A La Carte (2/14)

  • Tim Challies
  • 02/14/08
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Thursday February 14, 2008 D.A. Carson on Rob Bell
Since Rob Bell is being discussed in the blogosphere...here's an audio clip from D.A. Carson at last weekend's conference in Nashville. He has some very insightful things to say about Bell.
The Reason for God by Tim Keller
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a comment from Jerry • 02/14 @ 12:06pm
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WTS has Keller available right now, but not Mohler's "Culture Shift".

Monergism has Mohler available now, but not Keller.

(banghead)

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a comment from Woz • 02/14 @ 1:30pm

Tim, do you think you can post when the audio for the conference is available, i'd love to hear the rest of Carson's message...plus, it'd be interesting to hear you as well. Thanks!

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a comment from Jeri • 02/14 @ 9:11pm
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What D.A.Carson says about the reformed church beginning to "assume" reminds me of an article I read at Beginning with Moses awhile back..."Assumed Evangelicalism: Some reflections en route to denying the gospel"

http://www.beginningwithmoses.org/bigger/assumedevangelicalism.htm

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a comment from Andrew • 02/15 @ 9:26am

Not only did I grow up in Grand Rapids, but my house is less than a mile from Mars Hill, and I can testify that Carson's comments are spot-on.

Among and amidst Reformed churches in the area, there is a stagnancy that is partly real, partly perceived. Many, many young Christians (and nearly everyone's a professing Christian) have been catechized fairly well, but fewer have developed either a love for the truth they have learned or a close relationship with God. Their Christianity is inherited.

Thus, when someone like Bell comes and "repaints" Christianity in a youthful and exciting (and slightly liberal, which is a fine way of expressing mild rebellion to one's parents) fashion, he can attract 10,000 every Sunday.

This speaks to a need in Reformed churches: we must never divorce truth about God from a relationship with God, and always convey it with passion, lest we repel youth down the road.