The Deeper Life in the Alliance
by Paul King December 14, 2018
https://www.cmacan.o...n-the-alliance/
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This evening, for whatever reason, I did some internet research on the C&MA and 'Deeper Life'.
Most of my time was spent reading the many posts in a thread started with the question "Is the CMA Calvinist?" by Steve Page, posted 23 June 2011. The thread is filled with a full gamut of answers, official and otherwise.
https://ecommunity.c...4-cma-question/
(My opinion would be that it was not, but has become so. I sincerely wonder if Calvin would be pleased with what is represented as Calvinism today. Luther banned an associate for teaching what is being lived in many churches today. The old Calvinists that I have known believed in real purity and holiness. If your life did not bear good fruit, you just were never saved.)
My observations, from my internet reading, put Alliance beliefs, especially what is coming out of Nyack College, closer to the teachings of the Reformer Martin Luther, than those of A.B. Simpson. My observations are on the fruit produced rather than the actual doctrines taught.
I did not want to revive an old thread, but felt to post what I consider to be one of the best articles that I have recently read on the 'Deeper Life. It expresses the early Alliance and Simpson's beliefs about the "Deeper Life" that I was taught and grew up with.
https://www.cmacan.o...n-the-alliance/
I was really impressed that it was written in Dec. of 2018. Maybe I am not very well informed, but do the Canadians have a better understanding of Simpson's 'Deeper Life' than the organization in the States???
In the two plus years that I have been involved on this site I have seen little over-all interest in the defense of the concepts of the 'Deeper Life'. Most of those that I have experienced, on this web site, are, like myself, not attending Alliance Churches.
According to what I read, few, if any, have a scriptural understanding of A.B. Simpson's thoughts and writings on the "Deeper Life" and the deliverance offered to humanity through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.