To and From, or Into Our Father’s Open Arms

Posted on August 1, 2024 by RC

It may be the most overlooked moment of deep horror in all of the Bible. Not the eating of the fruit itself. Plenty of horror there, but it’s not overlooked. Rather it was the response of our first parents to the drawing near of their Father. Adam and Eve hear God coming to them, and they flee. We’re not in paradise any more. The God who crafted them both, who blessed them with paradise, His love, love one for another comes to them and… they run away.

The horror of sin isn’t merely the immediate destruction that comes from it. It is instead it propensity to separate us from our Father. We sin. We feel shame. The Holy One approaches, and we seek escape. It doesn’t, however, even require sin itself. It is sufficient that we are sinners.

Consider the encounter Peter had with Jesus in Luke 5. Like Adam and Eve, Peter was profoundly blessed with an astonishing haul of fish due to Jesus’ intervention. Rather than thanking Him however, the manifestation of Jesus’ power, and the knowledge of his own nature led Peter to cry out, “Depart from me for I am a sinful man, O Lord” (Luke 5:8).

True enough that Peter was a sinful man. But there is no immediate sin recounted in the story. Still, Peter wanted to get away. Peter would go on, of course, to commit multiple egregious sins against His Lord. None more horrific than denying Jesus three times through the night of His arrest. Here too Peter sought to distance himself from the Holy One of Israel, but this time to save his skin.

The solution to this problem, however, is not that we would not sin. That avenue is not available to us on this side of death. Rather, the difference between running from Him and running to Him is found in repentance. After the betrayal, when Peter is once again fishing, and Jesus stands on the shore, Peter doesn’t so much run as swim to Him. He does all that he can to get close quickly.

And Jesus, like our heavenly Father, welcomed him. Such reflects the father in the parable of the prodigal son. When the son comes to himself the first thing he does is go toward his father. His father, however, does not merely wait for his son, but runs to him. He doesn’t merely forgive him, but rejoices over him. His arms are always open wide for those who acknowledge the reality of sin in our lives.

The difference between sheep and goats isn’t the sheep are good and goats bad. The difference is that goats always seek to get away, while His sheep know His voice and follow. We all fall short. Goats think the problem is His holiness. Sheep know the solution is His grace. He does not wait for us to get it together, to clean ourselves up. He waits for us to be changed by His Spirit such that we know both how dirty we are and that He is the one solution.

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Marcia Montenegro; Olympic Blasphemy; Loving Wisdom & More

Posted on July 31, 2024 by RC

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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The Scandal of the Gospel in a Graceless World

Posted on July 30, 2024 by RC

All of us, both within and without the church, face the temptation of being legalists when dealing with others’ sins against us, and antinomians when dealing with our sins against others. We want those we have perceived to have wronged us to pay for what they have done, while reminding our own tender consciences that we all deserve a little grace.

The two propensities come to a head as we seek to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to the walking dead all about us. The first objection, typically, comes from the antinomian side. The sacrifice of witnessing to our enemies is that we know we will be hated for pointing out the reality of their sin. We’ll be pilloried as narrow, bigoted, judgmental, medieval. We will run smack into Romans 1. The unbeliever, in his unrighteousness unrighteously suppresses his knowledge of his unrighteousness. He, in short, doesn’t want to hear it.

The irony, of course, is that what we are trying to tell them is just what they need to deal with their guilt. We would be wise to remember that when we fall under the onslaught of their wrath. They want to hide from their sin, while we are trying to tell them how to make it go away.

The second problem, however, arises when we get to the promise of God. As we preach, “Repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved” they will find “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved” to be almost as incredulous as “Repent.” In fact I’ve often heard this objection- “What a minute. You’re telling me that if Adolph Hitler had simply said just before his death, “Jesus, forgive me” he would have entered into heaven at his death? That’s all it takes, just saying you’re sorry?”

Of course that’s not all it takes. Though our repentance is never the ground of our peace with God- that is, God doesn’t forgive us simply because repenting is such a wonderful thing that it covers our sins, it is necessary and necessary that it be genuine. Saying something and meaning it, because we are sinners, often means two different things.

Second, the ground is not in our repentance, but His provision. “All it took” was for God to put on humanity, to live a perfect life, and to suffer the wrath of the Father due to all those who would believe. The passion of Christ is not a small thing.

The scandal, in fact, is less that we who are sinners should get off scot free, but that God should pay such a high cost for our redemption. Had Hitler repented at the last moment he would indeed now be enjoying the blessings of eternity. Not, however, because his sins would have gone unpunished, but because his sins would have been punished on Christ. And such are we.

