If God is a good God…

From Ligonier's Tabletalk, June 2006:

Having been confronted by our own guilt and shame before our holy and righteous Lord, we should realize the foolishness of the commonly uttered assertion: "If God is a good God, He would not allow so much evil to exist." Instead, we would begin to ask the more appropriate question: "If God is a just God, why doesn't more evil exist?"

Burk Parsons

White Horse Inn 5-7-06: Imputation

Once again, the 2006 National Pastors Convention has provided further evidence of rank maleducation among evangelical leadership in this country. The most recent edition of The White Horse Inn contains a clip of their producer interviewing attendants of the Convention. He asked the question, "How important to your ministry is the doctrine of imputation?".

The results:

• 33% were familiar with the concept
• 67% were unfamiliar with the very term (and therefore couldn't begin to answer the original question.

My favorite response was, "Amputation?…ah, imputation. Could you explain what you mean by that?".

One respondent said with regard to the congregation he works with, "…if you asked them to explain what made a difference in their life, it would have nothing to do with that…"

Resources

Check out any number of the links at www.monergism.com OR this link to a sermon by John Piper about imputation.