I’m passing on another of Mike Ratliff’s post, perhaps someone, somewhere will read it and agree.
Maybe not.
”What sort of deception have the leaders of the Compromised Church fallen under? What has caused them to be given over to self-righteousness and spiritual blindness? Well, as we have seen, God does this when people worship false god’s. The Compromised Church’s god is one of their own making. It isn’t the living God. Their god is not sovereign. He is love and grace and mercy, but not just. The worship of this false god requires a huge compromise. This compromise is the sacrifice of God-centered worship, preaching, Bible study and the following of sound Biblical Doctrine such as the Doctrines of Grace. In their place these religious leaders preach a man-centered gospel that contains no mention of the Holiness of God, the Righteousness of God or His Justice. There is no mention of the sin of man and his utter helplessness in turning to God for salvation. Instead, the gospel that is preached is a feel-good pep-talk that makes becoming a Christian no more stressful than buying a Coke at the convenience store.”
The Pastor at the small Reformed Church I’ve been doing my Sabbatical at has been teaching through The Doctrines of Grace. Taking a chapter a week one can read through this book in a year:
The “Doctrines of Grace” refer to Reformed theology or Calvinism, taught in depth by the 19th-century American Presbyterian minister William Swan Plumer (1802–1880) in his notable works such as The Grace of Christ, or Sinners Saved by Unmerited Kindness. There are many free copies available such as these:
The Grace of Christ, or
Sinners Saved by Unmerited Kindness (1853)
Plumer’s style is to season his commentary extensively with Scripture, and quotes from both the many Protestant doctrine summaries, i.e. the Confessions and Catechisms, as well as early well known Historical Reformers.
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