I wonder if perhaps those outside the kingdom would be less tempted to think of the gospel as a cheap get out of jail free card if we were more faithful in grasping that we are Hitler, and Jesus suffered for us. The gospel is not for good people who fall a bit short, but for evil people. Jesus did not come to rescue the beautiful princess. He came to rescue the ugly hag that killed Him, because He laid His life down. Perhaps the gospel would scandalize the world less if it scandalized the church more.

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How Does a Church Develop a Sense of Community?

Posted on July 29, 2024 by RC

There are two kinds of church goers in this world, those who simply want to be left alone, and those who long to be a part of a community. There are plenty of churches out there that cater to the first group, and are proud of it. It’s not a bug, but a feature. There are churches out there that cater to the first group, but don’t want to. They just don’t know how to fix the problem. Then there are, albeit few and far between, churches that actually are a community.

Those people looking for community in the church often don’t find it, mostly because it’s not something you find. Imagine you are walking through the woods as the sun begins to set. The temperature drops; the shadows lengthen. You begin to reminisce about earlier times, and soon you have an intense craving for a campfire, complete with graham crackers, chocolate and marshmallows. Would you increase your pace, in the hopes that if you cover more ground you might find these things?

Community isn’t something you find. It’s something you build. And you have to do it organically. Turn it into a program and you’ll find rain coming down, matches that won’t light and graham crackers infested with bugs. You don’t, contra the churches in the second group, program community, selling small groups from the pulpit, hawking progressive dinners, and reminding congregants whose last names end in A-L to bring a main dish, and M-Z a side dish and dessert.

Here’s what you do. Are you ready for the secret? You invite a family over for dinner. The whole family. It doesn’t matter what you serve. Hot dogs are fine. Soup, even though everyone knows soup’s not a meal, is good. You don’t have to dress up, wear an Armani suit. Just spend time together around the table, or around a campfire that you build.
That’s step one.

Step two is this- do it again. Invite another family over. There doesn’t have to be an occasion. You don’t have to plan a bunch of party games. Step three, if someone invites you, go. It may feel awkward; it may be inconvenient. You might miss the premiere of season three of your favorite show. But go. Remember also that they will be sinners, just like you are. Remember also that they, like you, are infinitely, immutably, by name, beloved of the Father.

Here is what will happen. You will get to know each other. Next, you’ll come to care about each other. Third, you’ll come to serve each other. Finally, you’ll find yourself naturally and joyfully living out all the “one another’s” Scripture gives us. And you’ll wonder how you ever survived without it.

If your schedule doesn’t have room for shared meals, change it. Take things off your plate that are normal, but don’t feed your soul or serve your brother. If you fear your home or your family doesn’t measure up, do it anyway. It’s not a competition. The prize doesn’t go to the person closest to Martha Stewart but to the one with the warmest welcome. In short, don’t make excuses. Get to work at making joy, and blessing the body.

This is the seventh installment of an ongoing series of pieces here on the nature and calling of the church. Stay tuned for more.

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The Moral of the Story- On the Obedience of Christ

Posted on July 26, 2024 by RC

Everybody loves Jesus. Marxists love Jesus, because He was such a radical revolutionary. Unitarians love Jesus, because He befriended the social outcasts. Liberals love Jesus because, well, because He was liberal. Even some conservatives love Jesus, because He was so conservative. Mark Twain quipped that God made man in His own image, and ever since man has been returning the favor. The same is true with respect to God the Son. We make Him out to be just like us, only, everyone will concede, slightly better. Jesus, in short, is universally loved because He, just like us, is deemed to be such an upstanding man.

Which is true enough. Jesus was in fact an upstanding man. His moral character was impeccable. He was, as it is increasingly controversial to say, a great moral teacher. This even garners Him some minimal level of authority. Quoting Jesus will score you at least as many points as quoting Confucius, at least if you choose the right quotes.

There is, however, a profound chasm that separates a “great moral teacher” from a perfectly obedient man. It is one thing to believe Jesus was better than we are, another to affirm that He kept the law of God perfectly. To affirm such is to affirm a law. They refuse to recognize a law, any law. To the Greeks the cross was foolishness. To the Jews it was a stumbling block. To the post-modern, however, the problem isn’t the cross, but what preceded it, the obedient life.

Theological liberalism can handle the cross. The purpose of the cross, according to those who think Jesus stayed dead, was to set an example, to show us how far we ought to go to love our neighbor. There is, in this thinking, no atonement. There is no atonement, however, not because such would be too much for Jesus, but because it would mean we have sins that need to be covered. It would mean that outside of Christ, we are under the wrath of God. To think in terms of atonement, we would have to think about the unthinkable.

