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2009

Eric Alexander on a Heart for the Spiritually Dead

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08 Oct 2009

In 1984 Eric Alexander gave a series of addresses on the first three chapters of Ephesians at the Urbana. In the course of his description about the spiritual condition of man by nature he noted:

I can walk up and down the streets of Glasgow and see people who appear to be perfectly well-integrated. Many of them are quite happy. Most of them are extremely well off. But they do not know God, and my burden is that I can walk along the streets without a pang. We are wracked with pain when we see emaciated bodies in famine-stricken Ethiopia – and rightly so. God deliver us from hardness in that sphere too. But it troubles me that we seem to be more concerned about that than about people who are spiritually bankrupt, who do not know God and Jesus Christ. We need to develop a heart of compassion for those who are spiritually dead.

You can find the complete series of addresses on Ephesians below:

The Basis of Christian Salvation (Ephesians 1:1-14)
The Ministry of Christian Intercession (Ephesians 1:15-23)
The Nature of Christian Experience (Ephesians 2)
The Privileges of Christian Ministry (Ephesians 3)


About Post Author

Nick Batzig is the senior pastor of Church Creek PCA in Charleston, SC and an associate editor for Ligonier Ministries. Prior to serving at Church Creek, Nick was a pastor at Wayside PCA on Signal Mountain, TN. Formerly, Nick served as the founding pastor of New Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Richmond Hill, GA and as the editor of Reformation21 and the Christward Collective--sites of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. He frequently writes for Tabletalk Magazine, Reformation 21, He Reads Truth, and the Christward Collective. Nick was also the host of East of Eden, a podcast devoted to the Biblical and Systematic Theology of Jonathan Edwards. You can friend him on Facebook here and follow him on Twitter @nick_batzig

5 Responses

  1. Tim H.
    Reply

    Thanks Nick. Someone was saying recently (my pastor? I’m not sure) that we always go on mission trips to the poor. Why aren’t we knocking on doors at mansions?

  3. Nicholas T. Batzig
    Reply

    I certainly wish I had been. I don’t think there are any audio recordings available. Then again, who knows what Urbana has in their archives. I would call them to find out but am sort of tied up looking for other things. Perhaps someone else will contact them. Hint, hint, hint!

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