Why is the church so biblically illiterate?

Because we in the pulpits do not preach God’s Word, and we in the pews neither read nor study God’s Word. There is no great mystery. We have not because we ask not. And when we do ask, we ask awry. We can then ask why do we ask not, and why, when we do ask, do we ask awry (James 4:2). Here too there is no great mystery. We ask not because we don’t believe that God’s Word will feed us. When we do ask, we ask awry because we want the Bible to affirm us rather than instruct us.

God’s Word, it tells us, is a mirror that shows us what we are (James 1:23). What we find in the mirror is, to put it mildly, not pretty. We find countless blots and blemishes. We are discouraged, disheartened. We learn the lesson that we’re not good enough, but miss the lesson that He is. And so flee from the very Word that shows us the Word whose love for us is boundless and unchangeable.

We’ve all either said or heard or both “I don’t have time to read/study the Bible.” Plug this statement into an honesty machine and it translates, “Reading and studying the Bible is less important to me than all the other things I spend my time on.” “I have more pressing matters in my life.” This despite the wisdom of Jesus that we would remember if we invested our time in His Word, “Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Matt. 4:4).

Our lives are saturated with noise. Ear-tickling, eye candy noise. If we show up for church on Sunday morning we expect a message that will be short and sweet. It must not step on our toes. And above all else, it must be entertaining. Bible optional.

We know better. What we have studied, however, is the fine art of rationalization. We sooth our consciences with lies. “I know more about the Bible than some people.” “I have heart knowledge. I don’t need head knowledge.” “The Holy Spirit will tell me all I need to know.” “Studying the Bible makes people unloving and Pharisaical.” “My pastor studies God’s Word for me.” We’re more diligent to excuse our failure than we are to overcome it.

Here’s a brief quiz, if you dare. Call it a self-assessment. Five simple questions. Looking things up is cheating. This is just off the top of your head.

1. Can you name all 10 commandments? You may paraphrase, and need not be in order or word perfect.
2. Who was Shimei?
3. Where was the book of Revelation written?
4. Who lived first, Ruth or Esther?
5. On what day did Peter preach his first sermon?

These are not questions one would have to memorize in order the pass the quiz. They are bits of information that would be already ingrained in you if you read your Bible regularly. They are profoundly easy. Passing the test brings no boasting rights.

If you didn’t pass, and are feeling bad about it, here’s a suggestion. Start reading the Bible as if it were the very Word of the Maker of all the world, and the Redeemer of your soul. If you didn’t pass, and are not feeling bad about it, seek His grace and forgiveness.

This is the twenty-first installment of an ongoing series of pieces here on the nature and calling of the church. Stay tuned for more. Remember also that we at Sovereign Grace Fellowship meet this Sunday November 24 at 10:30 AM at our new location, at our beautiful farm at 112811 Garman Road, Spencerville, IN. Please come join us.

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The Year of Our Lord- Marking Time in His Kingdom

The world is half full of half-empty thinkers, and I am one of them. Puddleglum is my patron saint. And nothing exposes the vast expanse of emptiness in the top half of the glass like listening to the evening news. Every year we seem to have a parade of ground-breaking Supreme Court decisions, all about culturally public affirmations of the lordship of Christ.

More than fifty years ago the Supreme Court ruled that prayer to the Almighty would no longer be sanctioned in the state’s schools. To this day, however, we still don’t know if prayers are permitted prior to football games, or at graduations. We dicker over crosses on public lands, over the Ten Commandments in courthouses, and during this time of year, over whether there is any room in the inn for Christmas crèches.

We half-empty folks, perhaps rightly, bemoan that we not only often lose these cases, but the hard fact that we have them at all. Time was that while we did not have an established church in America as such, we all understood where we came from. There is no question that corporately speaking, we are growing more forgetful. We are, as a culture, eager to keep Christianity on the reservation, somewhere safe inside our hearts and minds where no one will notice. We are as militant in our secularism as al Qaeda is in their Islam.

Half-full people, on the other hand, are quick to point out that the federal government still finances the office of the congressional chaplain. No one seems to mind. Our coinage, though on the inside is still junk metals, nevertheless carries with it “In God We Trust.” We may be down in the late innings, but the game isn’t over yet.

All of these tokens, cultural symbols of what matters, matter. While what we seek is absolute submission from the heart of all men everywhere, we have slipped into a cultural gnosticism if we believe there is nothing to be gained by a symbolic acknowledgement of the lordship of Christ. Civil religion will save no one, but then, neither will civil agnosticism. But we have better news.

