The Great Omission

American Vision ^ | May 6, 2011 | Joel McDurmon

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In a previous partial review of Michael Horton’s The Gospel Commission: Recovering God’s Strategy for Making Disciples, I began documenting some of his duplicities in regard to the Lordship of Christ and the meaning of the subject matter of that book. I mentioned how clearly he writes of Christ’s all-encompassing power early in the book, but then spends the rest of the book qualifying it to death.

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In order to escape the meaning of Jesus’ claim to “All power in heaven and on earth,” Horton simply relegates the application of this power to a future dispensation. Much like dispensationalists, he sees the Church age as an intermission:

The Great Commission is given to the church for this time between his first and second comings. It is an intermission between his accomplishment of redemption and his return to consummate its blessings (63).

In fact, Horton goes so far as to adopt the old language of dispensational theology, calling the time in which we now live “the parenthesis” for the church’s preaching of the gospel (67).

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"In brief, Horton’s view is militantly amillennial. It says that we should not expect cultural (in any way) progress in history as the gospel advances, and that it is contrary to the gospel to work for it."

One's eschatology has consequences.

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"For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled." (Luke 21:22)

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he sees the Church age as an intermission:

ooohkay, let's back away to the door and call the loony police!