View of God
1. Man centered:Point of contact with non-Christian is love (God loves you).
Therefore, God’s authority is secondary.
Therefore, God’s authority is secondary.
2. God centered:Point of contact with non-Christians is creation (God loves you and made you). Therefore, God has authority over your destiny.
1. Man centered:Love is God’s chief attribute.
2. God centered: Holiness and love are equally important attributes of God.
1. Man centered:God is impotent before the sinner's will.
2. God centered: God is able to empower the sinner's will.
1. Man centered:God is a friend who will help you.
2. God centered:God is a merciful King who will save you and calls you into sonship and friendship.
View of Humanity
1. Man centered:Fallen, yet has the ability or potential to choose the good.
2.God centered:Fallen, but not able to come to God unless the Spirit draws him.
1. Man centered:Seeks truth but lacks facts.
2. God centered:Mind at enmity with God; none seek God.
1. Man centered: Needs, love, help, and friendship.
2. God centered: Needs a new nature (new heart) regeneration.
1. Man centered: Makes mistakes, is imperfect, needs forgiveness.
2. God centered:Rebel’s against God, has a sinful nature, needs reconcilliation and redemption.
1. Man centered: Needs salvation from the consequences of sin—unhappiness and hell.
2. God centered: Needs salvation from guilt and the power of sin.
1. Man centered:Humanity is sick and ignorant.
2.God centered: Humanity is dead and lost.
View of Christ
1. Man centered: Savior from selfishness, mistakes, hell.
2. God centered:Savior from sin and sinful nature and the idolatry of self.
1.Man centered: God exists for our benefit.
2.God centered:God exists to gather a kingdom, to receive honor and glory, and to birth sons and daughters and bring them into His image.
1. Man centered:His death was more important than his life.
2. God centered:His death land his life of obedience equally important.
1. Man centered: Emphasizes his priestly office—as Savior.
2. God centered:Emphasizes his priestly, kingly, and prophetic offices.
1.Man centered:Submission to Christ’s Lordship is optional for salvation.
2. God centered: Submission to Christ’s Lordship is necessary for salvation.
View of Response to Christ
1. Man centered: Invitation waiting to be accepted now.
2.God centered: Loving command to be obeyed now.
1.Man centered: Our choice is the basis for salvation God—God responds to our decision.
2.God centered:God’s choice is the basis for salvation; we respond to God's initiative.
1. Man centered:We give mental assent to the truths of the Gospel—decision.
2. God centered:We respond with our whole person (mind, heart, and will) transformation.
1. Man centered: Appeal is made to the desires of the sinner.
2. God centered:Truths are driven home into the conscience of the sinner.
1. Man centered: Saved by faith alone, no emphasis on repentance.
2. God centered:Saved by faith alone—always accompanied by repentance.
1.Man centered: Assurance of salvation comes from a counselor using the promises of God and pronouncing the new believer saved.
2. God centered: Assurance of salvation comes from inner witness of the Holy Spirit giving the inner knowledge of God, revealing Jesus Christ and biblical promises to the heart, and effecting a changed life.
1. Man centered: Sinners have the key in their hands.
2. God centered:God has the key to their hearts.
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