Friday 1 May 2009

EVANGELICALS

'Why is it, I wonder, that in our circles whenever anybody gets an interesting idea, if produces a party that makes it a test of orthodoxy, leading to another party that opposes it, and then to battles between these two parties in the churches? Why can't those who think they have new insights quietly teach them to others while embracing them as brothers and sisters in Christ? If some "don't get it," why should that amount to heresy? Why not simply permit both views to be taught until the Spirit convinces God's people generally that one view is scriptural and the other is not?'
John Frame, The Doctrine of the Christian Life, p.296.