Mechan on Christian Scholarship

Another fine argument, though lengthy, from J. Gresham Mechan.

Continuing our mission to get Christians to think about Christ, instead of, as CS Lewis says in The Screwtape Letters, the Gospel and....  He meant that we always want to add something of ourselves to the Gospel.  The problem of his day, Protestant Liberalism, is the problem of our day in the form of Liberalism in the Evangelical and Pentecostal world.  The shame is that the path to atheism that the Protestant Liberals took and about which they are now warning the Evangelicals, is the same path the Evangelicals and Pentecostals are Hell bent to follow.

CS Lewis also said that there would be a lot of surprises on Judgment Day, both ways.  That is our greatest fear for the Church in America.  Even Evangelicals are starting to see the problem, but they lack the direction to alter the course.  Fortunately, the confessional churches have written this stuff down for us and organized Biblical thought to assist in righting the ship, resetting the path.  It is up to us to keep hauling on the sheets until we can turn the sails and take the church on the proper tack.

And so here is another lengthy argument from Mechan concerning Christian scholarship.  It was said in a comment to me in the past concerning Mechan, from Mechan's biographical notes on my own link to the right, that Mechan was thrown out of his own denomination.  The rest of the story is that his own denomination had become infested by Liberalism.  The Liberals did through him out, at least from his position at his seminary.  He and others founded a confessional church based upon the Presbyterian tradition of good Biblical scholarship that had been abandoned by the Liberals.  Luther was excommunicated by Rome, as were all of the sixteenth century Reformers.  A Modern Reformation is what is so desperately needed today.  

That is why Ogre sounds so offensive to some ears.  The Gospel is offensive.  It is from outside of us.  It tells us that the Law sets a standard before us that is not of our making.  Worse, it tells us that the Law sets a standard before us that we can never attain.  Without understanding of the absolute desperation of our plight, there is no understanding of the absolutely Amazing Grace that we received as a gift.  The Gospel is not about us.  The Gospel is about Jesus and what He did for His people.

--Ogre--