Some preliminary conclusions on theological controversy:
* Some things are worth fighting for. Some things are important and worth discussing, but not worth splitting over. Some thing aren’t worth fighting about at all.
The preface to Charles Colson’s latest book, The Faith, begins with Jude 3: “[I] urge you to contend for the truth that was once for all entrusted to all the saints.” Colson
In Why We’re Not Emerging, Kevin DeYoung writes:
If the emerging church struggles to find a theological center, it struggles even more to define theological boundaries – not just what they are, but
I didn’t have many takers on my question, “What [doctrines] would you put in the essentials list?” So I’m going to go back to a talk by Tim Keller last year
As Justin Taylor has noted, there’s a lot of discussion going on right now about how to define the gospel.
Here is a summary:
* At T4G a couple of weeks ago, Mark