The last week or so has seen renewed calls
for reflection and responsibility on the part of Tullian Tchividjian in
responding to critiques in the debate on sanctification. His most recent post
on the Gospel Coalition website indicates that he is instead digging in
his heels, employing his law-gospel cookie cutter with ever more
reckless abandon. As Michael Kruger recently
pointed out, Tullian shows no signs of paying attention to careful and
charitable criticism from those interacting with him. Yesterday's
exposition of 1 John 5:3-4 indicates that Tullian is not listening even to the text of the Bible which he is handling.
Yesterday's post from Tullian, titled
Unburdened, takes on the apostle John's statement that God's
"commandments are not burdensome" (1 John 5:3).
Predictably enough, Tullian insists that the reason for this blessed
condition is that the Christian does not do the commandments of God but
Jesus Christ bears this burden for us. At this point, we know to expect
the automatic and context-ignoring download of Christ's wonderful
fulfillment of the law for believers in justification. To wit, Tullian
explains: "Though the commandments are indeed burdensome, that burden
has been laid on the shoulders of another. Jesus Christ, who demands
that we be perfect, achieves perfection in our place... God's
commandments are not burdensome because we do not carry them." Continue at Rick Phillips
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