Four Contemporary Challenges to the Gospel

Recovering Grace Conference is a yearly FREE event of Saints and Sinners Unplugged by which we seek to provide Gospel conversations to the modern church desperately in need to return to the basic message of Grace through Jesus Christ.

This year we will be focusing on Four Contemporary Challenges to the Gospel in the church and keeping the centrality of the Gospel in our culture.

Four sessions were offered at this conference:

• Social Justice by Pastor Ken Jones
• Media & Internet by Pastor David Menendez
• Legalism by Pastor Jose Prado
• Charismatic Chaos by Pastor Aldo Leon

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The following is the audio from Pastor Aldo Leon's session “Charismatic Chaos”

Confessions of a Militant Reformed Credo-Baptist gone Paedo-baptist

I had plethora of subconscious baptistic assumptions that I would always bring to the text of scripture without question. When you are always starting with a Baptist assumption you will always come with baptistic conclusions. I needed to simply read the text at face value and let new assumptions be created rather than always be operating out of assumptions. Our assumptions are often subconscious until we bring them to the surface and honestly face them. When we do not face and acknowledge our assumptions we remain bound by them.

As our church transitions to have a covenantal view of the church membership which sees the children of believers as part of the church and so receivers of the covenant sign of baptism, I feel that there are some general things that need to be addressed. Though the church has practiced the administration of signs to their children for 3,500 years (before Christ and for 1,500 years after Christ in church history), the practice in our context is not practiced by many and if it is practiced, it is practiced in an unbiblical manner, for example as it is conducted by Roman Catholics. It is important to note however that many Christians all over the world still practice infant baptism in a biblical manner in the Presbyterian, Dutch Reformed, and Anglican/Episcopalian denominations.