Larry Hughes
Puritan Board Sophomore
Thanks everyone. Very kind words and thank you for them, but anything that really meant anything give God the glory and praise, He does the instructing. I'm glad to be a part of our faith in any way.
A lot of it comes from a combination of personal internal struggles in the faith like assurance and doubts, times when one feels abandoned, that I've gone through (internal wars of the spirit) as I suppose many do, and peering into my own sinful heart. That and great help from people who struggled that I've read who seemed to live their theology like Luther, T. Hooker, others and some in our own times guys like Michael Horton and others. Luther's experiences were tremendously helpful to me at one point. I think God put him through those in order to give him great insight into the heart of fallen man and grace. Other things like pondering on the persecuted Christians, how do they get through, it seems so foreign to us Americans. Though I think American Christians are persecuted in a much differeng way than we tend to think about it. I struggled with that a lot. Never-the-less, the struggles seem to drive doctrine and theology home, though we hate to go through them at the time.
Blessings Always In Christ Alone,
Larry
A lot of it comes from a combination of personal internal struggles in the faith like assurance and doubts, times when one feels abandoned, that I've gone through (internal wars of the spirit) as I suppose many do, and peering into my own sinful heart. That and great help from people who struggled that I've read who seemed to live their theology like Luther, T. Hooker, others and some in our own times guys like Michael Horton and others. Luther's experiences were tremendously helpful to me at one point. I think God put him through those in order to give him great insight into the heart of fallen man and grace. Other things like pondering on the persecuted Christians, how do they get through, it seems so foreign to us Americans. Though I think American Christians are persecuted in a much differeng way than we tend to think about it. I struggled with that a lot. Never-the-less, the struggles seem to drive doctrine and theology home, though we hate to go through them at the time.
Blessings Always In Christ Alone,
Larry