Last night at Eternity was awesome. Tense…but awesome. We looked at “What Is Conversion” and simply looked at what the language of Scripture is and what does the Bible have to say about how we become partakers of the Gospel.

The band did a great job in my opinion. Definitely doesn’t sound like a band playing week two of a new church plant. Afterwards, our folks had great questions and there is a definite desire to get our arms and minds around Scripture. I love that about Eternity.

As I was putting up resources on our core group page, there was one quote that I wanted to share here on the blog. It comes from Iain Murray who was at one time an assistant of Dr. David Martin Lloyd-Jones and I think speaks very clearly of one of the dangers of not having a proper understanding of conversion:

A man may make a profession without ever having his confidence in his own ability shattered; he has been told absolutely nothing of his need of a change of nature which is not within his own power, and consequently, if he does not experience such a radical change, he is not dismayed. He was never told it was essential so he sees no reason to doubt whether he is a Christian. Indeed, the teaching he has come under consistently militates against such doubts arising. It is frequently said that a man who has made a decision with little evidence of a change of life may be a ‘carnal’ Christian who needs instruction in holiness, or if the same individual should gradually lose his new-found interests, the fault is frequently attributed to lack of ‘follow-up,’ or prayer, or some other deficiency on the part of the Church. The possibility that these marks of worldliness and falling away are due to the absence of a saving experience at the outset is rarely considered; if this point were faced, then the whole system of appeals, decisions and counseling would collapse, because it would bring to the fore the fact that change of nature is not in man’s power, and that it takes much longer than a few hours or days to establish whether a professed response to the gospel is genuine. But instead of facing this, it is protested that to doubt whether a man who has ‘accepted Christ’ is a Christian is tantamount to doubting the Word of God, and that to abandon ‘appeals’ and their adjuncts is to give up evangelism altogether.”

God continues to amaze me with what He is doing at Eternity. I love being a part of this church and I’m stoked about where we at and where we are headed.