Let’s just pretend for a moment you did not read the title of this blogpost. Let’s pretend that there was an anonymous Christian minister who explicitly affirmed the following:
I am passionate about the glory of God above all things.
I believe in the absolute sovereignty of God in all things, including sin and tragedy.
I believe in exhaustive, meticulous divine providence.
I believe in the doctrines of grace, including total depravity, unconditional election, and particular redemption.
I affirm the five solas of the reformation and consider myself a monergist both in justification and sanctification of the believer.
I believe in the eternal, conscious torment in a literal hell.
I believe that substitutionary atonement is at the heart of the gospel.
I believe in that the imputed righteousness of Christ is essential to the nature of the gospel.
I believe that God saves us from Himself by sending us His Son as the wrath-bearing propitiation in my place.
I believe the Bible is the inerrant Word of God.
I believe that those who die never hearing the name of Christ will not go to heaven. They need to hear the gospel, and the church must go to them and make Christ known in order for them to be saved.
Everything I do in life and ministry has an overarching missionary focus.
Having considered these personal beliefs and affirmations, what well-known evangelical preacher might we be talking about? John MacArthur? Sounds a lot like him. Albert Mohler? Possibly. D.A. Carson? Perhaps. Keep Reading...
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