The righteousness of Christ, however, is a little more difficult for the world to squeeze into its self-righteous wineskins. It burns as it goes down. Which is why the world speaks not of the life of Christ, but of His teachings. His teachings can be made amorphous enough that with just a pinch of dishonesty, and a smidge of deconstructionism, we can turn them into our own teachings. But we cannot turn His absolute obedience into our own, at least, without conceding that God has a law, that we don’t keep it, and, well, without trusting in His complete work and becoming a Christian.

This is, however, the dilemma of the postmoderns. Without a standard, how can one distinguish between a great moral teacher and a reprehensible moral cretin? Without a moral measuring stick, Jesus and Hitler are not only on the same moral plane, but they are on the same moral plane with all of us, because there is only one plane. If there is no target, no one is closer to it than anyone else.

Therein is the offense of the Gospel in our age. Postmodernism’s very reason for existence is to escape a transcendent moral law. It is a philosophy that was created not to remove the guilt of sin, to remove the stigma of sin. We who profess Christ are wrong, because we profess that there is a right, even as we confess that only one Man ever attained it.

What separates our peculiar age from that which Paul faced isn’t, however, the different offenses that the world takes to the gospel message. Rather it is the response of the church. It was the Cross that offended the Greeks and scandalized the Jews. But it was the Cross that Paul preached. In our day the obedience of Christ offends, and so we never speak of it. The church in our day seeks to hide the offense, and in so doing, puts its light under a bushel. Jesus the hero upon the cross is just fine. Jesus the obedient Son must never see the light of day.

The Scripture calls us the first born of many brethren. In a show of the depth of the grace of God, we are told that Jesus is not only the husband of the church, but our elder brother as well. If, in fact, we belong to Him, we must profess Him. We must declare not only the glory of the cross, but the glory that led to the cross. We must profess His obedience, His righteousness that by faith is ours.

We must remember that He was not crucified because He was a great moral teacher. Rather, He was crucified because He obeyed His heavenly Father. They hung Him because they could convict Him of nothing. And because He is the firstborn of many brethren, we must in turn see the cross not only as the only atonement for our sins, but also as our example.

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Nobody Told Me: Strange Days Indeed, Most Peculiar Mama

Posted on July 25, 2024 by RC

Though I confess it didn’t take a great deal of courage or insight to make the prediction, I did suggest when 2024 began that we all buckle up for a bumpy ride. One could argue so far I’ve been off. After all, in just this decade we’ve had a summer of violent riots in dozens of cities, a pandemic, a national lockdown, a stolen election, and scores of tourists locked up for months on end, charged with insurrection, perverts demanding to dance before children. Indeed this is one reason why my “prediction” was as far fetched as suggesting that with or without Caitlyn Clark, the US Olympic Women’s basketball team will win the gold in Paris.

This year there have been precious few if any riots. There hasn’t yet been an election. The stock market has broken records and Karen masks are as out of style as leisure suits. All quiet on the western front.

Well, except for all those phony indictments against the Republican candidate for president. Except for the Georgia Attorney General hiring her secret lover as special prosecutor. Except for the sitting white, male, US president claiming to be the first black woman to serve as vice-president. Except for that same US President stumbling through a presidential candidates debate like a dementia sufferer. Except for the former president getting shot in the keystone state while under the care of either the Keystone Kops or under orders of the deep state. Except for the sitting president stepping out of the race, on twitter, in a letter. Except for that same president being out of the public eye for days on end. Except for whatever happens next.

There are two wildly shocking things here. First are all the wildly shocking things here. Second is that it continues to feel like just another year, that no one seems to find this wildly shocking. Where are the protests? Where are the screeching prophets telling us the end is near? Our indifference, acceptance of what we’ve become is damning proof of what we’ve become.

I’m not a huge fan of superhero movies. One reason is that the ante has to always be raised. It’s not two swashbucklers with clashing swords. It’s not two cowboys at high noon. It’s not dogfights in the skies over Tokyo. It’s one superhero hurling whole galaxies at another superhero who is certainly stunned, but who gets up and throws galaxies back at the first guy. If a superhero can do anything, and take anything, well, it won’t be a super story.

We’ve reached this same point in our news cycle. Assassination attempt? Yawn. Coup against the president? Big deal. Wake me when the nukes start falling. I don’t know what the coming months will show. I do know that we are little more than spectators to the sinking of the USS US. I do know that we would be wise, while seeking to be faithful to the end, not to put our trust in princes. May the Lord find a remnant and spare us further the demise of this once great nation.

