I’m sure these issues will come around again, probably soon.

No Calvinist should complain that he’s not well received in other churches, be they Southern Baptist or whatever. WHAT are they doing in our churches anyway? We don’t want their doctrines and they don’t want ours. As far as our churches go, Calvinists need to mind their own business, like the other Christian cults do.

2 Pet 2:1-3 explains Calvinists in our churches….

I simply shared my very “personal” experience…

It was not my intent to demonize non-Calvinist in anyway, I have many non-Calvinist friends in the SBC (those who believe somewhere between 1 and 4 point of Calvinism). I was simply trying to draw attention to truth that many Calvinist Pastors have quietly been suffering an unjust and ongoing persecution in the SBC at the hands of those who are aggressive and belligerent Anti-Calvinist.

Brother David, it has broken my heart to see what has been done to some of the most humble, gracious, and kind men of God in the SBC; all because they dared to believe what they found in the Scriptures and what their forefathers believed. Yes, I know there have been Jerks among us Calvinist and I really have no sympathy for them when they have gotten the boot, but for every Calvinist Jerk that lost his pulpit, I know a dozen who were not Jerks and did not deserve to be treated with such hostility and disrespect.

Grace Always,

Greg Alfords last blog post..Voddie Baucham on The SBC and Calvinism

It hard to believe that God was Sovereign to Mr. Calvin when in his opinion (judgment) of the Word at John 6:29, he says, “First, it is plain enough that Christ does not speak with strict accuracy, when he calls faith a work, just as Paul makes a comparison between the law of faith and the law of works,” (See Calvin’s opinion of the inspired Word of truth by Paul at Romans 3:27.)

Unlike Pilate, Mr. Calvin saw fault in the Word (Christ), and reformed (corrected) it/him to fit a faith of his own (that faith ‘is not’ a work to be accounted as merited by a man and rewarded). (See Abraham at Gal 3:6/James 2:23 and Heb 11:6)

Anyway, Calvinism isn’t called the “reformed” faith for nothing. I for one refuse to have my faith (the Word of God) reformed (corrected) by any man.

As for a decline of membership or attendance in our churches, it seems that Christians today are in hiding, and ‘people in general’ simply don’t want to go to church. More signs of the times….?

But pastor, you’re right, just preach the gospel of God to all the people you can, as if they’re all your children and you love them and want them all to have eternal life with you and the Lord, and I’ll bet you’ll be called a faithful servant.

How many people have great truthful things to say but are tuned out by those who need to hear it because of their presentation?

As a Calvinist myself, I must admit that I am guilty of being too loud at times. I must be careful in the future not to come across to others as you have come across to me in this thread.

Thanks,

CC