It is true enough that in certain academic circles we still have archaic cultural warriors who want us to begin using CE and BCE as a measurement of time, these abbreviations meaning “Common Era” and “Before the Common Era.” It is likewise true enough that while BC is clear enough (Before Christ) we have been dumbed down such that we can’t handle the simple Latin of Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord. But none of these cultural drifts can undo the fact that we, Christians and pagans alike, measure time, one of the most elemental of elements, by the birth of Jesus Christ.

In a little town of Bethlehem, backwater village in a backwater vassal state of the Roman empire, in a veritable stable, a baby was born. There was no ticker tape parade. There was no three-inch headline in the local paper. But that birth henceforth marked the very hinge of time. Everything that happened before this event would be marked as happening before this event. But better still, everything that happened after this event happened not just in time marked by our Lord, but in time belonging to our Lord. This is His year, as every year is.

This doesn’t mean, of course, that revival is just around the corner. It doesn’t mean that we are well on our way to victory in the culture wars. It means, however, that this little babe is now Lord over all things. It reveals that He will bring in each one that has been given to Him. It means He is about the business of bringing all His enemies into submission. That we live in 2024 AD reminds us, whether or not we hear that reminder, that our God reigns.

It is good and appropriate that we should mourn at the naked public square. It is a sure sign of a sad decline that those in positions of political power will not kiss the Son. We would do well to remember that even this is the fruit of the reality of His reign. The hearts of all kings are in His hand. This babe, born king of the Jews, is likewise king of these United States, of Canada, England, East Timor, Iraq, Red China. He does not stand outside the United Nations knocking, but is already Lord over all.

We would do well to watch our language. We who are His servants often, with well-intentioned zeal, determine to “grow” the kingdom of God, to “expand its borders.” But we, even empowered by the Holy Spirit, can do nothing of the kind. We cannot grow the kingdom, expand the borders where Christ reigns, for already He reigns everywhere.

All authority, in heaven and on earth, has been given to Him. Our calling isn’t to make His kingdom bigger. Our calling is to make His kingdom clearer, to make manifest, visible, tangible, the already existing but shrouded reality that Jesus Christ is now and ever more shall be Lord. It is a glorious calling, and these are glorious times, for this is the year of our Lord.

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Striking Out- How Lefty Women Want to Punish Their Men

Trump Derangement Syndrome certainly comes with some strange symptoms. There are, of course, any number of reasons to not like the president elect. I could give you a quite long list myself, though I’m sure anyone could compile a voluminous list of reasons not to like me. TDS, which has reached pandemic levels after the election, is a whole other matter.

We’ve witnessed hollow promises from celebrities to leave the country. We’ve seen the emotional meltdowns. We’ve seen pundits blame Kamala’s loss on Latinos being racist and married women being sexist. We’ve seen hair cutting rituals, uglifications if you will. We’ve seen unions calling for national strikes, and random threats of shooting white males.

Now we are seeing public pledges from female TDS sufferers to abstain from sexual conduct with men. They are, to punish Trump supporters, refusing to fornicate. They are taking TDS inspired vows of chastity. I, for one, wish them well. I think it’s a great idea for all women to stop fornicating. It’s such a great idea, I’m in favor of all men doing the same. In a spirit of cooperation and bipartisanship, may I encourage not just TDS sufferers, but Trump supporters to link arms in making such vows.

Often the vows are connected to the single greatest accomplishment of Trump’s first term, appointing Supremes who overturned Roe. “If we can’t slaughter the children you sire,” these gentleladies seem to be saying, “we won’t put ourselves in circumstances where we might conceive.” Kinda makes you wonder if there just might be not just correlation but causation in the radical spike in fornication rates since the original Roe decision. Maybe the legal freedom to murder increased the sense of freedom to fornicate.

When God blessed Adam and Eve with the marital act, He did not restrict it to the context of marriage between a man and a woman as some kind of loyalty test, or out of a sadistic desire to make us squirm. He did it to bless us, just as is the case with every word of His law. He doesn’t take from us but gives to us. He always knows better than we do.

It will be interesting to see, in the coming months, whether this particular symptom of TDS will diminish. Will it have the same staying power as the celebrexits that never seem to happen? If not, it will be interesting to see how many lives will actually improve. God blesses our obedience, even when it is motivated by spite. We stumble upon the blessing. The men who would be cut off would likewise find blessing. And maybe there will be marriages made and children born and blessed.

The God of heaven and earth makes straight lines out of crooked sticks. He overturns Roe via a man known to be less than gallant toward women, and who blamed pro-lifers for poor Republican showings in the mid-terms. He may use that same man to spread TDS and in turn to slow the raging waters of the ongoing sexual revolutions which have proven to be nothing but mass suicide. Stranger things have happened.

