A La Carte (4/23)

  • Tim Challies
  • 04/23/10
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Young, Restless, Reformed? - Collin Hansen, has written an article for CT that he titled Piper, Warren and the Perils of Movement Building. Michael Horton has written a response, of sorts, in which he calls us to understand the word Reformed within its historical context and proposes an alternative.

Can You Name Them? - Randy Alcorn on heroes and celebrities: “Being a hero is something entirely different than being a celebrity. Fame is one thing. Virtue is another. The two aren’t even remotely related. In fact, the more famous you become the harder it is to cultivate and retain virtue. Celebrities are just people with good looks, talent, money, and the ability to draw attention to themselves. Heroes are people who stand courageously for what is right, often against the tide of public opinion, and at great cost to themselves.”

Struggling with Time-Debt - This article is worth a read. “I recently found myself, late one night, staring at my computer screen with a sinking, hard feeling in my stomach and a bad taste in my mouth. A familiar bad taste. The taste of debt. But I wasn’t looking at my bank statement—I was looking at my calendar.”

This Was Grace:

(HT:JT)

All I Have Is Christ:

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a comment from Venkatesh • 04/23 @ 9:20am
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Brother Tim,.

What do you think about Michael Horton’s claim that “Reformed” label should be narrowly applied. Do you agree with him?

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a comment from Tom Hardy • 04/25 @ 10:30pm

I am not Tim, but I thought I would give my opinion anyway.I consider myself to be Reformed Baptist, because like my Paedo-Baptist friends I believe in CT. I realize that many Paedo-Baptist would not call a Credo-Baptist either Reformed, or CT, but I do.As I read the writing of John Owen, although I don’t come to his final conclusion concerning Paedo-Baptism, never the less for the most part I am in agreement with him.A.W Pink who was a Baptist wrote on the same subject concerning CT writing, mirrored in many respects John Owens, yet like me his final conclusion was Credo-Baptism.

The reason I bring this subject up is not to debate the issue of Paedo vs. Credo, but because I really don’t think calling myself a “Reformed Baptist” is wrong.However, unlike some of my Baptist brothers and sisters, I would never make this particular issue one that requires me not to allow into membership into a local Baptist Church someone who is a Paedo-Baptist. With one exception, a Paedo-Baptist who isn’t willing to respect the Baptist distinctives concerning baptism; where it is clear that allowing into membership will create division.I believe that Reformed Baptists have more in common with other Reformed Christian denominations than we do with Arminian Baptists.