GOSPEL DELTA

Distortion by Omission

// March 12th, 2010 // Doctrine

“If you set it as your theological agenda to never preach the unpopular or controversial doctrines of the Christian faith, you will almost certainly omit things essential to the Gospel. Not that you don’t believe them, but it is all too easy to omit them. Virtually all important doctrines have been disputed from within the church. (Not from without, but from within the church.) If you make it an effort to only deal with matters about which there is no dispute within the global church, you run the risk of omitting very important things. We should have been warned about this, because in the New Testament letters, the way Paul in particular articulates and defends the truth of the Gospel is not by arguing with people outside the church, but by arguing with people inside the church. Virtually all of the New Testament letters come clear to us through intra-church disputation. And therefore if you try to set your agenda as a pastor to only preach those doctrines that are not controverted, you will not be preaching the Gospel at all.”

- John Piper