Not as I do

Posted by admin on Oct 23rd, 2007
2007
Oct 23

In this article Ingrid complains:

Emerging church authors and leaders routinely dismiss the Reformation and its biblical Solas as irrelevant.

But then she fires back with this:

Heresies in the Christian church come never from the city missionary, never from the faithful pastor, never from the intense evangelist; but always from gentlemen at ease who take no actual part in our holy war.

–C.H. Spurgeon

My Comment: The heretics of today who undermine the authority of Scripture drift from conference to conference to book signing to yet another conference. They fly first class or in their own jets, they have huge advances from their publishers and they live very, very comfortable lives. It isn’t difficult being a false teacher

I can’t seem to find anywhere in scripture where Sola Spurgeon could be justified. Perhaps Ingrid should take her own advice and return to sola scriptura.

Edit:
There she goes again. It’d be nice if there was some actual scripture in there. But then again, who needs scripture when you just know you’re right. Sola Ingrida at its finest.

6 Responses

  1. Coop Says:
    October 23rd, 2007 at 12:37 pm

    Kind of like when she invoked the Book of Concord to defend Sola Scriptura?

  2. Tim Reed Says:
    October 23rd, 2007 at 12:44 pm

    Well, at least in that case she’s making a case from a Lutheran source of authority to Lutherans. In this case she’s arguing for herself, after claiming she’s all down with the solas.

  3. Rick Frueh Says:
    October 23rd, 2007 at 3:19 pm

    Spurgeon called her church a false church that was paving the way for protestants to go back to Rome. The “comfortable lifestyle” quip applies across theological boundaries. And her view that God is now using women to identify and publicly rebuke false teachers is very emergent of her, don’t ya think? Maybe she could be an elder in Bell’s church.

  4. Joe Martino Says:
    October 23rd, 2007 at 3:44 pm

    Rick,
    My church isn’t emergent. And even if we were, we wouldn’t want her. Did anyone notice her post about how the evidence that God is leaving the church is found in the fact that the kids are leaving? I wonder if that standard applies to her own church?

  5. Rick Frueh Says:
    October 23rd, 2007 at 4:38 pm

    Joe - I did not mean that as a slam to Mars Hill but to point out how inconsistent Ingrid is.

  6. Chris L Says:
    October 23rd, 2007 at 6:20 pm

    Perhaps Rick meant Ingrid was from ART Bell’s church…