Sola Fide

Great post over at Internet Monk.  An excerpt:

I grew up in a church that would have told you that you had to believe in salvation by faith alone to be a Baptist. I minister among those same people today.

And what do I hear?

I hear that no Christian could read Harry Potter.

I hear that no Christian would wear that t-shirt or listen to that kind of music.

I hear that no Christian could possibly not see in the Bible all the things that I see there.

I hear that if you are a Christian, you must support these political views.

I hear that a person can’t be a Christian and not oppose another set of political views.’

I hear dress codes called “the way Christians should dress.”

I hear in reference to any number of sins common to human beings that “no one could be a Christian and do that.”

And with every statement (and many more) sola fide is dismantled a bit more.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones once said that if you aren’t regularly accused of being an antinomian, you probably haven’t preached the Gospel. I absolutely agree.