Is Sunday School Curriculum Undermining The Gospel?

So it isn't really "is Sunday school undermining the Gospel," it's "are deficient Sunday-school lessons undermining the Gospel."

And even so, she's only 75% right. You only have to read Galatians to see that imitating the faith of Abraham is part and parcel with the Gospel.
 
"How Esther had sex outside of marriage with a non-believer and God loved her and pursued her"

Say what???  Never read that in the story.  I see how you could go there if you we're predisposed to, but this is the first I've ever heard it.
 
I guess I was thinking more of the implied lesson that we are to achieve these great feats of faith when they are in fact acts of God through willing vessels. Full surrender should be the lesson, not some "you just need to try harder" tripe.
 
subllibrm said:
Full surrender should be the lesson, not some "you just need to try harder" tripe.
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"Full surrender" isn't exactly the Gospel, either, if you mean it in the Keswick Holiness sense. We're called to have faith and obey, not to surrender to the leading of the Holy Spirit.
 
Ransom said:
subllibrm said:
Full surrender should be the lesson, not some "you just need to try harder" tripe.
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"Full surrender" isn't exactly the Gospel, either, if you mean it in the Keswick Holiness sense. We're called to have faith and obey, not to surrender to the leading of the Holy Spirit.
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Dying to oneself. Spirit vs. flesh.

"I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me."

I mean in the sense that I must rely upon Him, not on my "will power" or some other "pull myself up by my bootstraps" effort to do good.
 
This article is one of many writings intended to do away with all preaching and teaching on "doing right."  This type of teaching is being quickly picked up by the new generation of IFB preachers (those who graduated Bible college in the last 15 years...ie...Schaap's Generation.)  They have recognized the overreaching "legalism" of the previous generation and are attempting to make a course correction.  Unfortunately, they are grossly over correcting.  They are pulling out of the ditch of "legalism" but ending up in the ditch of "liberalism." 

God does want us to promote spirituality and love over appearance and works.  The focus should always be on the heart of the believer.  But since none of us will ever be truly "spiritual" in a perfect sense until we arrive in glory, it is important to still preach righteousness and holiness to help each other overcome the flesh.  Christ saved me, just the way I was...but he has no intention of letting me stat that way.
 
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