…and touch on sanctification.
“We are so afraid of a maladjusted view of sanctification that we beg off [teaching] it all together. A number of PCA churches teach the ‘doctines of grace’, but never give an expectation as to how grace should be operative in us, what it should do to us. We teach regeneration of the heart, but not the doctrine of the ‘new man’. We assume it will follow, and I think it is a bad assumption. I heard a Presbytery examiner ask a candidate for ordination, ‘Define justification, and touch on sanctification’. I thought to myself, ‘Well, there’s our problem.’” - Rich Lambert, New St. Peter’s Presbyterian Church
February 22nd, 2010 |
And not just sanctification, but also empowerment… If our reformed theology is truly trinitarian, we would do well to know better the person and work of the Holy Spirit. We need the Holy Spirit to empower us in the work of ministry.