This text touches on one of the most important doctrines of the Christian faith: the eternal generation of the Son.
The average church member in our day—even in sound, Reformed, gospel preaching churches—has no clue what the eternal generation of the Son is. He cannot define it or explain what it is. He can't show it from the Scriptures or defend it biblically. Much less has the church member been sufficiently equipped that he may discern when the truth of it is upheld and when vital components of the doctrine are being undermined or attacked. Normally when the doctrine is mentioned, Christians become perplexed. They think that to insist on it is to engage in theological hair-splitting that has no practical relevance for life.
I say to the contrary: it has everything to do with life. It has everything to do with who God is. Our understanding of the doctrine of eternal generation (or lack of it) affects our understanding of the gospel as it has been historically defined and articulated by the true church of Jesus Christ. Nicene Trinitarian orthodoxy matters, because it grounds the gospel in the reality of who God is.
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Josef was raised in Ohio and was converted as a teenager by an unexpected intervention of sovereign grace. Immediately he took the gospel to the streets and ministered in the gang-infested neighborhoods of inner-city Detroit. Later he served as a full-time missionary to Mexico...
