MarieP
Puritan Board Senior
The SBTS library was given some issues of Steve Brown's Key Life magazine, and the lot fell to me to catalog them (apparently no other library has them!)
A piece of paper fell out of one, and what I read on it really disturbed me. I already was sighing over what I've heard about Brown and Key Life. I googled, and sure enough, it was a quotation from Brown:
I'm at a loss for words! How is this considered Reformed in any sense of the word? This is even further afield than what I've heard Tullian say!
What happened to "dependent responsibility"?
And there's a 2nd Commandment violation in half of the several dozen issues we have.
A piece of paper fell out of one, and what I read on it really disturbed me. I already was sighing over what I've heard about Brown and Key Life. I googled, and sure enough, it was a quotation from Brown:
“Repentance is so often misunderstood. Repentance is not changing; it is God’s way to change us. The Greek word for ‘repent’ refers to ‘changing one’s mind.’ It isn’t changing one’s behavior as is often taught. If it is that, then there are times we can repent and other times (especially in obsessive or besetting sin) when it is simply impossible.
For years, I taught that repenting was not just asking for forgiveness for spilling the milk… it was getting a mop and cleaning it up, and then going to the store to buy some more milk for the person who owned it. So, because I believed that, I could not repent of some bad stuff in my life and I thereby robbed myself of one of the most important and wonderful teachings of the Bible. God changes us and sanctification is as much a work of God’s grace as is justification.
Thus, I teach that repentance isn’t changing. It is ‘knowing who you are, who God is, what you have done and going to Him with it.’ At that point the ball is in God’s court and He begins an amazing work of the Holy Spirit in making us more and more like Jesus.
If repentance is something different than what I have just described, I don’t have a prayer. Nobody else does either, even if they don’t admit it.”
I'm at a loss for words! How is this considered Reformed in any sense of the word? This is even further afield than what I've heard Tullian say!
What happened to "dependent responsibility"?
And there's a 2nd Commandment violation in half of the several dozen issues we have.