In my commutes to and from work and to and from lunch today I am listening to Ed Stetzer's message at the Resurgence conference - Breaking the Missional Code. He had an interesting aside on penal substitution that I think is worth mentioning.
He mentions what many of us know - that there is a mad rush these days to deny or downplay the significance of penal substitution.
Curiously though, what many professing Christians find offensive in the penal substitution the "world" finds attractive. Stetzer offers the success of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as an example. He points out that even non-Christians find the sacrifice of Aslan for Edmund to be a very beautiful and moving thing. This is clearly an illustration of penal substitution, and far from being offensive to the culture at large, it resonates.
So why is it that professing Christians would be embarassed by the doctrine of penal substitution?
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