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8 Years with Lisa; Tariffolly; The MEANing of Jesus & More

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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The Oxymoronic Arrogance of Reformed Folk

It’s an irony that hits close to home, so it’s one I make note of regularly. We who confess to being Reformed, Calvinistic, embracing the doctrines of grace, begin our confession of our distinctives with the doctrine of total depravity. We affirm that sin impacts all that we are. Our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts and our desires are depraved. We affirm that we are unable, unless God should change our nature first, to even want to be changed.In short, we have a profoundly low, albeit biblical, view of ourselves in our fallen state. (For a strong exploration of Reformed theology, see After Darkness Light, Essays in Honor of RC Sproul here.)

The irony is that if we were in the high school yearbook we embracers of the doctrines of grace would rightly be voted “Most likely to be arrogant.” We begin with a humbling doctrine, but we end as prideful jerks. What gives? It is because of our depravity that even an awareness of our depravity does little to diminish our foolish pride. To put it another way, what else would we expect from sinners such as us?

We grow our arrogance, I suspect, out of one truth, and one lie. We embrace the biblical truth that God chooses His own. We deny that we are chosen based on His foreknowledge of any choices we might have made. What we often feel, however, is that we were chosen precisely because we were so worthy. We’ve turned out so well, we reason in the dark corners of our hearts, it makes perfect sense that He chose us. Didn’t He choose well when He chose me?

The truth that leads us astray is that we are, when considering election, entering into some deep waters. Which, we are foolish enough to believe, makes us think we are rather accomplished swimmers. We are tempted to believe that, because we not only look into such deep doctrines, but have the courage to embrace them, that we’re a better class of believer. I thank you Lord that I am not like other men. I know the five points of Calvinism. I know the difference between an Arminian and an Armenian.

The doctrine of election is true; it is biblical. As such we have a duty not just to affirm it and to teach it, but to believe it. We need to believe it from our hearts, to believe it enough to put to death our pride. We need to believe in it enough to believe in His power to rescue and revive the dead. We need to believe it enough to know down to our core that the vilest criminal, the cruelest Muslim, the most heartless adulterer is just what we are by nature. What sets us apart isn’t anything good in us save His grace at work in us.

We need to believe it enough to cry out in gratitude at the amazing grace that saved such a wretch as me. We should not believe in election because we in our brilliant minds have managed to peek behind the curtain, to look into the secret things of God. We are to believe in it because it reveals the glorious truth that He has loved us, despite our being utterly unworthy. He’s done so from the foundations of the world. His grace isn’t a slight fix to a small problem. It is instead the victory of Jesus over death. We are to believe it because it, however slowly, puts to death our pride. Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner.

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Live Study Tonight, I Thessalonians 4 – Pleasing God

Tonight we continue our study on I Thessalonians. All are welcome to our home at 7 est, or you may join us for dinner at 6:15. We will also stream the study at Facebook Live, RC-Lisa Sproul. We hope you’ll join us.

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One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, One Church

The Bible is organic. The Bible is true, and as such is consistent, coherent, and comprehensible. And the consistent, coherent, and comprehensible truth is, it’s not ordered as a systematics text, far less as a book of church order. It is a consistent, coherent, comprehensible, organic book.

There are few places where this is more obvious than in the doctrine of ecclesiology. How swiftly we find ourselves, as soon as we start talking about the church, talking about government. And we find ourselves immediately face to face with the organic. There is, much to our chagrin, no Book of Church Order in our Bibles. We carefully scan the table of contents, and lo, it’s just not there. Not only is there no apostle called Robert, there is no copy of his Rules.

What we have instead is mostly history, with the rest of our information coming from what we virtually dismiss as the “pastoral epistles.” The only government we see in the church is authoritative pronouncements from the apostles, and, in one more less than organic presentation, the Jerusalem Council. I mean, there’s not even any mention of a gavel. How legitimate can that be? What we are shown is something that doesn’t exactly fit our circumstance.

Because the book was written to a people living in the apostolic age, we are not given an extensive exposition on how the church should be ruled in the post-apostolic age. Which may explain why we have rational, Bible-loving men who are Episcopalian, who are Congregational, and who are Presbyterians, who believe in rule by bishop, by elder and by congregation. Here is one more place where honesty requires a recognition of the organic. While we affirm the perspicuity of the Bible, we must confess that some parts of it are more perspicuous than others.

