into the law discussion, aren't you? I'm not up for it much since I need to study it more!
As for you accusing some of the CBCBers of disy-ism, I think some are New Covenant like Carson, but what are titles worth except for name calling unless we each understand them in a similar way the light of Scripture? That's what I appreciate about our conversation - we're not debating the various brand name views on law & gospel but seeking to converse with Bibles open.
On the topic of brand name theology, I'm reading Vern Poythress' Understanding Dispensationalism at the moment, since as much as I read dispy blogs I couldn't understand how an evangelical could have such a hermeneutic, which indicated to me that I clearly didn't understand it well enough. The book's very helpful so far.
On law I will say though, we often veer towards a rather simplistic understanding of law as rule-keeping rather than placing it in its context of pre-existant gracious covenant. (Ex.2.4, Ex.3.15-16, Ex.4.5, etc, Deut 7.7-11) It may even stir me to post something, you never know...
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