Note: Others far more eloquent than I have probably expressed the sentiments below, but I do not write out of a sense of the originality of my thoughts, but because these issues have been weighing on my heart.
I fear that the Reformed church is far more in danger of being Christian in name only than any other. Calvinism has become a philosophical system to be proclaimed from the pulpit or debated over post-sermon coffee, yet seems to have little bearing on the lives, thoughts, actions, ambitions of its disciples. Granted, my experience with the Reformed church is limited to a few churches within a few denominations, but what I have seen troubles me. It is so easy to point fingers at evangelicals for their abuses of worship, their false ideas of the character of God, their man-centered soteriology – but when it comes down to it, in the last day, will God commend an armchair theologian who has spent his days pondering supra- and infralapsarianism over an Arminian missionary who has brought countless souls to the foot of the cross? I don't know at what point a perverted gospel ceases to be gospel. I can't tell you whether the salvation that evangelicals believe in has enough of Bible truth in it to make them true Christians. But I do know that, in spite of their corrupted knowledge, they are doing what God has commanded His children to do, striving to be like Christ in everything, their zeal and humbleness unheard-of in Calvinistic circles. I long for Calvinists to embrace the living reality of their beliefs, to make their religion of the mind the more powerful religion of the heart.
More to come.
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The problem with us humans is that we take advantage of goodness of God, most Calvinists use their belief in the sovereignity of God as an excuse for their unproductive lives and this destroys the dynamics of election that is so full of life. While the West still debates over "Calvinism" and revels in their Christian tradition the world is deprived of the true Gospel. For days I thought the Bible was all about TULIP but I was mistaken because it is Christ who is the key to the scriptures and then I discovered the dynamic part of election that is so different in fact the opposite of fatalism. Election fires you to die for the Gospel of the Lord who never lets you go. I hope that God will raise a new generation of Christians who destroy the heresies within the church and champion the cause of the true gospel.
Today the televangelists dominate the scene with their charismatic approach and their disregard for the truth but I completely believe that this is the last phase of heresy and in due time God will pour out his truth upon all flesh and people with guard the gospel with their lives and kill perversion.
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