Part 1 In my first post I noted the important connection between orthodox views of the Covenant of Works and the doctrine of justification. This brings me to John Murray. John Murray famously questioned the traditional terminology or verbal description of...
[Recently, I submitted an essay for an upcoming book in memory Dr. Robert Paul Martin entitled: A Contemporary Treatment of the Covenant of Works in the Tradition of John Murray. I do not intend to reproduce the entirety of that essay in these blog...
In the first post in this short series I acknowledged that we are spending a good bit of time, effort, and money to achieve accreditation with the Association of Reformed Theological Seminaries. When I was asked why this matter of accreditation was so important to...
Many of you are already aware of our accreditation visit to South Carolina last October. Kyle Kearbey, Rex Semrad, and I had a safe and successful trip. We were moved from applicant status to candidate status by the Commissioners of the Association or Reformed...
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In this last post I want simply to collect a number of practical thoughts which flow out of a biblical view of the plurality, parity, and diversity of the eldership. 1.) See in the diversity, parity, and plurality of the eldership...
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 We have looked at the reality that there is diversity of spiritual giftedness in true elders and that there is also diversity of financial support. In this post a third area of diversity among the elders will be our...
In our last post we looked at the reality that there is a diversity of spiritual gifts in true elders. I commented that this has important practical implications for the church and its elders. But there is also diversity in other respects, specifically...
A few years ago a friend of mine mistakenly affirmed that I believed in the absolute parity of the eldership. I informed him, and let me now inform all of my readers, that I emphatically do not believe in such a view of parity. I believe, in fact, in three...
We distribute a book as a Seminary that I helped to write and edit many years ago. It is entitled, In Defense of Parity. In that short volume, I with a few other men defend the notion (which many of us hold as Reformed Baptists) that there is no official distinction...
Conclusion If Owen was indeed wrong as we have seen, what can we learn from this fact? It is to answer this question that I have taken so much time to firmly disagree with the properly revered John Owen. I believe there is something to be learned from the...
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