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Thou hast mangled the Gospel judiciously...

Here is a sermon from C. H. Spurgeon called The Need of Decision for the Truth that is a must read. Go to this link to read it in its entirety. Here is an excerpt:

...some doctrines are true, and that statements which are diametrically opposite to them are not true,—that when "No" is the fact, "Yes" is out of court, and that when "Yes" can be justified, "No" must be abandoned. ...We are not left to fabricate the message as we go along. We are not sent forth by our Master with this kind of general commission—" As you shall think in your heart and invent in your head as you march on, so preach. Keep abreast of the times. Whatever the people want to hear, tell them that, and they shall be saved." Verily, we read not so. There is something definite in the Bible. It is not quite a lump of wax to be shaped at our will, or a roll of cloth to be cut according to the prevailing fashion. Your great thinkers evidently look upon the Scriptures as a box of letters for them to play with, and make what they like of, or a wizard's bottle, out of which they may pour anything they choose from atheism up to spiritualism. ...We have to deal with God, whose servants we are, and he will not be honored by our delivering falsehoods; neither will he give us a reward, and say," Well done, good and faithful servant, thou hast mangled the gospel as judiciously as any man that ever lived before thee." We stand in a very solemn position, and ours should be the spirit of old Micaiah, who said, "As the Lord my God liveth, before whom I stand, whatsoever the Lord saith unto me that will I speak.... If we would show decision for the truth, we must not only do so by our tone and manner, but by our daily actions....Above all we must show our zeal for the truth by continually, in season and out of season, endeavoring to maintain it in the tenderest and most loving manner, but still very earnestly and firmly. "

Posted by Lisa on April 12, 2006

Comments

Thank you so much for your insightful thoughts on this and willingness to post them, Lisa!

I was going to post this on your previous entry's comment section, but I thought it may have been more applicable here. In 2003, Tony Campolo had a "unique" (for lack of a better term) take on the topic of opposition to women preachers. This article is almost 3 years old, and he may have recanted since then, (but I don't believe he has).
I stumbled across this as I was researching the issue (which, as you are aware, Lisa, has been near and dear to my heart for some time, now).

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=16205

Posted by: LG | April 12, 2006 11:01 AM

I remember reading this awhile back, Littlegal.
This was the perfect post for you to leave this link on.

"Well done, Campolo, thou hast mangled the gospel as judiciously as any man that ever lived before thee."

in other words, thou mangled it quite horridly.

Posted by: 4ever4given | April 12, 2006 01:20 PM

Spurgeon is not politically correct is he? Ha. Wouldn't the liberals go hard after him if he was alive and preaching today? What a concept, Right is Right and Wrong is Wrong. If something is true then all opposed is not true. Thanks for posting this Lisa.

In Christ

Mike Ratliff

Posted by: Mike Ratliff | April 12, 2006 03:25 PM

Yes, Mike R., If Spurgeon were a preacher of our day... I WOULD LOVE IT!!! I am obviously not a liberal... nor am I a doormat.

I like the way you put it.
"Right is Right and Wrong is Wrong. If something is true then all opposed is not true."

So simple... so true. Yet why is it that this world says "what is truth for me is truth, which may not be truth for you... and that's okay."

No... it isn't okay.

Posted by: 4ever4given | April 12, 2006 03:33 PM

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
-G.K. Chesterton

To deem all beliefs equally true is sheer nonsense for the simple reason that to deny that statement would also, then, be true. But if denial of the statement is also true, then all religions are not true.
-- Ravi Zacharias

There are three errors to avoid. Some pretend to be guided by the Spirit and neglect the written Word. Some despise the teaching of the Spirit and trust to their own understanding of the Word. Others reject both the Spirit and the Word and go after another rule and guide.

To none of these is the promise of the Spirit given. They are left to their foolish, corrupt imaginations.

Scripture is the believer’s rule and the Holy Spirit is his guide.

Do we continue in prayer, and abound in prayer, as we ought, for that Spirit who alone can lead us into all truth? For that unction which teaches us all things with assurance and experience? There is no duty in this world more acceptable to God than fervent prayers for a right understanding of his mind and will in his Word. On this, everything else depends. --John Owen

Posted by: Roadkill | April 12, 2006 08:06 PM

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