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What's Next for The Gospel Coalition

Co-founder Don Carson on the organization's growth.

Susan Wunderink | posted 5/12/2009 08:36AM

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School professor Don Carson and Tim Keller came up with the idea for the Gospel Coalition (TGC) several years ago. They kicked it off in 2007 with a conference attended by ...

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Bill	Posted: May 25, 2009 4:24 PM


On the subject of women, I think the place to start is getting some women on the list of resources for TGC. Visit their website and you will find 47 resource people pictured: all of them are men! Amazing! Are their no women deemed worthy of being a resource?

Francis H. Geis

Posted: May 15, 2009 4:44 PM

I tend to agree with M. J. Spaulding that the article really said nothing. Carson's comments about TGC are ambiguous. By describing it as a "confessional movement," of which Baptists, Presbyterians and Anglicans are a part, we must assume it is broadly Reformed in its theological outlook; by describing it as essentially "complementarian" in viewpoint, it apparently still holds the unbiblical view "that while men and women are equal in being, they are different in roles" and that "just as the Son is eternally in subjection to the Father, so women must be permanently in subjection to men in the home and in the church"--the two grand heresies perpetuated by CBMW, of which John Piper and Wayne Grudem are leading lights. Personally, I have no desire to be part of a group that perverts the Gospel, denies the gifting and calling of the Spirit, and perpetuates the unjust subjugation of women (cf. Acts 2:1-47; Gal. 3:26-4:7 and 2 Cor. 5:11-6:2).

Paul	Posted: May 14, 2009 1:54 PM

I'm encouraged that complementarians are moving closer to "incorporate and encourage women in all kinds of roles and functions and ministries" but need to move quicker and wiser. The male-bent, anti-biblical egalitarian approaches to doing ministry in the church and the world have got a huge distance to travel. I've yet to see an adequate response to the likes of Tom Wright's http://www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Women_Service_Church.htm or "Discovering Biblical Equality" (http://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Biblical-Equality-Complementarity-Hierar chy/dp/0830828346/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242327254&sr=8-1) to name a few balanced and fresh perspectives.

Karen

Posted: May 13, 2009 3:09 PM


I poked around on this group's website. It looks like it's part of the harsh, cold, fundamentalist movement running through Reformed circles right now. Made me run right back to my Wesleyan, egalitarian corner of Christianity and pull the covers up over my head.

Basil

Posted: May 13, 2009 9:07 AM


To M J Spalding. I agree that this article assumed that we all know who and what the Gospel Coalition believes and what their goals are. Here is a link to their site that should answer your questions. http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/about/who/

M J Spaulding

Posted: May 12, 2009 4:10 PM

This article said nothing. I don't know any more about the coalition now than when I started reading. How on earth could I decide if I think this is a good thing or not. What does the coalition believe. What do they hope to achieve, besides more member and more meetings. Do we really need another coalition. Why aren't the denominations hard and fast as they used to be? Were they wrong before or are they accommodating to the culture? Give us (subscribers) som meat. No more fluff.

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