Featured Preparing a Truthful, Calvinistic Sermon (by a Calvinist)

Which only proves you are completely ignorant of what Calvinism is and what a Calvinistic sermon looks like. Let me help you there.

A Calvinistic sermon focuses on the sovereignty of God, the holiness of God, the sufficiency of the Word of God, the sinfulness of man, the saving power of the Gospel, and most importantly, CHRIST! A Calvinistic sermon calls on the Christian hearer to take action. It calls on the sinner to repent and believe. The Calvinistic sermon does not concern itself with preaching to the elect. Why? Because who is elect (or not) is known only by God. God has ordained the means of salvation (the preaching of the gospel) and the Calvinist preacher has no greater joy than to be used to preach that message. The idea that a Calvinistic sermon must somehow mention TULIP or "the elect" in every sentence comes from your fanatical obsession with all things Calvinist. You have created a Calvinist Boogeyman that exists only in your fertile and misguided imagination.

 

And the only reason you and your cohorts are in this thread is because Squire closed the other one. You are like a moth drawn to the flame. You cannot help yourself.

 

Incorrect. To you a Calvinistic sermon must mention Calvinism either by name of doctrinal distinctive. To the Calvinist preacher every time he preaches it is a Calvinistic sermon for the reasons I have previously stated. You cannot see it because you are blinded by your anti-Calvinist obsession. Just look at your signature line. You cannot help yourself.

 

Do you even know how to preach? Do you even have the slightest idea of what it is to exegete a text?

I absolutely 100% concur that not everyone is elect. That is fact and I know it galls you, steaver, and few other board members I will not even waste my breath naming. But just because I know only the elect will respond to the gospel call, I am not going to focus my preaching on those whom God has not called. That knowledge is withheld from me. Only God knows those whom He has called. I plead with those who hear my words to believe because maybe, just maybe, God is calling them to be one of His sheep at that moment. Can you not get that, or is your skull so thick from anti-Calvinist mania that you are incapable?

 

I am glad you commented in this thread. It proves how tone deaf you are.

 

To those who have the common sense to listen with their mind and not just their ears:

Every sermon a Calvinist preacher preaches is a Calvinistic sermon. Every single one. Why? Because the Calvinist believes that the sovereignty of God is inherent to every part of biblical truth. The simpleton argues, "That cannot be a Calvinist sermon! Where is Limited Atonement? Where is Total Depravity? Where is the damnation of the non-elect?" They argue that way because of their blind hatred for Calvinism and their inability to understand that which they hate.

If I were to preach on the love of God I would preach it from a rabid Calvinist heart. I would tell those gathered that we love Him because He first loved us. I would extol God for having blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, in Christ. I would call to memory His love in providing us with food, drink, clothing, and shelter. I would praise Him for such a great salvation through Christ, who died for His sheep.

If I were to preach on holiness I would explain the holy nature of God and how we are to "be holy as I Am holy". I would implore those in attendance to put off the old man and put on the new man; to be holy in all their behavior. I would encourage them, that even though they may fall into sin, they need only repent - confess their sins - and they will be restored into fellowship with their heavenly Father.

If I were to preach on forgiveness of sins, I would not launch into a soteriological polemic on supralapsarianism. I would not say, as others have accused Calvinists of in a mocking tone, that if they are non-elect they will burn in the fires of hell. What an evil thing to say even in jest. No. I would preach Christ and call on sinners to repent and believe. What hope do I offer them if I tell them it is impossible for them to do so? If they do repent and believe then that is proof enough that they are numbered among God's elect. Is the Calvinist preacher in the position of God, to determine who is able to be saved? Perish the thought! May God grant mercy and forgiveness to those who believe so or who even joke about such a thing.