On the blog he shares with Mark Dever, C.J. Mahaney, and Albert Mohler, Ligon Duncan posted a few comments from J.I. Packer on "the recovery of the gospel" that I thought were a worthwhile read...
"... Without realizing it, we have during the past century bartered that (the old) gospel for a substitute product which, though it looks similarly enough in points of detail, is as a whole a decidedly different thing... It fails to make men God-centered in their thoughts and God-fearing in their hearts because this is not primarily what it is trying to do. One way of stating the difference between it and the old gospel is to say that it is too exclusively concerned to be “helpful” to man— to bring peace, comfort, happiness, satisfaction— and too little concerned to glorify God..."
Check out the full post below...
http://blog.togetherforthegospel.org/2006/02/packer_on_the_r.html
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Uh oh....hold me back....;)
This may sound crazy, but what if we are on the brink of a "second reformation" in regards to the purity of the Gospel being restored in the Church?
It seems like the Lord is starting to raise up people and ministries who are on fire to see this happen...
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