I appreciated this post over at Pastor James MacDonald’s relatively-new blog Straight Up. It is by Gerald Hiestand on Erasmus and Post-Conservativism. Bottom line: theological reform is essential to ecclesial reform. For the Spirit of Revival is always the Spirit of Reformation.
I have spent most of this week working on the critical edition of Andrew Fuller’s life of his dear friend Samuel Pearce (1766-1799). There is so much instruction in the life of that dear man. Like this one line when he was dying, from a letter to Fuller: “how can I be a Christian, and not submit to God?” (April 18, 1799)
Think: a seemingly random line written by a dying man over two hundred years ago has such profound meaning for us today. In one line he captures a key aspect of the heart of our faith.
I was personally delighted to get news of a new blog devoted to the writings of John Ryland Jr (1753-1825), the close friend and confidant of Andrew Fuller, and his first biographer. It can be found at http://www.johnryland.co.uk. Good stuff!
Jeff Robinson has written a nice news story on the recent conference on the 17th century British Baptists held by the Andrew Fuller Center. The story can be accessed at the Towers website.