“If we knew this is what you taught before we joined the church, we probably wouldn’t have joined,” remarked a dear saint to me before submitting a membership resignation.
Years of growing doctrinal dissonance between him and our church’s public teaching led to this meeting. I replied, “If we knew what you believed, then we would have slowed down before bringing you into our membership.”
To my brother’s credit, the conversation was amicable despite exasperation on both sides.
The disputed matter concerned the perpetuity of Old Testament laws and their application to Christians and culture. My brother believed that most, if not all, Old Testament laws were still binding today, especially those governing Israel’s civil life. After all, Jesus taught, “Until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished” (Matt. 5:18).
Resolving myriad disagreements on how to interpret our Lord’s teaching is not the aim of this essay. Yet the illustration above highlights the challenge of Theonomy and Reconstruction (TheoRecon) and other related errors for Baptist pastors today, especially in Calvinistic or confessionally Reformed churches.
Moreover, in the face of today’s so-called “culture war,” TheoRecon teachers often take bold
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