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Where Seldom is Heard; ERLC Waffle Fest; Truth and Time

Posted on July 24, 2024 by RC

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Run Away, Run Away- The Wisdom of Fleeing Temptation

Posted on July 23, 2024 by RC

There’s a reason he’s called the rich, young fool. Though he was wise enough to ask the right person, Jesus, his question, “what must I do to inherit eternal life” he was fool enough to claim, after Jesus reminded him of the 10 Commandments, that he had kept them from his youth. There’s a smug pride in him, the same smug pride in us when we think we’d never say such a thing. Praying, “I thank you Lord that I am not like other men. I acknowledge the reality of sin and my need for forgiveness” is not that far from the Pharisee’s prayer.

We are, unlike that rich young fool, willing to admit that we are sinners. Are we, however, willing to admit that we have sinned? That we are sinning? That we will sin? Are we not so prideful that we see the warning of Jesus to flee temptation as something quaint and old-fashioned? Do we not presume upon the grace of God and see sin as something small? Do we not over-estimate our own strength by playing with fire and thinking we won’t get burned?

Sin is destructive. A little harmless flirting, a quick peek at those images on the internet, talking about our suspicions about our pastor, what’s the worst that could happen? Death. Broken homes and the broken children that come with them, church splits. Nobody sneaks up on those sins planning for everything to blow up. Nobody intends to fall into grievous sin. We just want to get look at it, to peer over the edge.

Reformation starts now, as it did then by putting aside our foolish plans for covering our sins and returning to the one plan, repenting and resting in the finished work of Christ alone. That means owning the cost of our redemption. This sin, the one drawing me in right now, doesn’t merely increase the number of coins Tetzel will demand of me. This sin is one more ounce of the poison cup the Prince of Peace had to drink for me. A casual “Put it on Jesus’ tab” is a good sign that we are not truly His friend.

How seriously did Jesus take the dangers of sin? In His Sermon on the Mount He had this to say,

If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast It from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell (Matthew 5:29, 30).

Sin comes to us as a furry kitten, leaves us behind as a roaring lion. Boasting that we are beyond temptation is nothing but an invitation. Humbly fleeing, on the other hand, closes the door. No one of us has ever brought good out of sin. Better that we get out while the getting is good.

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Why does the church meet together? Questions on the Church

Posted on July 22, 2024 by RC

When the Bible commands of us that we not forsake the gathering together of the saints (Hebrew 10:25) it tells us that we are required to attend regular services. While I may attend to the question of why God commands such (remembering, of course, that He has no obligation to reveal to us the “why”) this is not the question I’m considering here. Rather I am attempting to understand the function or purpose of our weekly meetings. What is the goal of gathering together?

The church is called to equip the saints. That requires time together. The church is called to fellowship together. That requires time together. The church is called to pray together. That requires time together. The church is called to proclaim the good news of the substitutionary death, the burial, resurrection and ascension of our Lord. That requires time together.

The church, at least in our day, finds itself competing for the time and attention of its members. Children’s sports leagues now schedule games on Sunday mornings. In the summer there’s usually plenty of room at church, while the local lakes tend to be crowded. And of course the waitlist at your favorite restaurant waits for no one. In an understandable, though I’d argue misguided, attempt to deal with this competition, many churches seek to cram as much of the above biblical callings of the church into as brief a time as possible.

What we end up with is a rushed at most hour and a half of praise music, announcements and a practical homily designed to avoid alienating any unbelievers in the audience. All of which misses the point as to why we gather. We gather to worship the living God. There is an audience when we gather, but He is one.

It is a cliché, and like many cliches it has become one because it has truth in it. We do not come to get but to give. And we find that when we give we receive. The worship is the giving. The blessing is the receiving. The point, to finish the circle, is the giving.

Can unbelievers be brought into the kingdom while we are giving worship? Of course. But they are not the reason for the gathering. Can believers be instructed and edified while we are giving worship? Of course, but even that is not the reason for the gathering. Can believers experience the unity of the body and encourage one another when we gather? Of course, but that is not the reason for the gathering.

Marva Dawn put it well when she called worship, “a royal waste of time.” It is royal because we meet with the king. It is a “waste” of time because it serves no other purpose. Worship is the end of the end, our reason for being just as much as our reason for meeting.

