What I Learned when I Taught my Church About Heresies
It started with Pelagius. At least, that’s how it started at our church last Fall when on a Sunday morning I overheard one congregant saying to another, “God will throw you the life preserver, but you need to grab it.” Perhaps I should have stepped in right then and there, but I was on my way to chat with someone who I knew was hurting. Heresies are not killed, only recast in a modern light. As I walked by, I thought of R.C. Sproul’s message The Pelagian Captivity of the Church[1] (the title playing off of Luther’s famous little book,...