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The Manhattan Declaration

In Theology on 11/23/2009 at 5:04 PM

The Manhattan Declaration is described as the following on its website.

We are Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christians who have united at this hour to reaffirm fundamental truths about justice and the common good, and to call upon our fellow citizens, believers and non-believers alike, to join us in defending them. These truths are:

  1. the sanctity of human life
  2. the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife
  3. the rights of conscience and religious liberty.

You can read the entire document HERE.  My favorite paragraph from the document is the following:

Because we honor justice and the common good, we will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo­-destructive research, assisted suicide and euthanasia, or any other anti-­life act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family. We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar’s. But under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God’s.

Mohler gives reasons why he signed the Manhattan Delcartion.  Here is a summary of why he did.

  1. I signed The Manhattan Declaration because I believe it is an historic statement of conviction and courage that is both timely and urgent.
  2. I signed The Manhattan Declaration because I lead a theological seminary and college, serve as a teaching pastor in a church, and am engaged in Christian leadership in the public square.
  3. I signed The Manhattan Declaration because it is a limited statement of Christian conviction on these three crucial issues, and not a wide-ranging theological document that subverts confessional integrity. I cannot and do not sign documents such as Evangelicals and Catholics Together that attempt to establish common ground on vast theological terrain.
  4. Finally, I signed The Manhattan Declaration because I want to put my name on its final pledge — that we will not bend the knee to Caesar. We will not participate in any subversion of life. We will not be forced to accept any other relationship as equal in status or rights to heterosexual marriage. We will not refrain from proclaiming the truth — and we will order our churches and institutions and ministries by Christian conviction.

FOX News has a short piece on it below:

God uses men who…

In Theology on 11/23/2009 at 2:45 PM

Lloyd-Jones said

You will always find that the men whom God has used signally have been those who have studied most, known their Scriptures best, and given time to preparation.

With that said, back to studying…

Packer on Lloyd Jones’ Preaching (2)

In Theology on 11/23/2009 at 2:26 PM

Always he spoke as a debater making a case; as a physician making a diagnosis; as a theologian blessed with what he once recognized in another as a “naturally theological mind,” thinking things out from Scripture in terms of God; and as a man who loved history and its characters and had thought his way into the minds and motives, the insight and the follies, of very many of them.

 

from J. I. Packer, “David Martyn Lloyd-Jones” in Charles Turner, ed., Chosen Vessels.  Portraits of Ten Outstanding Christian Men, 120