When we seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, all these things will be added to us. When we honor Him, worship Him in Spirit and in truth, all these things will be added to us. All these things, evangelism, edification, encouragement are good gifts, and inadequate in comparison to the worship of the living God. He is why we gather, our Maker, Redeemer and Friend.

This is the sixth installment of an ongoing series of pieces here on the nature and calling of the church. Stay tuned for more.

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The Spirit of Rebellion in His Church

Posted on July 19, 2024 by RC

Though I haven’t the infernal wisdom that C.S. Lewis demonstrated in his classic work The Screwtape Letters, I think I know something about at least some of the devil’s stratagems. The Screwtape Letters, you remember, purported to be a series of letters written from senior demon Screwtape to junior demon Wormwood, explaining how best to assault his “patient,” the young man under his charge. Lewis’ insights were uncanny, as if he really had been spying on the devil and his minions. I have no secret wiretap, I’m merely guessing.

First, the devil is, I’m sure, rather proud of his work in the culture at large as we ditch that old devil modernism for the devil in the new dress, postmodernism. How we Christians bravely fought to tear down the smug certainty of the scientific worldview, to drive the enlightenment into the shadows. We have destroyed Frankenstein’s monster.

Precious few people today are convinced that the scientific method is the only pathway to truth. The devil’s success, however, is that there are likewise precious few people who are convinced that there is a pathway to truth. We no longer need to bow down to the mighty scientist as the grand arbiter of truth. Now we bow to the man in the mirror, as each of us has his own truth.

It cost the devil nothing to get us to buy this latest lie. He promised that if we would but embrace relativism, we would enjoy peace. No longer would my understanding of truth war against yours, because even when they contradict, we can both be right. Now we can all get along.

Except for this. If, in your reality, you have the right-of-way, and in my reality I have the right-of-way, all our smiling confidence that we can both be right won’t keep our fenders from trading paint. To Hitler, he had done nothing wrong. To the Allies he had. And soon millions of men, women, and children were dead. But we should have known. The devil never gives what he promises when he makes us a deal.

This success, however, is really small potatoes. The devil may take a sadistic joy in muddying up the world around us. But it is not the strategic ground he so desperately seeks. Victory for him isn’t confusing the world; it’s seducing the church. Like any good strategist, he is thinking several moves ahead. Relativism exists, in the devil’s game plan, not for the folly of the world, but as a tool to assault the church.

But how could relativism make any headway into the church of Christ? We are the people of the book. We are defined by creeds, affirmations of objective truths, that are true for everyone. Surely we must be immune from the folly of relativism. Sadly, we are not only not immune, but are not, in truth, people of the Word. The thin spiritual veneer that the devil drapes over his poison is simple enough — it is the Holy Spirit. The only thing that can trump God’s Word, is God Himself. It is ordinary and pedestrian to take our cues from the Bible. It’s so much more exciting and pious to hear direct from the Author. Thus relativism gallops into the church.

This problem is by no means restricted to the more flamboyant pentecostals. Otherwise austere Presbyterians have been known to baptize their sin with this bilge. Adultery may be wrong for you, some have reasoned, but to me it’s okay, because the Holy Spirit has granted me peace about the matter. The command to obey may be okay for you, but the Holy Spirit has given me a spirit of freedom. We enlist the Spirit to justify not our souls, but our sins.

This is the spirit of our age. The driving force behind the culture’s embrace of relativism is the intense desire to justify away our own sins. Remove the objective standard of the law, and you remove the accountability that comes with it. It works the same with the Holy Spirit. Remove the objective standard of the Word, and you remove the accountability that comes with it.

The devil likewise delights that we in the church are faithfully about the business of trying to remove the speck in the world’s eye, while blissfully ignoring the mote in our own. The foolishness of relativism is indeed laughable. But it is also understandable. They are, after all, fools. Folly is what they do. But we have been given a spirit of wisdom, and we still succumb to the folly.

We must never forget that for all our worldliness, the world follows the church. They do the silly things they do because we do the silly things that we do. Which means, in turn, that the fastest way to rid the world of its folly is to remove it from the church. Do we want courts that treat the Constitution as the law of the land, rather than a quaint relic? More important than letter-writing campaigns, or rallies around the flag, is for us to begin treating the Bible as our law.

The spirit of wisdom is the Spirit of Wisdom. He is indeed speaking to us, telling all of us that there is but one truth, telling us to feed upon the Word of God, for therein is life, and life abundant. He is calling us to submit to Him, by submitting to His Word, the very words of life. If He whispers anything, it is only to go to where He speaks with clarity to all of us. May He grant us the ears to hear Him where He speaks.

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