Adapted and excerpted from Elliot Grudem’s Orlando Boot Camp message, “Why Arrogance Has No Place in Reformed Theology.”
When your study of theology grows your head and hardens your heart, you find yourself on a path of theological arrogance that won’t lead to greater theological precision – it will lead to heresy.
Reformed soteriology, rightly understood and applied in your life, should promote humility, not arrogance.
But if you look at church history, you know that even some of our greatest churchmen have wandered off into some pretty weird beliefs. And just their example should honestly sober you up.
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Excerpted from Elliot Grudem's message at the Orlando Boot Camp.
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In the last two years, Acts 29 pastors and leaders have put a major focus on the concept of humility in their faith and leadership. With excellent treatises on humility & pride from men like CJ Mahaney, much solid, biblical teaching has led to repentance of pride and a search for humility. One Acts 29 planter in Atlanta said he read CJ’s book on Humility six times and cried every time he read it because of the reality of pride in his own life.
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