Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Fourfold Gospel
Was the CMA Pentecostal or Baptist? I am getting confused They rejected the initial evidence doctrine, preferring instead the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding tongues and glossolalia and yet they share with the Foursquare church the emphasis on what A.B. Simpson, CMA founder, calls the "Fourfold Gospel." Frederick H. Senft, in his Introduction to Simpson's "Fourfold Gospel," says: "This does not mean that the blessings of the Gospel are limited
exclusively
to four — Christ our Saviour, Christ our Sanctifier, Christ our Healer,
and
Christ our Coming Lord. In one sense it is a manifold Gospel with
countless
blessings and ever deeper and richer experiences of God's grace and
love. 'But there are four messages in the Gospel,' says the author, 'which sum
up in a very complete way the blessings which Christ has to offer us and
which it is especially important that Christians should emphasize
today.'
These constitute four great pillars in the temple of truth." Ok, so, that's nice, but still, it goes confusing. That is why they are the elected denominational position paper writers and I am not.