It seems like I am writing too many eulogies recently. Nevertheless, I cannot let this one pass. Dr. Voddie Baucham was a hero of mine. His passing at 56 years old yesterday was a difficult and wearying event. He was a modern apologist and a man who spoke into our culture with articulation and truth. He helped me to see the truth and error of critical race theory. He warned that our church today is opening the door to a counterfeit gospel by embracing critical race theory. He claimed CRT was a rival religion and a different path to redemption. It isn’t just Dr. Baucham’s exposition of CRT that made me listen to sermon after sermon, but his glorious confession of faith and priestly call to embrace his (and our) God’s goodness.
One of his best sermons centered on the simplistic centrality of the gospel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfIvK1IeyAI&t=21s). It isn’t justice we are after but God’s goodness and mercy. A Son born of a virgin, clean of sin, fully God and fully man, Voddie pronounced the gospel, that our God laid our iniquity upon His Son so that the righteousness of Christ might be imputed to us. We are saved and sanctified by Jesus and we now bear the family resemblance. That is the Gospel and that is the heart of Voddie! He will be greatly missed by the church.
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