I believe in the sovereignty of God, the Five Points of Calvinism, the Solas of the Reformation, I believe that grace precedes faith in regeneration. Theologically, I am Reformed. Sociologically, I am simply a Christian – or at least I want to be. The tricky thing about our hearts is that they can turn even a good thing into an engine of oppression. It happens when our theological distinctives make us aloof from other Christians. That’s when, functionally, we relocate ourselves outside the gospel and inside Galatianism.

Read the rest: #10: Truly Reformed – Ray Ortlund.

I was reminded of Rich Lusk’s helpful essay, Getting the Galatian Heresy Right.

There are similarities to Lusk’s piece but it also contains some correction to Ortlund’s perspective.  I think Ortlund is right to see the flesh Paul attacks in Galatians as related to Reformed sectarianism (“it functions in our hearts as an addition to Jesus”).  But I think he would be better off using First Corinthians to make his point. Because Paul didn’t care about the Galatian heart function for circumcision; he just wanted to stop them from practicing it as anything more than an ethnic custom for those who were raised with it.  And he probably expected it to die out eventually among such people as well.