Even an evangelical theological education may not be a guarantee that one will be taught clearly the need for conversion (see yesterday’s post). There are various reasons for this. Some evangelical educations will be so academic that the need for personal conversion is obscured. Some may place such an emphasis on God’s sovereignty that the need for a personal response gets lost. And some are called evangelical today which do not require conversion (not as an event, or an encounter with God). Rather, becoming a Christian is a process, an absorption into the Story. OBSERVATION: It was a Lutheran education in Europe which made a real impression on me, personally, with regard to the need for conversion and the nature of it -- and it was a well known professor, Herbert Jantzen, in particular.
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