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This is an excerpt from Christian Maturity – Part 4 by Tim Conway.
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Gaze Upon Christ, Not The Law
31 Sunday Jul 2011
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Wow!…angry man preaching if I ever heard it. Doctrinally he is all over the place by freeing you from the law and then placing you back under it in a different way. As soon as he said to imitate Christ I knew he was way off. The christian life is not an imitation, but a participation…not a changed life, but an exchanged life. He was so angry he even got the baby to cry. His brand of teaching will lead to self-righteousness…There is only one christian life and that is Jesus…Listener beware!
I mostly agree with Rev Joseph. I have found Mr. Conway to meander around and contradict himself. I think he exerts passionate speak to cover his inconsistencies. He means well for sure but that is not enough. The exchanged life is the only way to live (see New Testament). There is an excellent book called What God Wishes Christians Knew About Christianity by Bill Gillham. The title is tongue-in-cheek so don’t let that throw you. He runs paralell to Lewis Sperry Chafer much of the way through. It is a great work on the exchanged life. Thanks.
I tend to agree with the two comments above, though I am inclined to think Mr. Conway’s contradictions are minor and demonstrate a lack of clarity in speaking more than actual deep doctrinal inconsistency. I have watched Mr. Conway’s videos now and again, perhaps 20 or so and found some of them edifying and instructive, though a few much less so. I have also had Mr. Conway into my home, though 15 minutes into the visit he declared me lost. Not “perhaps lost,” but “utterly lost,” and that with metaphysical certainty In truth, I think I was insufficiently defferential to him personally, a quality (deference to him) I think he tends to view as an indicator of a genuine salvific experience. My own observation is that Mr. Conway has a tendency towards a form of Sheltonism. I know many of the people in his church, and a number of them got “saved” again under Mr. Conway’s auspices. I suppose Mr. Conway is an acquired taste.