How To Offend a Room Full of Calvinists [Calvinist Caucus]

Challies.com ^ | January 28, 2015 | Tim Challies

[mountn man]

SO...are you saying you’re not a Calvinist?

[aimhigh]

I was shocked to read a book by RC Sproul (Does God Control Everything), where he wrote, "Yet, in scripture, we never see God inviting people to come to Jesus."

Yet Jesus said, "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

I attended a Reformed church for years and finally asked the question, "If a non-believer came to our church, would he ever hear the gospel?" The assistant pastor who heard my question didn't answer.

[jonno]

I should also have included this par. as it get to the heart of the issue - how many of us struggle...

“So the agonizing question for some is: Do I really have saving faith? Is my faith real? Am I self-deceived? Some well-intentioned people try to lessen the problem by making faith a mere decision to affirm certain truths, like the truth: Jesus is God, and he died for my sins. Some also try to assist assurance by denying that any kind of life-change is really necessary to demonstrate the reality of faith. So they find a way to make James 2:17 mean something other than what it seems to mean: “Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead.” But these strategies to help assurance backfire. They deny some Scripture; and even the minimal faith they preserve can be agonized over and doubted by the tormented soul. They don’t solve the problem, and they lose truth. And, perhaps worst of all, they sometimes give assurance to people who should not have it. “

[CynicalBear]

>>Some also try to assist assurance by denying that any kind of life-change is really necessary to demonstrate the reality of faith.<<

Can you show where anyone made that claim?

[mountn man]

Maybe you 2 don't understand what caucus means???

Either that, or your just ignorant #*#*# who lack any integrity, and think your opinions trump house rules.

[Gamecock]

Gee. We hear the Gospel every, so single week in my Reformed church.

[mountn man]

Well, you can always start one.