But the problem is older than this. The lack of a Book of Church Order is emblematic of a broader problem. For not only are we not given a handbook for governance, we are not given a birth certificate for the church. Never does the Holy Spirit blow His celestial trumpet and declare, “The church is being born.” Some say the church was born at Pentecost. Others argue that the resurrection birthed the church. Still others suggest that it was the calling of the apostles, while others go all the way back to the calling of Abraham.

When was the church born? In Genesis 3. The church age began as soon as the age of innocence ended. The church, after all, is neither more nor less than the people of God. Where God has a people, there is the church.

In the patchwork that is the people of God, we find not merely a remnant, but a collection of remnants. Between the death of Noah and the calling of Abraham we are given a genealogy, followed by the tower of Babel, followed by more genealogy, followed by the call of Abraham. Nothing good happening there, in the interim between the heroes Noah and Abraham.

But no sooner does God call out a people for Himself, the Father of the Faithful, and his clan, that we meet Melchizadek, the priest of God Most High. Where did he come from? Perhaps the same place as the Wise Men, the land of Spiritual Lost and Then Found Socks. That the Spirit blows where He wills not only means that strange things, like the conversion of Alice Cooper, happen, but it means that the Spirit has blown where it will. He has flocks we know not of.

God was pleased, in the old covenant, to have His people be visible in the nation of Israel. He was pleased to commingle a national identity, and a spiritual one. Now, in these latter days, He is looking for those who worship in Spirit and in truth. But His grace does not spread like water without a tide. The leaven will indeed get through the whole lump, but it will do so organically, not uniformly. Which means that we ought not to be surprised that God has blessed the west, that He has blessed this nation, nor that He has, as yet, not shown the same grace toward the Chinese, or the Libyans, or the Rwandans.

He will have mercy on whom He will have mercy. And He will have mercy when He will have mercy. But the point of that affirmation goes back to the will of the Spirit blowing. It happens not by the will of those who run, but by the good pleasure of the Father. We show ourselves strangers to the grace of God when we think He gives it because of how wonderful we are.

Isn’t it telling that after Paul gives a verbal whipping to the proud Jews in the church, that they should not turn up their noses at the Gentiles God was grafting in, he takes the time to give a preemptive scolding to the Gentiles. “Hey, don’t get cocky. It happened to them; it could happen to you.” And yet we continue to fall into the same sin. We think the kingdom of God will look rather like our neighborhood, and then pride ourselves in avoiding the folly of political correctness.

The truth is that the only thing we know for certain about the ethnic make-up of the kingdom of God is this, there were will be some of everything. The people of God are those covered by the blood of Christ.

This is the twentieth installment of an ongoing series of pieces here on the nature and calling of the church. Stay tuned for more. Remember also that we at Sovereign Grace Fellowship meet this Sunday November 17 at 10:30 AM at our new location, at our beautiful farm at 112811 Garman Road, Spencerville, IN. Please come join us.

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God in the Hands of Angry Sinners- A Misunderstanding

It was a strange time for me. I was attending a high school that was so nominal in its commitment to the Christian faith that the high school English teacher was an atheist. Still, his was among my favorite classes, both because of what we read and because of the things we talked about. While attending this school during the week, I also attended a decidedly Christian Sunday school. The late Dr. John H. Gerstner, my father’s mentor, was my Sunday school teacher.

During the week, and during the weekend, for a delightful several months, we were studying the work of the Puritans. Dr. Gerstner’s class was called “The Puritans: The Church at Its Best.” Dr. Kupersmith’s tenth-grade English class was called just that, but we read snippets from several Puritan authors as a part of our survey of American literature. We read a bit of Cotton Mather’s masterwork, Magnalia Christi Americana, and we read Jonathan Edwards’ sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”

Although I was a convinced Calvinist at the time, I must confess that it seemed a little strange that we were reading Puritans in English class. It was a sort of a good news, bad news thing. We were reading the works of men who poured their lives into striving for change, to save souls, and to shape a culture. And we were reading them like curious old, cultural artifacts, as if the proclamation of the Word of God could be turned into sociological dinosaur bones.

It was true enough, though it was supposed to shock us, that people who thought this way once shaped the nation. It was true enough that it was true enough that strangest of all, one Sunday morning my atheist English teacher showed up to hear my hero and Sunday school teacher expound on the Puritans and how their thought shaped their culture. I prayed during the whole class that God would show Him the light. Indeed He did. But this man still preferred the darkness.

I think that Sunday morning at the feet of Dr. Gerstner at the least did this for my teacher, it helped him understand me a bit better. When the English class read through Edward’s sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” most of the students were repulsed. Well, to be more accurate, everyone in the room but me was repulsed. They couldn’t imagine that anyone could sit still to hear a sermon in which God was portrayed so harshly.

