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2nite 730-830 @ church office. tell others…

Here is a few pages from The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God by D.A. Carson. It’s a small book but very helpful. I particularly like the way that Carson holds together different passages of scripture. This means that he can say that Jesus died for all but also died in a special way for the elect.

Here’s a snippet:

I argue, then, that both Arminians and Calvinists should rightly affirm that Christ died for all, in the sense that Christ’s death was sufficient for all and that Scripture portrays God as inviting, commanding, and desiring the salvation of all, out of love (in the third sense developed in the first chapter). Further, all Christians ought also to confess that, in a slightly different sense, Christ Jesus, in the intent of God, died effectively for the elect alone, in line with the way the Bible speaks of God’s special selecting love for the elect (in the fourth sense developed in the first chapter).

Read the rest of the section here.

Never heard of ‘atonement’ or Jesus?? Find out more here…

Guessing comp: 12 warm fuzzies to the first person to guess the famous Australia location where this pic was taken…

Check out my thoughts on Hillsong Youth Ministry over at The Youth Vanguard (it’s back baby!). It’s in response to an article in yesterday’s smh. I’d be interested to hear your reflections.

Thanks for praying

Have a great weekend.

This looks very exciting.  I look forward to reading through the material after the conference.

The Youth Vanguard is back.  We have a new writer and are promising to write more often!  If you interested in reading, interacting and thinking about youth ministry leave a comment here

Stunning:

21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Romans 3:21-26