Albert Mohler again addresses Brigham Young University

I wonder if the gain is a Gospel hearing. If I were invited to BYU (I know, pretty silly statement), I would delight in the opportunity to unashamedly proclaim the gospel and view it as gain for the kingdom of God. That is not to say context never matters, yet BYU is an academic institution that has a variety of academic speakers there. It is not primarily a religious education school, not all of its students are Mormon. I view his speaking there as nearly identical to any other private academic, religious based institution.

Larry,

The leadership forum is not a religious event per se. Inviting Mohler would have given the impression that it was.

I don’t know what motivated Dr. Mohler to speak at BYU, but I am delighted that Mohler was pointed in his remarks on salvation and the Bible in the bastion of Mormonism (Latter Day Saintism?):

But as I come among you, and I as am honored by this opportunity to address you, I come as a friend among friends to speak as who I am and of what I believe. As a Christian, my ultimate confidence does not rest in marriage, or the family, or civil society, or human rights, or any human affirmation of human dignity, not matter how robust.

My confidence is in the Lord, the unchanging God of the Bible, who revealed himself in the Bible and who redeems sinners through the atonement accomplished by his Son, Jesus Christ, who was both fully human and fully divine. My confidence is in the Gospel revealed by Christ and preached by the Apostles — the Gospel of salvation by faith alone in Christ alone. I believe in the saving acts of Christ in his death, burial, and bodily resurrection from the grave. I believe that the Bible is our sufficient written revelation, inerrant and infallible and unchanging. I believe that God’s promise of salvation will be fulfilled and that all he has promised in Christ will be given. I believe in the truth unchanged and unchanging, because I believe in the God who tells us in the Bible that he never changes.

I can close my eyes at night and I can open them to face each day because I know that my Redeemer lives, and that history is in the hands of the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I know that I, along with all who come to him by faith, are safe in Christ. I can trust that he, as the Apostle Paul stated so famously, will be faithful to the end.

Good for Mohler. Who else will get these kinds of invitations - and is able - to preach the Gospel in the stronghold of false teaching? Methinks fundamentalists gripe too much.

Whatever happened to Philippians 1:12-18?

I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel, so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ. And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. The latter do it out of love,knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. The former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment. What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice.

[Mike Harding]

Larry,

The leadership forum is not a religious event per se. Inviting Mohler would have given the impression that it was.

So what you are saying is that, under certain circumstances, it is actually preferable to invite a non-believer to address the college, rather than a believer?

Jay, that is a good post, and well said.