The Antioch Declaration

 I’ve read the Antioch Declaration. I’ve also listened to Jon Harris’s podcast on it. I understand some people looking in from the outside and not understanding all of it. But for those roughly within the Reformed world who have been following the conversations on theological, cultural, and political matters the past few years, I don’t understand what is ambiguous about it. And when you’re talking about a whole host of young men within this movement, I don’t see why individuals need to be named. 

As a side note, in the Reformed world we have a history of seeing the Gospel as categories of soteriology within systematic theology - justification, sanctification, etc. While those things are there in Scripture, they are how the Gospel is applied to individuals. The Gospel itself is God saving the world - not just Jew, but Gentile as well - through the work of Christ. “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself”. The Gentile is brought to God in unity with the Jew - see Isaiah 40-66, and Ephesians 2. This is the Gospel. Therefore, trying to set back up barriers between people groups on the basis of race or ethnicity is a denial of the Gospel. No amount of appealing to covenant or cherry picking verses from Scripture is going to change that.