Fawning Treatment of Yancey at WELS.net
If I had been sitting in the crowed of followers when Jesus first delivered his Sermon on the Mount, beginning with beatitudes such as, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven," and "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth," and "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God," I probably would have strolled down from the mountainside a bit confused. Nothing to be ashamed of. After all Christian author, Philip Yancey, admits as much in his book, "The Jesus I Never Knew."
Yet Yancey unfolds these statements of Jesus with great skill as he continues, and explains them as follows.
Dangled Promises. What Yancey describes as perhaps some kind of sop Jesus threw to the unfortunates. It's as if Jesus were saying, "Well, since you aren't rich, and your health is failing, and your face is wet with tears, I'll toss out a few niche phrases to make you feel better."
Yancey quoted as a Biblical expert in FIC.
Yancey viewed and approved by NPH.
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "WELS Website Leads with Yancey Quotation":
One only needs to search for Philip Yancy's name on the WELS website to see how much stock they put in his teachings and how much he has infiltrated our synod. Back in the day, you couldn't so much as pray with anyone outside the synod (they could pray with US however) and here you see only the tip of the iceberg as WELS makes her way down that slippery slope. Wake up, people!!
RM
