While the advocates of progressive theology like to characterize “fundamentalists” as “arrogant”, there’s a movement afoot to promote a “Humble Orthodoxy” and it’s attracting thousands of young people.
Given that the United Church of Christ ostensibly united the reformed people in two major branches of the reformation church (the Congregationalists and the Evangelical & Reformed Church), shouldn’t this irenic reformed orthodoxy be our claim to fame instead of our leadership continually moving away from biblical theology and morality?
From the Christian Post
Sometimes, Christians get so concerned with what’s right and wrong, we lose our humility, said one Washington pastor and author.
“We think that we see what’s right and therefore we become self righteous thinking ‘I am clever enough to know this. I am clever enough to figure this out,” said Mark Dever, senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.
Over the last four days, some 3,500 young adults engaged in the study Scripture while leaving the self righteousness at home. The young Christians traveled to Louisville, Ky., for the 2008 New Attitude conference to focus on “God’s Word” and take up “humble orthodoxy” – believing, living and representing biblical truth with humility.
Joshua Harris, who founded New Attitude, wanted the thousands to experience the power of sound doctrine “and the fact that truth really changes your life.”
“We never want to assume the Gospel,” Harris cautioned. “We always want to go back to and focus on the reality that Jesus died for our sins. We want to hold fast to those truths of the Christian faith …. But at the same time, we want to be humble.”
Agreeing with the combination “humble orthodoxy,” Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a preeminent evangelical, stressed the need for sound biblical teaching but reminded believers of how they have come to know the truth claims of the Gospel.
“We need to say ‘we are sinners saved by grace who know the truth not because we’re so smart but because God has spoken to us,” Mohler said….
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