By Aaron Blumer
May
05
2022
"Piper’s most recent book, What Is Saving Faith?: Reflections on Receiving Christ as a Treasure.... Piper argues for his 'affectional' understanding of saving faith.... treasuring Christ is an affectional 'act of faith,' not in the sense of an action that results from faith, but as one of the 'actings that constitute what faith is.'" - TGC
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I've always believed the "whole person" is involved in turning from sin to Christ. It does seem perilous to isolate one piece of that and strongly emphasize it--or, worse, make it into the whole. I don't know if the latter is Piper's intent, but it may be how the idea filters down and takes shape where people are preaching and teaching and evangelizing. (For what it's worth, I see a similar part-whole problem in Desiring God. Authors often get so excited about one compelling idea that they start to move all the furniture around to make it the center of everything... when it's really just one of multiple important realities.)
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