Imperatives are for Preaching...

Now that Kevin DeYoung has weighed in quite effectively on the most recent flap over the justification/sanctification debate I suppose any words from me would be superfluous. However, I am a preacher so silence is not an option. But given DeYoung's excellent post I have greatly altered what I had originally written.

Like many others, I was thankful for Jen Wilkin's recent post over at TGC entitled "Failure Is Not a Virtue." She expresses appropriate concern over what she calls "celebratory failurism" - the tendency to excuse our sins by casting them as means by which we experience more grace. Tullian Tchividjian fired back with a strongly worded response accusing Wilkin of muddy theology and confusing theological categories. Dr. Michael Kruger responded with understandable dismay given the fact that Pastor Tchividjian never actually responds to Wilkin's article and even accuses her of assertions she did not make. To Dr. Kruger's response (are you following this?) Pastor Tchividjian did not yield the point but dug in by asserting that he knows of no one guilty of "celebratory failurism." I actually have seen quite a bit of it. Jared Oliphint effectively pushes back on Pastor Tchividjian's objection. But I digress.   Continue at Todd Pruitt