Social Sins in Lent

[Jerome]

Reformed Baptist Timothy George of the 'Founders' faction of Southern Baptists:

http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2016/03/social-sins-in-lent

The season of Lent is a time of meditation and self-denial, as Christians join with Jesus in his journey toward the cross. Most often, the penitential disciplines of Lent focus on personal sins

But as Jesus traveled with his disciples on that last journey from Galilee to Jerusalem, his focus was on something else, what we might call social sins

Isn’t it interesting how eating together is such a sensitive thing? When the Civil Rights Movement really got started, it was at lunch counters. Jesus was tolerated as long as he was merely doing miracles and teaching the Sermon on the Mount. But when he began to eat with the wrong kinds of people, his enemies sneered...

What is prejudice? Prejudice literally means to judge in advance. It means not to deal with a person as a person, but to put on that person all kinds of labels.

Do you see the progression here? You start with the inhospitality, which leads to insularity—“you are not one of us”—and, before long, you have descended to inhumanity. Three steps down into the pit.

 

[ReformedBaptist]

I'll try this post again. Timothy George is not a Reformed Baptist. lol, my post keeps disappearing!

 

[rsr]

Looks like a Reformed Baptist to me.

" I was born an Arminian, as everyone is. I came only slowly, through much study and reflection, to a Reformed understanding of the doctrines of grace as taught by such notable Baptists as John Bunyan, Benjamin Keach, Roger Williams, John Clarke, Isacc Backus, Andrew Fuller, William Carey, Richard Furman, Jesse Mercer, James P. Boyce, John A. Broadus, B. H. Carroll, Charles H. Spurgeon, John L. Dagg, R. B. C. Howell, Patrick Hues Mell, and Augustus Hopkins Strong, to go no further. I know of nothing that has happened in history of salvation since these great Baptist theologians wrote about God’s grace, that makes what they said outdated or irrelevant to our contemporary concerns. I commend their theology to my fellow Baptists today, not because it is theirs, or mine, but because it seems to me to reflect the underlying and overarching storyline of God’s redemptive love revealed in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation."
Presented as a plenary address at the conference on “Baptist Identity: Convention, Cooperation, and Controversy”
Union University, Jackson, Tennessee
February 20, 2007

 

[Jerome]

I too am baffled by post #2's denial.



Timothy George, Amazing Grace: God's Pursuit, Our Response

I write from the perspective of a Reformed Baptist theologian.

Tom Ascol

George has long referred to himself as a “Reformed Baptist” and has served on the editorial board of the Founders Journal.

Interview with Dr. Timothy George

I am, for example, a reformed Baptist

 

[ReformedBaptist]

I found him to be quite ecumenical. This is not characteristic of the reformed baptists I know. Nor do I find that he is confessional to the 1689 London Baptist Confession.