Tabletalk Magazine, August 2000: Liberalism: Spiritual Adultery

by Ligonier Ministries

Publisher:

Ligonier Ministries

, 2000

Overview

For more than thirty years, Tabletalk has existed as a magazine for laymen. Generally speaking, laymen receive either very little instruction in the weightier matters of the faith, or the instruction is too academic, thereby making the material largely inaccessible to average laymen. This is the reason Tabletalk exists — to bridge the gap between these two poles, to explain to the people of God important, biblical doctrines and events while admonishing them toward holy living.

Contributors include R.C. Sproul along with James B. Jordan, James M. Boice, Tim Rake, Robert Barnes, Sinclair Ferguson, Edmund Clowney, and Bill Neff. Tabletalk features articles about topics central to the Christian faith and daily, in-depth Bible studies.

Contents

• "A Facade of Faith" by R.C. Sproul
• "Hath God Said?" by James B. Jordan
• "Running with the Wolves" by James M. Boice
• "Guarding the Guardian" by Tim Rake
• "Taken Captive" by Robert Barnes
• "Lead Us Not into Frustration" by Sinclair Ferguson
• "The Gospel for Pagans" by Edmund Clowney
• "In Season and Out" by Bill Neff
• "Coram Deo"
• "On the Shoulders of Giants"
• "The Cultural Mind"
• "Tolle Lege"

Top Highlights

“This is what all the ‘mainstream churches’ today teach.” (Page 57)

“How is liberalism in the church to be defeated? Only by the true Christian Gospel. And that can be recovered only through the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God. If the Bible is neglected, liberalism will come in, because liberalism is merely men and women thinking as men and women always think apart from revelation.” (Page 58)

“It is only by the sword of the Spirit that we are able to ‘demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and … take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ’” (Page 58)

“Evangelicals have embraced worldliness in the same ways that it was embraced by the liberal churches” (Page 14)

“Liberalism is not a subset of historic Christianity. J. Gresham Machen rightly said, ‘An examination of the teachings of liberalism in comparison with those of Christianity will show that at every point the two movements are in direct opposition.’” (Page 7)

Praise for the Print Edition

Tabletalk has been a key ingredient in the diet of Christians conscious of their spiritual vitality.

—Michael S. Horton

Month by month, Tabletalk represents an oasis in a desert of false spirituality, mindless Christianity, and vapid conviction. Tabletalk represents theological rigor, biblical Christianity, and authentic Christian devotion. It is an antidote to the world of superficial Christianity. Read it and grow.

—R. Albert Mohler, Jr.

Tabletalk has been a wonderful resource in my own daily walk with the Lord.

—Ravi Zacharias

Product Details

• Title: Tabletalk Magazine, August 2000: Liberalism: Spiritual Adultery
• Executive Editor: R. C. Sproul
• Editor: Burk Parsons
• Series: Tabletalk
• Publisher: Ligonier Ministries
• Publication Date: August 2000
• Pages: 62

About Ligonier Ministries

R. C. Sproul is founder and president of Ligonier Ministries and president of Ligonier Academy. He also servers as the senior pastor of Saint Andrew’s in Sanford, Fla., and he has written more than seventy books including The Holiness of God, The Intimage Marriage, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith, Following the Cross, and the R. C. Sproul Exposition Collection.

Burk Parsons serves as editor of Tabletalk and associate pastor of Saint Andrew’s in Sanford, Fla., and he is editor of the books Assured by God: Living in the Fullness of God’s Grace and John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, and Doxology.