"An age that holds truth in antipathy will look at confessions of faith as antiquarian holdovers from an oppressive past. On the other hand, an institution determined to remain true to biblical
truth must be honest about its boundaries." -Al Mohler
Sometimes I forget that I belong to a confessional Church. Just as the culture has joined in an aporia or "waylessness" in relativistic presuppositions, Christiandom has also unconsciously adopted its own forms of aporia as it conforms itself to the latest fad. Always mutating to meet the fickle needs of a Church culture who isn't primarily interested in what it means to be the church. As the tides of secular culture crash against the church many Churches have abandoned the bulwark to protect themselves from being carried of into the turbulent seas of secularism. I speaking of the historic creeds and confessions that have kept the church from deviating into unchristian waters for the past 2000 years.
In my denomination we have adopted a marginal view of our confession believing it to be an "antiquarian holdover from an oppressive past." Nothing can be further from the truth. As it turns out we have become self conscious of stigmas like "antiquarian" because they aren't trendy, hip, or "relevant." At what cost do we abandon the defenses that protect us from secular influences? What we have is a Church culture that claims to understand what is truly relevant, but Biblically speaking understands very little of what it means to be the body of Christ. Dorothy Sayers was correct is asserting, if you don't have a Christian creed by default you end up embracing chaos.
I appreciate the work that the faculty members at SBTS have put together in the brief exposition of the Baptist Faith & Message. You can read this brief exposition by clicking the link below.
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