Snoeberger on sanctification, take two: "God regenerated us so that we are no longer totally depraved."
Aaron,
The reason I avoid the “nature” language is because something that is part of my nature is unavoidable. Yet, scripture is clear that as a new creature I am no longer enslaved to sin. While I do and will continue to struggle with sin, I never am in a place where I cannot help sinning.
Why is it that my voice always seems to be loudest when I am saying the dumbest things?
Chip: agree with all that. I was just trying to think “what language do I use?” I can’t think of any time in recent memory that “old nature” was in my pulpit language. Mostly I talk about sin and God’s agenda to make us new and what He uses to do it.
Came across this at CT… Yes Holiness Does Require Effort. K. DeYoung responds to Galli, who seems to hold to some kind of let-go-let-Godism.
(Note to self: read more DeYoung… boy can he turn a phrase.)
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.
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