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Sunday, July 17, 2005

MacArthur on Parenting

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Illustrative of why I don't think John MacArthur is "all that and a bag of chips."

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posted by texashimalaya @ 7/17/2005 08:42:00 AM  

3 Comments:

  • At 7/18/2005 9:10 PM, Blogger texashimalaya said…

    Sammantha, you are right in that the law shows us the seriousness of the sin. It also shows the AMAZINGNESS of grace, that something so serious could be met with the gift of Christ's blood. As steve noted in his blog, it is fine to show the seriousness of the law, but as a preacher of the Gospel of grace, you better end with Gospel and grace, not a moral exposition of the law that leaves your parishioners either foolishly resolved to try harder (good luck meeting the standards of the law) or feeling defeated and distanced from God because of the weight of there own sin.

    I am seeing more and more moralistic preaching in the churches and less and less preaching of the Gospel, and it really disturbs me. There is this kind of attitude which seems to say "We use the Romans Road or "The Bridge" in all our outreach ministries, so we have the Gospel covered. Then we can just teach how to have a good life and be a good person the rest of the time."

    That is my experience in Bible churches at least and the reason why we switched to a liturgical PCA church.

     

  • At 7/20/2005 1:57 AM, Blogger Nutriaboy said…

    I stumbled across your blog via some web browsing and read your comments.

    I would encourage you to actually read MacArthur's book on Christian parenting rather than caricaturing his comments on the topic as you have done. If you think that what you've expressed here and through the link provided his complete and accurate view on children and parenting then you would be mistaken.

    Criticism is a good thing when leveled fairly.

     

  • At 7/20/2005 7:09 AM, Blogger texashimalaya said…

    That is fair enough. I do like a great deal of the preaching that I have heard of MacArthur. As I said in the above comment, I perhaps did react unfairly because of personal experiences - as well as the Ezzo type theories of parenting that I see in the church and I feel have some real problems. I speek about these in "Stench of Legalism" on the side bar. Thank you for the reminder to criticize fairly. I am learning through the blogsphere that second hand information is good, but it isn't always wise to critique off of it. Of course that means I have to do much more reading . . . . or keep my mouth shut! Both of which might be good possibilities!

     

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