Covenant of Works: Meritorious or Not

I remember back in my seminary days with all the FV stuff blowing up and how some out West thought not focusing on a meritorious Covenant of Works would lead to a denial of the Gospel. Well, after almost two years of pastoring a growing new church, guess how many times I have preached on the Covenant of Works, meritorious or not? Yep, not once! Of course Adam and his relationship to God lies underneath THE STORY but I'm so busy teaching people about the life of Christ and the Kingdom he established that I don't have time to sweat systematic minutiae. If your church spends a lot of time on stuff like this you probably look like that dude in M. Night Shyamalan’s “Lady in the Water” who has a puny body but a huge, muscular right arm.

Do you really think your congregation wants to spend time categorizing condign, congruous and pactum merit?

Comments

[Michael Barber]

Hey Garrett, what up G?

It looks like you've also spent more time in vocabulary drills than you have preaching on the Cov. of Works......nice!

[jennifer]

Hey,

Just a note that has nothing to do with your post to let you know we haven't forgotten you. Please tell michele I plan to call soon. I miss you guys.

[katecho]

Hilarious, and fitting reference to the guy with the overworked right arm.

The ironic part is that your comment shows up pretty near the top when doing a google search on pactum merit. [smile]

[Garrett]

Yeah, shows how important pactum merit is in the full scheme of things.