Dr. Albert Mohler writes about five challenges that every young pastor is going to face with increasing intensity. But this article is a must-read for all biblically faithful Christians. Here’s the summary but click here to read the whole article!
- The Question of Truth
- The Gospel and the Church’s Mission
- The Necessity of Getting the Story Right, Right from the Start
- The Binding Authority of Biblical Sexual Authority
- The Exclusivity of the Gospel
We watched him address the third one yesterday in our Sunday School hour yesterday at GHBC. Here’s his summary of that point:
Some issues arise again and again, leaving no generation untouched. The continuing debates over evolution and Genesis are evidence of this pattern, with a score of generations forced to deal with the question of beginnings.
The current debates among evangelicals have reached a vital point – the intersection of Genesis and the gospel. We must affirm that the gospel requires a clear affirmation of the historicity of Adam and Eve and the historical reality of the Fall. The Bible’s metanarrative of Creation, Fall, Redemption, and New Creation requires the historical reality of God’s work in every movement of the story.
The Apostle Paul makes the historicity of Adam – and his federal headship –
central to our understanding of the gospel. Those who insist that evangelicals must accommodate the gospel to the prevailing evolutionary dogma are actually insisting that the gospel be denied. If we get the story of the gospel wring in the beginning, we will have what Paul condemned as another gospel in the end.