"Saving A Seminary" (the story of SBTS and Al Mohler and why it matters).

Saving a Seminary was the title of a June 13th World Magazine article with Marvin Olasky and Dr. Al Mohler.  Over the past many years Dr. Mohler has been repeatedly asked how he turned around a once liberal leaning seminary into a bastion of orthodox (biblical) Christianity.  

Mohler has been open and honest while recounting the past and has candidly stated that biblical change doesn't just happen without the shedding of blood, sweat, and tears.  Dr. Mohler has not shared these details in order to present himself as a Christian martyr.  These painful stories remind men that you must be willing to pay a price if God calls you to serve in this type of ministry context.  I have provided plenty of article over the years that emphasize this very point.  This is especially important for pastors and lay leaders who are involved in church revitalization contexts.  We must "consider the cost" before building God's tower.

In view of what God has done in Louisville many leading evangelical leaders have offered praise to God for the reformational efforts of Mohler at Southern seminary.  Dr. Mohler would be the first person to tell you that ONLY GOD can rescue (or turn around) a spiritually sick seminary or church.  Having  said that, the Scriptures also teach that God not only ordains the end He also ordains the means.  In other words, God often chooses to use faithful Christian servants in order to carry out His purposes on earth (see Titus 1:5f; Col. 1:28-29).  In this manner. Dr. Mohler was the primary human instrument that the Lord used to "save" SBTS seminary.

The Scandal of Biblical Illiteracy: It’s Our Problem

"The Scandal of Biblical Illiteracy: It’s Our Problem"

Re-posted with  permission from www.albertmohler.com 

Photo Credit: https://spu.edu/depts/uc/response/spring2k7/

"We will not believe more than we know, and we will not live higher than our beliefs.

While America’s evangelical Christians are rightly concerned about the secular worldview’s rejection of biblical Christianity, we ought to give some urgent attention to a problem much closer to home-biblical illiteracy in the church.  This scandalous problem is our own, and it’s up to us to fix it.

Researchers George Gallup and Jim Castelli put the problem squarely: “Americans revere the Bible-but, by and large, they don’t read it.  And because they don’t read it, they have become a nation of biblical illiterates.”  How bad is it?  Researchers tell us that it’s worse than most could imagine.