The Truth War (32 page)

C
HAPTER
6

T
HE
E
VIL OF
F
ALSE
T
EACHING
: H
OW
E
RROR
T
URNS
G
RACE INTO
L
ICENTIOUSNESS

1
. Jonathan Edwards, “God's Sovereignty in the Salvation of Men,” in
The Works of Jonathan Edwards
, 2 vols. (Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1995 reprint), 2:849–54.

2
. Laura Sheahan, “‘Evangelical Christianity Has Been Hijacked': An Interview with Tony Campolo,” Beliefnet.com Website (July 2004), http:beliefnet.com/story/150/story_15052_ 1.html.

3
. Brian McLaren, “Brian McLaren on the Homosexual Question: Finding a Pastoral Response,” January 23, 2006. This was a post made at the “Out of Ur” blog hosted by
Christianity
Today
, http://blog.christianitytoday.com/outofur/archives/2006/01 /brian_mclaren_o.html.

4
. Donald Miller,
Blue Like Jazz
(Nashville: Nelson, 2003), 133–34.

5
. Lori Leibovich, “Generation: A Look Inside Fundamentalism's Answer to MTV: The Postmodern Church,”
Mother
Jones
(July–August 1998), 77.

6
. Ruth Gledhill, “Church Told to Rethink Bar on Sex Before Marriage,”
Times of London
(March 31, 2003).

C
HAPTER
7

T
HE
A
SSAULT ON
D
IVINE
A
UTHORITY
:
C
HRIST
'
S
L
ORDSHIP
D
ENIED

1
. Rick Warren,
The Purpose-Driven Church
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995), 189.

2
. John MacArthur,
The Gospel According to Jesus
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1988);
The Gospel According to the Apostles
(Nashville: W Publishing Group, 1993);
Hard to Believe
(Nashville: Nelson, 2003).

3
. Brian McLaren,
A New Kind of Christian
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003), 14.

4
. Brian McLaren,
A Generous Orthodoxy
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004), 30.

5
. “We have never been able to find any text in ancient Greek literature that gives support to [the egalitarian] interpretation. Wherever one person is said to be the ‘head' of another person (or persons), the person who is called the ‘head' is always the one in authority (such as the general of an army, the Roman emperor, Christ, the heads of the tribes of Israel, David as head of the nations, etc.) Specifically, we cannot find any text where person A is called the ‘head' of person or persons B,
and is not in a position
of authority over that person or persons.
So we find no evidence for your claim that ‘head' can mean ‘source without authority.'” Wayne Grudem, “An Open Letter to Egalitarians: Six Questions That Have Never Been Answered” (1998, revised 2003), http://www.the-highway.com/Openletter.html.

6
. John Calvin,
Calvin's Commentaries
, 22 vols. (Grand Rapids: Baker, n.d.), 21:198.

C
HAPTER
8

H
OW TO
S
URVIVE IN AN
A
GE OF
A
POSTASY
: L
EARNING FROM THE
L
ESSONS OF
H
ISTORY

1
. Steve Chalke,
The Lost Message of Jesus
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003), 182.

2
. Brian McLaren,
The Story We Find Ourselves In
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003), 102.

3
. Charlotte Allen, “Liberal Christianity Is Paying for Its Sins,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 9, 2006.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Associated Press, “Presbyterians Vote on Alternatives to Divine Trinity,” June 19, 2006.

6
. Episcopal News Service, “From Columbus: Text of Presiding Bishop-elect's June 21 homily,” June 21, 2006.

7
. Jerry L Van Marter, “GAC Releases names of those laid off,” PresbyterianNewsService,http://www.pcusa.org/pcnews/2006/ 06245.htm (accessed) December 5, 2006

8
. John MacArthur,
Ashamed of the Gospel: When the Church
Becomes Like the World
(Wheaton: Crossway, 1993).

A
PPENDIX

1
. Material in this appendix is adapted from John MacArthur,
Reckless Faith
(Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1994), 35–66. That book dealt mainly with several matters that were especially timely in the early 1990s, including the hysteria surrounding the “Toronto Blessing” and intense pressure to gain widespread evangelical support for the original “Evangelicals and Catholics Together” document.

2. Cited in Iain Murray,
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The Fight of
Faith, 1939–1981
(Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1990), 667.

3
. D. Martyn Lloyd Jones,
Preaching and Preachers
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1971), 15–16.

4
. Tom Allen, “Postmoderns Value Authenticity, Not Authority,”
The Baptist Standard
, July 8, 2004.

5
. Ibid.

6
. D. Martyn LloydJones,
Romans: An Exposition of Chapters
3.20–4.25: Atonement and Justification
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1970), 113.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Ibid., 113–14.

9
. Ibid., 114.

10
. Jay E. Adams,
A Call to Discernment
(Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1987), 31.

11
. Ibid.

12
. Ibid., 29.

13
. Ibid., 32.

14
. Charles H. Spurgeon,
Autobiography, Volume 1: The Early
Years
(Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1962), v (emphasis added).

15
. B.B. Warfield,
Biblical and Theological Studies
(Philadelphia: Presbyterian & Reformed, 1952), 22.

16
. Bernard Ramm,
Protestant Biblical Interpretation
(Grand Rapids: Baker, 1970), 17–18.

17
. Chris Seay,
Faith of My Fathers
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005), 133–38.

18
. John Hall, “Ecclesia: Purposely Postmodern,”
Baptist
Standard
(October 8, 2001), 1.

19
. Adams,
A Call to Discernment
, 28.

20
. Ibid., 27.

21
. “What Happens When Christians Use Bad Language” (February 21, 1994, news release from the Barna Research Group, Ltd.).