by Rev. Chuck Muether, Director of Advancement If you were a child of the seventies, you might recall those catchy back-to-school “good morning to you” Levis commercials. When they rolled out, you knew that summer was officially over and it was time to get some new cool threads before that first bell of a new school […]
The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (7): and the Mission of the Church
Limited Atonement and the Mission of the Church If it is true that God only intends to save his chosen people and if Christ only died for them, then how can we bring the message of the gospel to all men? And, if the elect are chosen to receive salvation without fail, then why have […]
The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (6): Universal Application?
From last week’s post: It is dangerous exegesis (or “isogesis”) to just pull a verse out of a passage and build on it in isolation without realizing what the context is (ie. what the words around this passage are saying). In I Corinthians 7 when Paul (being unmarried) is speaking about marriage he says, “It is good […]