Reformed is (Not) Enough

Sons of Patriarchy

Peter Bell & Sarah Bader

Religion & Spirituality

4.2 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Join Dr. R. Scott Clark and I as we discuss Federal Vision, it's various off-shoots and internecine debates, amber ale and oatmeal stout "versions," engage with clips from Douglas Wilson, Richard Lusk (among other CREC ministers who have blocked us), and look at the original statements and lectures from Auburn Avenue in 2002.

This is our most theologically dense episode of the series. It's a beatdown of "Federal Vision," a works-based Christianity. We end by describing how this system of doctrine necessarily leads to abuse and obedience that is "cloaked" in submission.

Let's make the gospel scandalous, not scandalized. That which leads to human flourishing, not fear.

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0:00.0	If no one is around to handle a gun, the gun does nothing. It lays dormant. But the moment it is wielded, it serves a purpose. This purpose comes in multiple forms. Recreation, protection, ill-attent, among others. But there's also power. If you've got a gun and someone else doesn't, you feel a little more
0:22.8	safe, a little more in control. But if the tables are turned, you're vulnerable, you're at the
0:30.5	whim of your opponent. In a way, theology is the same. Theology can and should be used for the
0:37.3	glory of God and the good of his
0:39.4	image bearers, you and I. Wealded by ordained and called ministers, it can be a tremendous blessing,
0:45.8	leading to life evermore, security in Jesus and purpose. It's aimed to build up, not destroy.
0:53.0	Theology displays the glories of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, ever three, and ever one.
1:00.0	Theology describes our sin and misery what we have plunged ourselves into and failed to do, and prescribes the remedy, the work of the Son.
1:09.2	Right theology in the right hands usually leads to flourishing both
1:12.6	in famine and in feast. But theology in the hands of those whose idea of glory is cloaked in victory
1:19.5	over their enemies will use it towards their ends. Theology will then fasten a silencer,
1:26.0	and when it fires, it's barely noticeable, but the results are the same.
1:30.7	The unraveling of a life and the power of the one who wields it.
1:35.2	It's being coy about what you believe, and using that to mold theology into the image of your utopia,
1:42.3	and leaving the vulnerable in the dark and untold carnage in your wake.
1:47.6	Theology both is and does.
1:51.0	Theology is a system of doctrine, a way of describing God who he is, what he's done, and the unfolding of his acts for the redemption of his people.
2:00.8	It rightly describes you and I in relation to God and in relation to God. and the unfolding of his acts for the redemption of his people.
2:05.8	It rightly describes you and I in relation to God and in relation to one another.
2:11.5	It describes who we were created to be and created as, how we've fallen,
2:16.9	and how God has redeemed you and I from death and destruction from hell and Hades,
2:19.3	but also from a meaningless and directionless life. It answers the questions, who am I? What is my purpose? What is the meaning
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