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Destruction Therapy, the Cooperative Program and the Southern Baptist Convention by Peter Lumpkins

About a year or so ago, Fox News ran a story on a therapeutic phenomenon known as Destruction Therapy (//link). The therapeutic idea is both primitive and simple:  "fix" yourself by freely destroying something else (//link). 

Of interest to me is the possible parallel between the proposed method Destruction Therapy therapists advocate for securing psychological health and some Southern Baptist leaders who advocate similar measures to "fix" the Southern Baptist Convention.

Below is a flick which captures perfectly what some seem to want for the Southern Baptist Convention.

With that, I am...

Peter

How Infathomable the Humanity of Christ: Mark Driscoll vs. G. C. Berkouwer

  As I read Scripture, I'm struck with the profundity with which God's revelatory Word unfolds the Eternal Word made human flesh.

Below are two quotes.  You be the judge as to which snippet solicits from your spirit awe and wonder concerning God's Savior in Jesus Christ.

• "The point in all this is, had we seen Jesus as a man, we would have seen a normal guy carrying his lunch box in one hand and a tool box in the other heading off to work.  He did normal things that actual people do like farting, going to the bathroom, and blowing boogers from his nose" (Mark Driscoll & Gerry Breshears, Vintage Jesus, Crossway, 2007, p.32)

• "For in any number of passages, Scripture speaks of Jesus Christ as truly God and truly man. He is one of us, like us in all things, our brother, sharing our flesh and our blood. He did not come as a heavenly ambassador to frighten us with his surpassing divine power or, in spectral form, to bring us a message from heavenly realms. No, he entered into the reality of our world and life, having assumed the form of a servant. Repeatedly our attention is called to this fact, not in order that “man” be somehow honored for redemption, but in order that we should honor the way in which God redeemed the world" (G. C. Berkouwer, The Person of Christ, Eerdmans, 1954, p.224).

With that, I am...

Peter 

Baptist Calvinism is Exclusively Five Point Calvinism: Or is it? by Peter Lumpkins

     A fundamental truism concerning Calvinism among Founders Ministries advocates is, real Calvinism is definitively five-point Calvinism.  Indeed their view many times reduces to "One may be Calvinistic in his or her theology and not hold to five-point Calvinism, but one is not a genuine Calvinist who does not specifically hold to five-point Calvinism."

Agreed: Have a Fun Week by Peter Lumpkins

Let's have some fun this week, shall we?

With that, I am...

Peter

Postscript to Myth-Busting: A Tribute by Peter Lumpkins

Since busting myths now possesses, as its capable, indisputable apologetic, the scholarly handling of "water-cooler talk" as definitive evidence for justifying that "myths" people believe exist, the study of history, philosophy, law and especially theology will never remain quite the same (//link). 

In that light, I offer the following in tribute toward this most recent and highly valued achievement.

With that, I am...

Peter