How Doug Wilson and Co. Are Wailin’ on the Culture War
There is a growing concern over The Federal Vision (FV) again in North American Reformed Churches, here is why and here’s how to stop it:
1. Very few (at least initially) are attracted to its theological positions. Most people aren’t interested in Baptismal Regeneration, Padeocommunion, and a questionable view of Justification. They aren’t being drawn by the Romanizing Tendency of FV. It’s something else.
2. The major draw is what they are saying in the areas of gender roles, politics, culture, and issues within the church. Doug Wilson is addressing these issues at a rapid pace. He responds to issues in real time.
3. Wilson and Co. are saying common sense things which no one else is willing to say in respectable Reformed churches (so called). I am talking about gender roles and modesty here. I don’t always agree with what they say, but they are willing to talk about it, sometimes too bluntly but that is better than can be gotten out of many other quarters of the Reformed church.
4. They are building and preparing. Western Society is in a precarious situation and Wilson sees this. He offers decent advice on educating children and building strong churches in the midst of a radical and revolutionary society. They are encouraging people to build instead of just react to the chaos around them.
5. They do it like men. They are logical, masculine, and they fight. They are blunt and don’t back down. They don’t obsess with nuance or caveats. They say what they think and mean what they say.
6. They are anti-woke. They see Wokeness as dangerous and laughable. They treat Wokeness with scorn and offer it no quarter. This resonates with young men particularly.
7. They are anti-feministic. They are willing to speak about feminism and areas where feminism has encroached on the church. Again this has a huge appeal to both young men and women, who feel confused and struggle with lack of teaching on gender roles in the church broadly.
8. They use the Bible. Yes, they have errors. But they use the Bible to advance their cause on common sense/social issues far more cogently than weak kneed right wing politicians and pastors. They aren’t afraid of what the Bible says about social issues.
9. They are willing to resist. Whether you like it not Wilson’s followers were arrested at an anti-lockdown Psalm sing. Wilson has also been monitored by the FBI for his religious/ political activities. They are willing to fight for what they believe and aren’t easily scared off. This is more than I can say for much of the evangelical church in the West.
If the church wants to stop FV from again becoming a voice it needs to deal with the appeal of Wilson and others in these areas. Basically Pastors have to quit looking at in house debates, quit being hyper academic navel gazers and realize the house that is Western Civilization is on fire. It’s actually engulfed.
We need to treat the survivors we have build out and prepare to build something to weather the approaching storm.
Until the church does this FV will have an appeal because of the common sense issues it proponents address more thoughtfully than much of the Reformed church in North America.
Note. This post is a Facebook Post from Zach Dotson- adapted for this page.
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Jesus says nothing about the culture wars. Repent, read your Bible and shut your mouth sinners!
We are called to – “destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ” 2 Corinthians 10: 5,
We are to baptize the nations, “teaching them to observe all that I [Jesus] has commanded” because Christ Jesus has “all authority in heaven and on earth” Matt 28.
Jesus owns it all! He is reconciling “all things, whether on earth or in heaven”, He is over “all things…visible and invisible, (Colossians 1), this includes culture!!! And we are His ambassadors charges with the ministry of this very reconciliation!!! 2 Cor 10.
Your dispensational instincts may force you to shut your mouth, just read your bible without applying it anywhere outside the safety of your home and local church, but you would be wrong. Don’t be a coward. Be salt and light.
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A huge distinction must be made between Doug Wilson’s ministry and whatever Protestia is all about.
Wilson and the Cannon Press folks tell it like it is. They do not purposefully misrepresent others.
Contrast that with Protestia, who lies about Wilson’s position on pedobaptism – These guys do not teach baptismal regeneration!
This is a huge reason why Protestia is weak and Cannon Press is strong.
Protestia, doing great things, but FV isn’t a threat to the Christian church. Some disagreeable things, but it’s the type of big tent ecumenicism that we actually need rather than the charismatic/catholic ecumenicism that’s being pushing on the American church (and world), particularly and manipulatively through CCM. I’d rather too much off an emphasis, and perhaps the misapplication thereof, of the New Covenant rather than a watering down of it (or gatekeeping of it by withholding baptism of our children who profess faith), and I say that as a Reformed Baptist.
Baloney!
Wilson has clearly and thoroughly and dealt with issues of the federal and has distanced himself from the movement as a whole. He does not teach baptismal regeneration and I don’t know of any error within his understanding of Justification. Protestia I am thankful for your ministry, but you have to establish your accusations if you want to make them. Furthermore this is a team of people you’d much rather have on your side, than to simply cast them out.