Cross Defense: we’re firing up your theological imagination with the comfort of the Gospel and the wisdom of God’s Law.
In the first part of today’s episode, Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller talks about how most people read the Bible the wrong way like it’s an instruction book, and the two major doctrines in the Bible. Rev. Warren Graff joins in to talk about social credit score, how rating morality and virtue could affect a person’s entire life, how the law from government differs from the law given from God, and the theological framework needed to critique this concept.
Guest Rev. Warren Graff from Grace Lutheran Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, joins host Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller, Senior Pastor at Hope Lutheran Church in Aurora, Colorado, and author of the book Has American Christianity Failed?, to talk about curious topics to excite the imagination, equip the mind, and comfort the soul with God’s ordering of the world in the Law and Gospel. Tweet your questions to @bwolfmueller or send questions at wolfmueller.co.
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Sorry Boys,
That is a pretty weak argument against government and the implications of the teachings of Jesus and New Testament. I think we need to be more concerned with the almost 1,500+ scriptures which command us to take care of the poor and how we handle money etc. and the 13th of Romans has to be twisted to be misunderstood.
“Some people nowadays say that charity ought to be unnecessary and that instead of giving to the poor we ought to be producing a society in which there were no poor to give to. They may be quite right in saying that we ought to produce that kind of society.”
“The Christian’s whole efforts in politics and economics should be directed to putting “Do as you would be done by” (doing unto others) into action. If that happened, and if we others were really ready to take it, then we should find the Christian solution for our own social problems pretty quickly. That is just what one would expect if Christianity is the total plan for the human machine. We have all departed from that total plan in different ways, and each of us wants to make out that his own modification of the original plan is the plan itself. You will find this again and again about anything that is really Christian: everyone is attracted by bits of it and wants to pick out those bits and leave the rest. That is why we do not get much further: and that is why people who are fighting for quite opposite things can both say they are fighting for Christianity.” C. S. Lewis
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 2 Tim. 3:16
Blessed is the man [whose] delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night. Ps. 1:1-2
Similar messages in Joshua 1:8, Ps. 112:1, 119:15, 16, 97; Mt. 28:20.
Legalism says, “Do this or else.” Loving istruction says, “Do this to be blessed (John 13:17) and fruitful, etc.” Relying on works of the law trying to prove oneself to God is wrong (Gal. 3:10), but gratefully seeking instruction to fulfill the purposes for which God has shown us mercy (Eph. 2:10) is good.