Timothy Baird

Teaching Pastor at Saint’s Rest Reformed Church

[Paramount Church @ParamountChurch]

Matthew Payne’s summary article provides an important corrective to the modern “tests of life” reading of 1 John:

“1 John is for Assurance, not Testing”
https://t.co/GedYCqfsTs

For Payne’s fuller academic treatment, see: Matthew Payne, “Post-Crisis Assurance and the ‘Tests of Life’ Reading of 1 John,” Reformed Theological Review 80, no. 2 (2021): 133–154.

The central issue in 1 John is not endless introspective self-testing, but the apostolic proclamation of the resurrected incarnate Christ (1 John 1:1–3) in the aftermath of a first-century secession crisis by a group of first-century Jews who departed from the fellowship because they denied that Jesus is the Christ (2:18–23). John writes to assure believers who remain in the apostolic confession that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God (5:13), not to drive tender consciences into perpetual uncertainty.

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Those who believe, teach and confess Lordship Salvation often claim they believe in the Reformation distinction between law and gospel.

Yet many of them endorse and promote the teaching of The Gospel According to Jesus, a book that repeatedly confuses law and gospel by turning the gospel into a demand for obedience and surrender, which is precisely the confusion the Reformers rejected when they taught justification by faith alone and grace alone.

The gospel is an announcement of Christ's finished work received by faith alone. You can't claim the distinction while endorsing a book that collapses it.

@RScottClark has written a careful and responsible critique showing that this book repeatedly turns the gospel into a demand for obedience and surrender.

Read his 25-part series here: https://t.co/o1UdA7fJaQ

[Grace Reformed Network @GraceRefNet]

In the interest of clarity, the pastors of the Grace Reformed Network are working on an additional statement pertaining to Jon Moffitt’s resignation and the doctrinal issues surrounding it. This statement will be released upon completion and our collective affirmation of it.

[Timothy Baird @TimothyPBaird]

@scottyjake22 @RScottClark I would invite you to examine the way you just used your words to characterize others. Unless you don’t want to change, that is.

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@scottyjake22 @RScottClark Congrats on achieving righteousness in sexual purity. Now do reviling.

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[Timothy Baird @TimothyPBaird]

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@Logos Do a careful study on the way the NT authors use the Psalms... 🧐😳🤯

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