100 Years and Worldliness
Brian Huizinga, a professor at the Protestant Reformed Theological Seminary, addresses the danger of worldliness among PRC members, arguing that such hypocrisy is especially serious given the denomination's 100-year rejection of common grace doctrine. The article contends that the PRC's historical opposition to common grace is rooted in the conviction that this doctrine destroys the necessary antithesis between the church and the world, and he applies this principle to exhort believers to maintain spiritual separation from worldly living.
Would you not agree that the hypocrisy of any Protestant Reformed man, woman, or young person who loves and lives like the wicked world is a double hypocrisy? All professing Christians who love and live like the wicked world must be sharply admonished, "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God" (Jam. 4:4). All must be exhorted, "Love not the world!" (1 John 2:15) and "Be...
Full article available on sb.rfpa.org
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