Let’s swap bank accounts

Prodigal Son“I once heard the following illustration from one of the finest preachers in Wales:

Two brothers were talking one day. One of them had made a great success of his business career and had amassed a fortune. The other brother had made one bad decision after another and in the end racked up debts that he had no way of paying for. …”

– A useful sermon illustration at Martin Downes’ Against Heresies.

Whither Evangelicalism?

Phil Johnson“… I’d be inclined to say that the singular characteristic that stands out most among contemporary evangelicals is their distaste for drawing any clear lines between truth and error. They don’t like to handle doctrine in a polemical fashion. They especially don’t want to be thought “negative” when it comes to declaring their doctrinal convictions. …

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones saw this trend coming and warned against it. In 1971, during a visit to Australia, he gave a series of lectures that were compiled and published as a booklet, ‘What Is an Evangelical?’ If you haven’t read it, you should. …”

Phil Johnson writes of evangelicalism in North America. Is Australia far behind?