Bright Spot Alert: Jay Adams Returns to the Pulpit
“Jay Adams will go down in church history as the founder of the most significant discipleship movement to ever occur in Western culture.”
Last week, the father of the competent discipleship movement returned to the pulpit in an amazing display of God’s goodness. What a privilege it would have been to be there to see this elder statesman put real preaching on display. In the message, he expounded on one basic, but very important principle of biblical thinking. The fact that he was standing there delivering the message also added a living dimension: don’t believe there is a practical/sensible season of retreat from our mission in the here and now.
Jay Adams will go down in church history as the founder of the most significant discipleship movement to ever occur in Western culture. The remnant of that movement that survived a demonic onslaught is embodied in the Institute of Nouthetic Studies. A certificate from that institute should be required for any church to consider a pastoral candidate. Pastors who are able to give people real hope are the only answer to present-day dysfunctional churchianity ruled by mystic despots.
Our thanks to God precede. Here is the mp3: http://www.nouthetic.org/resources/podcast/psalm-11
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Paul, I thought nouthetic counseling was over run by new Calvinist thinking… BD
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BD,
It was, Adams is no longer a part of NANC. He was run out of both CCEF and NANC. Adams was viciously persecuted by both camps. In 1999, Adams wrote a book against Sonship theology (primarily, his beef was with its soteriology). Only problem is, Sonship soteriology is Calvinism. I am going to send you CH 9 of TTANC and CH 4 of FR. That will lay it all out for you.
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BD: https://paulspassingthoughts.com/2013/06/03/jay-adams-versus-the-new-calvinists-ttanc-chapter-9-false-reformation-chapter-3/
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Your post here about Jay Adams and the Nouthetic Institute is timely. Alex Guggenheim over at The Pedestrian Christian blog gave a great definition of the greek word for Nouthetic. It is in reference to the word “warned” in Acts 20:31.
“The word used here for warn is noutheteó (νουθετῶν) and it has in view far more than simply generic warnings but refers to an ongoing and explicit revealing of truth to and reasoning with someone, accompanied by an exertion of pressure that they handle this discovery as a matter of urgency where they then must make a choice. It is a form of corrective counsel by way of revealing what is wrong and not simply leaving it there but with the expectation that a choice be made on the matter.” (http://thepedestrianchristian.blogspot.com/2013/05/acts-2028-32-and-discernment-blogs-what.html)
This is certainly a sharp contrast between the drivel espoused by Jerry Bridges and Ed Welsh and the like, who don’t expect men to make decisions, or that they can even make decisions or change their behaviors.
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