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( This is excellent! – JT )
Why did God use George Whitefield? Why was he so used of the Lord? Steve Lawson talks about this and also gives many testimonies from Whitefield’s life.
Great,thanks!! I will be watching this later.Blessings in Christ.
George Whitfield is one of those larger than life characters who has inspired generations of God’s people,I look forward to watching this …and thanks for the post
This is one of the most inspirational messages I have honestly listened to, and thank you dearly for sharing it. I have also passed it on through my own sites, and would like to categorically state that the desire I have to commit my life to the service of the Gospel of Christ is greater indeed after hearing this message.
God bless you,
John
Again I must say the rap lovers who claim they are “just as much a Christian as the rest of us” are very conspicuous in their absence from posts like this one. Bring on some hard truth about loving God and putting self aside to serve God and they are gone like potato salad at a picnic.
I have long noticed this about arm raisers and hand waivers. As long as ear-tickling music or rap junk is playing, they are ‘praising JC’ but bring on some substantive sermon about God and his people and they are long gone…
More to the topic of the post — I will go on the record as saying that the largest audience in need of the message of the Gospel today are Amercians who sit in church each week! I fear revival is out of the question…you cannot revive what is not alive to begin with. I pray God will send another awakening. Would Jonathan Edwards sit on the front row and weep under conviction because of the powerful preaching of Rick Warren or Rob Bell? I withdraw the question… (Actually, he might weep due to the lack of substance and the lack of truth in most preaching today)
Amen Truthy, twice!
I do not wish to make a huge argument. With that being said. I really enjoy Christian rap, though do not believe it to be worship. And I praised God for this sermon. I am glad you are zealous for something, but please be careful to not lump us all in the same boat. Many of the brothers I am around that enjoy Christian Rap, also spend a lot of time in puritan novels or other deep theological works from the reformers. With a defense of our fellow brothers and myself being made.
I agree with your statement on the gospel needs to be heard in churches more than anywhere else. And especially with us fellow laymen(assuming you are as I a layman, my apologies if not) bringing it to members on a one to one basis. Even people who sit under good preaching or go through good catechesis, do not have their eyes opened until they see the gospel in the lives of men, or hear it confront there personal issues with it.
Forgive me for interrupting, but what does this comment have to do with Steve Lawson and George Whitefield?
As I said I really don’t want to start an argument. I was simply stating that I praised God for this sermon, and since Truthinator made a few extra remarks I responded in agreement with one and in defense of my brothers on the others. It was mentioned that those who enjoy Christian rap do not post on these. So I posted. I honestly did not think my comments were any further from the topic than the things that you gave a double amen to brother.
I recently read a 2 volume biography of Whitefield. What a wonderful testimony of God’s providence! I shall listen to Mr. Lawson’s message and can imagine the main point
Truthy – My experience is that it’s not specifically the rap lovers who dodge Truth. It is, as you’ve said, the condition of many (most?) churches that Truth is (at best) soft peddled and people become inoculated against the Sovereignty of God and allergic to Truth. Semi-Arminian dispensationalist theology tends to be man-centered and God hateful.
I agree with your comment about the semi-Arminian man-centrists. That is my point exactly.
The rap lovers I was referring to are some of the ones who were most vocal in the rap post JT did a while back. Not necessisarily all people who enjoy the rap format. The format is just another mode of creative expression. It’s the gangster thug lifestyle and mentality that cannot be defended in either the Christian or the secular…
They were very vocal in trying to justify their love of the flesh but their names never seem to show up in posts where doctrine is discussed… that is what I meant by being conspicuous by their absence.
I agree about Lawson’s messages. They are great. They elevate God and His sovereignty not man and his craftiness and ego-absorbed sense of purpose.
“All men are born Arminian; they are born again as Calvinists.” Amen!
Lawson’s message tracts very closely to the biography I read. Excellent.