A Reformed theologian told a conference centered on the Bible book of 2 Timothy that it’s wrong for Christians to “unhitch” their beliefs from the Old Testament, something megachurch pastor Andy Stanley had exhorted earlier this year.
Preaching from 2 Timothy 1:3-8, Ray Ortlund, senior pastor of Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee, and the president of Renewal Ministries, pointed out that when the Apostle Paul was writing to Timothy in the epistle, he stressed his religious heritage through Judaism.
“Paul looks back into his own deepest roots. He goes back to David, to Moses, to Abraham. He reveres the faith that came down to him even filtered through Jewish tradition,” Ortlund said Tuesday at the Gospel Coalition’s West Coast Conference, held at EvFree Fullerton in California.
Ortlund then alluded to comments that Stanley made in a sermon back in late April, without naming the Georgia pastor.
“Unlike some preachers today, Paul did not ‘unhitch’ the Christian faith from the Old Testament,” said Ortlund, his…
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