Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God?

Monday, 14th July 2008

Okay, let's get back to the "severely disturbing" posts :-)

A week ago, a fellow PLMC member asked me to watch on YouTube a law-based sermon entitled "The Shocking Youth Message" by Paul Washer.

Well, something similar happened last year...

From Aug 2005 to Dec 2006, I was in a cell group named 3L2. (3L is the name of a cluster of cell groups, and the groups are numbered from 1 through 6).

In Jan 2007, the cell multiplied, and from that a daughter cell 3L7 was formed, with me being appointed as the cell leader. (This cell was dissolved in Dec 2007, four months after I was made to step down as its cell leader, as well as treasurer of the church, of which you can read about here so I won't go into further details in this blog entry, lest I be accused of sounding like a broken record...)

Anyway, in spite of being in a new cell, I received a forwarded email from one of the members of 3L2 (let's call him Mr A), which contained an attachment of an article entitled "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". This is another one of those law-based sermons by an 18th century pastor by the name of Jonathan Edwards.

This email had originated from another 3L2 cell member (let's call him Mr B), who strongly holds on to the belief that Christians can lose their salvation, and circulated this article to support his point of view.

Dear readers of ROOTSS, do write in and tell me what your views on the article are.

Coming back to the story. At first, I was curious as to why Mr A would send me an email that was meant for the consumption of my previous cell. Then it dawned upon me that he knew my stand on the grace gospel, and wanted to get my response on that email. And so I did (much to the chagrin of Mr B, I believe).

Anyway, since then Mr B has moved on to another Methodist Church.

As for Mr A, we still keep very much in touch. In fact, he now attends New Creation Church every week! Having tasted gourmet food, I doubt he would settle for anything less. Amen?