Robust Doctrine (HT: PureChurch)

Can’t believe we’re only one week away from Pastor Anyabwile’s keynote at the Peacemaker Conference! I’m psyched. I just love his blog. What a churchman!

Today he linked to a great quote from Between Two Worlds:

The Answer to Practical Problems Must Involve Robust Doctrine

(It’s a great quote, but I’d skip the comments. Nothing too edifying there.)

Here’s a snippet to tempt you:

“Theology exists in order to be applied to the day-to-day problems of the Christian church. Every doctrine has its application …

(Re: Paul …) It’s not only that you have the emphasis on the unity between theology and practice but you have the emphasis on the applicability of the profoundest theology to the most mundane and most common-place problems. Who would ever imagine that the response to the glory of the incarnation might be to give to the collection for the poor? Who might imagine that the application of the glories of New Testament Christology might be to stop our quarreling and our divisiveness in the Christian ekklesia?

That is what Paul is doing here. He is telling them: You have these practical problems; the answer is theological; remember your theology and place your behavior in the light of that theology. Place your little problems in the light of the most massive theology.”

Amen!

And thanks again, Pastor Anyabwile.

Blessings!
— Tara B.