Confidence in God and the word he has given us

Posted on February 20, 2014 
Filed under Theology

Dr Mark Thompson“In the last few days Steve Chalke has done it again.

The 58 year old Baptist minister who pastors the Oasis Church in London is no stranger to controversy. He ignited a debate about penal substitution with his book (co-authored with Alan Mann), The Lost Message of Jesus in 2004. That book provoked a series of responses, the most substantial being Pierced for our Transgressions, edited by, amongst others, Dr Mike Ovey, the redoubtable Principal of Oak Hill College London. Then around this time last year, Chalke published in support of monogamous homosexual relationships with a two part article on ‘The Bible and Homosexuality’.

Now he has published an article questioning the truthfulness of everything in the Bible…”

– Moore College Principal Mark Thompson looks at Steve Chalke’s latest foray into controversy.