If you are unfamiliar with the sermon, the imagery that shapes it is simple enough. Edwards encourages those in his audience to understand their situation, that they are like a spider, dangling on a single strand of web, precariously hanging above a raging fire.

God holds the upper end of that strand, such that all that separates you and that burning cauldron is that gossamer thread. We didn’t, as a class, talk about God per se, but Edward’s perception of Him. They knew for sure that God wasn’t at all like that. They were just shocked that anyone could think He was. But of course, they figured, this was a long time ago, practically all the way back to the dark ages.

After all the bellowing from my classmates finished, I gingerly raised my hand. “I’m sorry,” I said, “but I think you all have completely missed the point of this sermon. Edwards wasn’t trying to paint God as an ogre. He wasn’t trying to impress upon his flock the harsh judgment of God. No, this is a sermon about the grace of God.” There was a brief and stunned silence as the class took in my hypothesis.

When they understood what I said, they saw Edwards in a new light. He wasn’t the world’s worst Calvinist — I was. They bellowed like so many spiders dangling over a fire. Grace?! Grace?! How in the world could I argue that this was about grace?

I went on to explain, though I doubt I persuaded anyone, that the grace was simple enough to see. It was found in that gossamer thread, and in the hand that held it. Edwards isn’t telling his audience how mean God is to hold them over the fire, but how gracious He is that He hadn’t yet dropped them in the fire.

The difference, then, between Puritan culture and our culture isn’t found, in one sense, in differing conceptions of God. Rather, it is found in different understandings of man. The culture’s wholesale rejection of the theology that served as its foundation isn’t of the predestinating God, but of the total depravity of man. The world, and that which is of the world in the church, hate the Reformed faith because of what it rightly tells us we deserve. We affirm we have earned the wrath of God, while they affirm God has earned our wrath.

Which is why our attempts at soft-selling the living God have failed so miserably. As we, in trying to call the lost to Christ cover over the wrath of God, we in turn cover over the one thing they need to grasp. Everyone’s already alright with God, because we aren’t spiders, but the pinnacle of creation. Indeed, we are so committed to our own goodness that we leave God dangling over the fire, finding Him guilty for not making all our dreams come true.

Perhaps by God’s grace, one day students will be shocked at how we in this century misunderstood the nature of God and the nature of man.

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God Knows My Heart; I, However, Clearly Do Not

Here we find an expression that is most strange- God knows my heart. Nine times out of ten the speaker using this expression is seeking comfort in the face of some sin. I do something wrong. Either my own conscience or someone else points out my wrongdoing. That sense of guilt stings, so I seek to salve it by affirming that I’m still good because God knows my heart. My behavior may look bad to the casual observer. The all-knowing God, however, looks beyond the surface, and finds in my heart a veritable bouquet of sugar and spice and everything nice.

It is true enough that God knows our hearts. There is nothing hidden from Him. He will never allow circumstances or other outward so called “evidences” to mislead Him in any way. He knows the innocent to be innocent and the guilty to be guilty. Which is precisely why this expression “God knows my heart” ought to terrify us rather than comfort us. While our hearts are adepts at deception, they never fool Him. They fool us daily, but never Him. That we think Him knowing our hearts is a comforting thought reveals that we have already been fooled by our own deceptive hearts.

Where this expression gets truly strange, however, is where it actually is a comforting thought. Yes, there is a way to understand this expression and to rejoice in it. It is not that God knowing my heart leads me to believe that He knows my innocence. Rather it is that God knowing my heart leads me to believe that He knows my guilt. Why would that be a comfort? Because He loves me anyway. I never have to fear that God will one day discover something worse about me that will change His perspective on me.

God knows, better than the devil himself, better than me, better than those I have sinned against, exactly how dirty, dark, deceitful my heart is, and yet He still has adopted me into His family, loves me with an immutable, eternal, infinite and personal love, by name. He knows my heart and finds there not something lovely and honorable but something He has already forgiven in Christ. There is no waiting for the other shoe to drop. There is nothing to hide.

God’s infinite knowledge of all things, including each one of our hearts, is never going to change. It is an inescapable given. When we, fools that we are, seek to hide our hearts from Him, we can be assured they will be exposed. When we, by the power of His Spirit, confess and expose all that is in our hearts to Him, He covers them with the blood of His Son, He of the perfect, sinless heart.

Yes, He knows my heart. By His grace He is revealing more of its darkness to me, even as He is at work washing it. And He has declared me to be just, a saint, His own beloved son.

Oh what a gospel.

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Election Reds; Jesus Reigns; Practically Sovereign and More

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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