Pastor Brown has written a spot on piece about the trend in today’s battles over sexuality and abortion that see Lutherans allying themselves ever more closely with Roman Catholics.
As he points out, there’s nothing wrong with this in principle. We can fight against gay marriage and abortion to some degree side-by-side with those whose theology we disagree with (as even Southern Baptist Albert Mohler has said recently to a group of Mormons at BYU: “I don’t believe we will be going to heaven together, but we may well be going to jail together” – or something to that effect). But when we start taking their premises about God and the Gospel – the premises that drive their conclusions about how and why to fight the culture wars and are often manifestly different from ours – and incorporating them into our own theology, we make a grievous error, paving the road to hell with our good intentions.
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