"Live for me. I died for
you."Wretched. Vile. Wrong.
This kind of guilt-trip Christianity is poisonous. It's poisonous because it teaches that God gave you Christ not out of His own Fatherly love, but because He just wanted your obedience. And it's poisonous because it teaches that what Jesus won on the cross was not your full salvation, but merely the opportunity to win salvation for yourself through your own works.
Leave it to the Evangelicals to combine the worst of Geneva and Rome in six words and to think that they're somehow doing the Lord's work in the process.
Thank God for Lutheranism. Thank God for faithful preaching and faithful preachers. Thank God for His Gospel. And thank God this billboard ain't it!
-Pr. Hans Fiene from a Facebook posting
The only caveat that I would like to add to this critique of the billboard, and that he is thankful for the Gospel:
ReplyDeleteWhile I have found my home in Lutheranism, and am extremely thankful for it, I would not daresay (nor do I think Pr. Fiene is saying this eithr) that Lutheranism has the monopoly on the Gospel. As Chaplain Mike from the InternetMonk.com website has stated before: "“I am a Christian, and I practice my faith in the Lutheran tradition.” I have found that the Lutheran tradition addresses the distinction of Law and Gospel in an extremly faithful manner.
That being said, I want to reiterate that with this post am I saying Lutheranism is the only true place to find the Gospel. I have found it there, and have found my home there.
Where was it located?
ReplyDeleteNot sure, Ron... This was originally posted FB.
ReplyDeleteAnytime you can get people to think about Christ is a good thing. He did die, so that people can live forever, and yes they should live for Him. Millions of people if not billions have seen this billboard and if God uses it to speak to just one person it was worth it.
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