Chris Anderson on Recent Events
January 31, 2012
Pastor Chris Anderson has a very perceptive post from a Fundamentalist perspective, on recent events.
On another note, these recent events have really only brought to the surface tensions and problems which are bound to exist when one tries to make too hard and fast a separation between doctrinal confession and the practical in order to build some form of co-belligerent consensus. Confession and practice always stand in some relationship to each other. Given our fallen, messy world, it may rarely or never be a case of one simply and completely determining the other; but one cannot build the church simply on agreement on a few doctrinal points. Practice matters too.
On another note, these recent events have really only brought to the surface tensions and problems which are bound to exist when one tries to make too hard and fast a separation between doctrinal confession and the practical in order to build some form of co-belligerent consensus. Confession and practice always stand in some relationship to each other. Given our fallen, messy world, it may rarely or never be a case of one simply and completely determining the other; but one cannot build the church simply on agreement on a few doctrinal points. Practice matters too.
