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Dear Friends of Gordon-Conwell,
All truth is held in tension. God’s sovereignty exists in tension with human responsibility. Our prayers are in tension with God’s foreknowledge (why pray if God knows better than we do what we need?). Human suffering exists in tension with God’s love and infinite power (Why do bad things happen to God’s people?)
John wrote about our Lord Jesus that he was “full of grace and truth.” At Gordon-Conwell we struggle with that tension. We hold strongly to Truth God has revealed to us in the Scriptures. We are also sinners who have experienced God’s grace in our lives. We know we are summoned to be instruments of God’s grace in our society. Holding to both grace and truth, however, stretches the soul to the limit. People who are strong for Truth may do so at the expense of grace. (They have the smell of gun smoke about them). People who love grace sometimes do so at the expense of Truth. (They tend to say little about the “hard truths” to those on their way to Christ). Yet, if we are Christ’s men and women, then like our Teacher we must embrace both grace and truth in our lives and service.
That strikes me as a supreme challenge for faculty, students and graduates of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. We must be committed to God’s revelation and yet be exhibits of God’s love in our society.
Under the Mercy,
Dr. Haddon Robinson
President
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