Gordon Interview w/ Wolfe – II

“People are Christian by virtue to their connection to the visible Church.”

Rev. Chrissy Gordon
Interview w/ Dr. Stephen Wolfe

We need to note here that this is only true where people are connected to a true Church as defined in the Reformed Confessions. A true church is defined as one that rightly preaches the Word, that rightly administers the Sacraments and that rightly practices Church discipline.

Upon that standard, most people’s connections to most of the visible Church in the West today most definitely does not communicate that they are Christian. For example, given that Rev. Chris Gordon is adamantly R2K I would say the Church he Pastors is not a true Church since R2K denies, in the concrete, the office of “King” to Jesus the Christ. This would mean that the members of the Church he pastors should not be seen as Christian only because they are connected to his heretical church.

That is not to say that many (or even most) of the members of the Church Gordon Pastors are not Christian. They may indeed be. It merely means that I can’t measure their status as Christian by reason of their connection to his false church.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

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