Missio Dei Suburbia has some great questions concerning John MacArthur’s stance on contextualization. Go read the whole thing, its tough to just quote a section of it.
A response to MacArthur’s silliness.
Update:
The BHT boys keep knocking it out of the park.
It also seems to me that the best example of de-contextualised, one-size-fits-all Christianity was Roman Catholicism between Trent and Vatican II. One Latin Mass to rule them all, and all that.
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Wow! And you thought his opening session last year was bad…
Frankly, I read that bilge by JM, and I don’t understand why anyone would listen to the man. The crap about the “church of the tares” almost makes me sick. J-Mac can have his “wheat”. I’ll stay out here with my “tares”…
Where either of you actually there?
The point was very simple. I was there. I heard it. Simply stated: you don’t have to curse like a sailor just because the majority of your hearers do.
Keith,
If any of what was reported was misreported, please feel free to correct it. However, there seems to be agreement from people who agree with McArthur who were liveblogging it.
I don’t seem to be able to post here. Something about a “15 second rule…”
One more try and I’m going to bed:
They heard what they wanted to hear. You guys couldn’t be more thrilled to find something else to complain about this year.
The point I HEARD–with my own ears–was that we don’t have to make the Gospel relevant. It IS relevant!…unless you don’t believe Heb 4:12.
If someone other than Mac had said the same things (especially someone from your camp), you guys couldn’t have praised them quick enough.
Keith, as someone who likes some of JM’s stuff and with no axe to grind I find these conferences, most of them from many different theological vantage points, as “energizing the base” gatherings.
Would not the “Shepherd’s†adjective seem to indicate that it would center around the needs of the sheep? I find the redundant choir preaching to serve no purpose but to scratch the same doctrinal itch again. Where there any slides of the African AIDS epidemic? Where there calls for fasting and prayer for the gay community? Where there exhortations for humility on an unusual level? Where there public inventories/confessions about tearless ministries?
I believe if Jesus, the Great Shepherd, had a conference for under shepherds He would both call for a deeper followship in His pastors and expose the fields to these same men and see if their hearts were broken. If not, and if all they had was exegetical minutia ad infinitum, then let them find employment elsewhere.
The world lies in the Wicked One, suffering physically and spiritually, and we continue to butress things we already believe instead of calling for colossal sacrifice from among those who claim to be protectors of the Holy Grail.
Every gathering of under shepherds should be a call to repentance and prayer rather than nailing down something that most in attendance already know and believe. These conferences should generate many more “Oh me’s” than “Amens”.