Yesterday I found a fascinating phrase on a church’s “Mission/Core Values” page:
We are commited to The Gospel, as the starting point for a relationship with God (1 Cor. 15:1-4).
While this is obviously a necessary tenant of one’s belief concerning the gospel, I think Mohler and Dever might find this lacking, especially considering that other areas of their “core values” do indeed touch on post-conversion Christian living, viz.
“Service, as the means to built up the body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:7; Rom. 12:3-8).”
(The typographical error is from the original.) This, like the first statement, is not untrue in itself; it simply fails to paint the whole picture, and minimizes the centrality of the gospel and its importance to believers for their own continuing faithfulness (GPTG 127ff).
Am I being too hard on these guys? Or should we, in keeping with the aforementioned authors, seek to better understand the role of the gospel in the believer’s life and make sure the official position of our church (or core values, whatever) reflects that understanding?
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