Join C. Michael Patton, Sam Storm, and Tim Kimberley as they continue to discuss the issue of theological arrogance.
MESSAGE SUMMARY: Often it is the case that the more you understand and know, the more you fall on your face before God. Well, this is ideal. However, knowledge “puffs up.” Sometimes we just become more arrogant. Sometimes our zeal shapes our personality to a point where we are the last people that others want to be around, much less be like. Theology is a wonderful thing. Belief is a wonderful thing. Conviction is a wonderful thing. But when our beliefs cause us to well up with pride, our witness can be counterproductive to the Gospel.
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1 Response to "Theology Unplugged: I’m Not Judgmental, I’m Discerning:Part 3 (with Sam Storms)"
Another good one!
I find it helpful to distinguish between a view and its implication, because often a disagreement with one is a disagreement of the other.
If I believe that dispensationalism by implication undermines inerrancy, Im not going to accuse ‘dispensationalist’ with undermining inerrancy because most dispensationalist I know are strongly committed to inerrancy.
Likewise, somebody less careful might say something that has logical implications that are heretical, that doesn’t mean that they actually are heretical. Why? Because they are inconsistent. Think of Peters actions that had to be corrected by Paul because they by implication denied the gospel, that did not show he wasn’t a christian but that he was inconsistent.
Only God is totally consistent, the rest of us have some inconsistencies together with the great truth he has given us.