He can drink with us, discuss politics with us, laugh with us, and whatever he wants, and the Calvinist message remains the same:
A guy walked out of a grave. That doesn't just happen. It means something.
There's a big, black hole in the Atheist chronology in 33 AD. There is no way around it. Something happened. Something incredible. Something without which History does not make sense.
A guy walked out of a grave. That's the Calvinist Gospel.
That's what we preach to atheists. That historical fact, in and of itself, has changed lives. Brought down empires. Re-written history.
And the atheist has to do something with that. His historiography just does not make sense without it.
What's your "gospel" again?
Oh, yeah. Something about beer being devil-drink and "if only you would just choose to believe".
Calvinists reject such a mindless "easter-bunny" Faith.
We say, Give them something concrete to believe in.
The Garden Tomb
January 21, 2002 and still empty.
Maybe you've heard of it.
It's the Gospel of Jesus Christ.