Bishop Jones’ Exegesis: from here to wherever
The great thing about the knight in the game of chess is that it can jump intervening squares and pieces to get from one location to another. This is what gives the knight its attacking power. I think it was Anthony Hoekema, however, who coined the phrase ‘knight’s jump exegesis’ to describe the way some people jump from one part of the Bible to another to ‘prove’ their point.
Hoekema argued that Jehovah’s Witnesses do this with regard to, for example, the date of Christ’s return (somewhat overdue by now, on their reckoning). Unfortunately, as was reported in today’s Guardian newspaper, something like this has now also been done by the Rt Revd James Jones, the Bishop of Liverpool…
Read John Richardson’s analysis in The Ugley Vicar.
The Pastor’s Understanding of His Own Role
Watch this challenging message for preachers, from Mark Dever at the 2006 Together for the Gospel Conference in Louisville, Kentucky.
“Basing his message on 1 Corinthians, Mark Dever discusses the three marks of a faithful pastor. Such a pastor has a cross-centred message, a cross-centred life, and cross-centred followers.”
Video available from Ligonier Ministries. (Broadband recommended. Duration: 56 minutes.)
Other helpful audio and video archive material may be found here.
Concerns over abortion paper
Concerns have been raised by some Melbourne Anglicans over a submission made to the Victorian Law Reform Commission on reform of the state’s abortion laws.
A think tank of eight women, by invitation from Archbishop Freier, made the submission in December. …
The Revd Tim Patrick, Associate Priest at St Jude’s Carlton, has sent a letter to parishes seeking signatories for a petition protesting against the submission. …
From this month’s The Melbourne Anglican. (The Submission is available here.)
Food for thought
“…even assuming that there will be a remnant of Evangelicals at Lambeth … the 70% who will be there represent a MINORITY of Anglicans worldwide, while the 30% of bishops attending GAFCON represent 70% or more…”
From a Viewpoint article by Anglican journalist David Virtue.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…