First the low down, then a few statements, and then a lot of questions.
About two weeks ago Jen Wilkin wrote a piece called “Failure Is Not a Virtue”
in which she registered her concern over celebratory failurisum–”the
idea that believers cannot obey the Law and will fail at every attempt.”
I thought her post was right to expose one of the possible errors
in talking about sanctification, especially when some in the Reformed
community have suggested that trying to help people stop sinning is a
waste of time akin to teaching frogs how to fly.
In response,
Tullian Tchividjian accused Jen of “theological muddiness,” saying that
while failure is not a virtue, acknowledging failure most definitely
is. After that, Michael Kruger jumped in,
arguing that Tullian’s response failed to distinguish between the
second and third use of the law. Then Mark Jones, whose excellent book
on Antinomianism I commended here and here, came down on the side of Jen and offered to fly to Florida to debate law and gospel with Tullian, his fellow PCA pastor. Carl Trueman seconded the idea, and Jared Oliphint weighed in with a fine piece on the relationship between law and gospel in Reformed theology. Continue at Kevin DeYoung
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