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We propose that covenant theology is that distinctive between Baptists and paedobaptists and that all the divergences that exist between them, both theological and practical, including baptism, stem from their different ways of
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“Whether you realize it or not, you are a theologian. You come to a book like this with a working theology, an existing understanding of God. Whether you are an agnostic or a fundamentalist — or something in between — you have a working theology that shapes and informs the way you think and live. However, I suspect that you are reading this book because you’re interested in examining your theology more closely. You are open to having it challenged and strengthened. You know that theology — the study of God — is more than an intellectual hobby. It’s a matter of life and death, something that affects the way you think, the decisions you make each day, the way you relate to God and other people, and the way you see yourself and the world around you.”
― Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples
― Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples
“We do not read the Bible somewhere off by ourselves in a corner; we read it as a community of faith, together with the whole church in all times and places.”
― Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples
― Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples
“Only when we start with the gospel — the most controversial point of Christian faith — are we ready to talk about who God is and how we know him.”
― Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples
― Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples
“When we meet God in the gospel, we first encounter him as a stranger, come to rescue us from a danger we did not even realize we were in.”
― Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples
― Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples
“All of our faith and practice arise out of the drama of Scripture, the “big story” that traces the plot of history from creation to consummation, with Christ as its Alpha and Omega, beginning and end. And out of the throbbing verbs of this unfolding drama God reveals stable nouns — doctrines. From what God does in history we are taught certain things about who he is and what it means to be created in his image, fallen, and redeemed, renewed, and glorified in union with Christ. As the Father creates his church, in his Son and by his Spirit, we come to realize what this covenant community is and what it means to belong to it; what kind of future is promised to us in Christ, and how we are to live here and now in the light of it all. The drama and the doctrine provoke us to praise and worship — doxology — and together these three coordinates give us a new way of living in the world as disciples.”
― Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples
― Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples
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