This is another excerpt from Douglas Bond's book,
Hold Fast in a Broken World. He offers a unique warning to Reformed Christians who may push the boundaries of liberty.
Because of our emphasis on the cultural mandate and our understanding that all of life is sacred, Reformed Christians are more prone to the danger of perverting liberty. Many conclude that we're free to indulge.
Consequently, while engaging and redeeming culture, we often fail to watch our backs, not reckoning with the spell that the world's culture can have on us. Intellectual arrogance completes the cycle by making us certain that it won't happen to us. Armed more with ethical invincibility, alas, than with caution at our total depravity, we go questing for the world's spiritual longings in pop culture's music, movies, and fashion, all too confident that we won't be corrupted in the quest....
Without self-denial and biblical zeal for precise holiness, without which no generation will see the Lord, Christian liberty simply devolves into license to live a worldly life and presume on grace. "Do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature" (Gal. 5:13). First century Christians were prone to this. So are we.
What do you think? Do we tend to allow too many things into our lives thinking we are safe from contamination? Are we too open to all kinds of music? Do we tend to indulge in drinking too much? Are any Hollywood movies off limits to us? Should they? Something to think about.
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