A bit of a “boogeyman” tone to the video, wasn’t there? It made Calvinism infiltrating a church sound like “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”.
I agree.
But to me, that is somewhat the reality that anyone faces when they go in among a group of professing believers and bring up passages like Matthew 11:25-27, John 6:25-71, John 8:43-47, John 10:26-28, Acts of the Apostles 2:39, Acts of the Apostles 2:47, Acts of the Apostles 13:48, Romans 8:29-30, Romans 9, Romans 10:16-21, Romans 11:1-8, Ephesians 1:3-14, Ephesians 2:10, 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14, 2 Timothy 1:9, Titus 3:5-7, 1 Peter 1:2, and many others...
They are charged ( at least sometimes ) with "infiltration".
In other words, certain passages are automatically "off limits" because they always end up causing problems.
To me, this is a far cry from the churches represented in the epistles, who embraced every word that came from Peter, Paul, John and the other apostles as having come directly from the Lord and were worthy of not only unrestricted examination, but of belief no matter what they said.
I'm reminded of the church that I grew up in, where the sermons were almost always topical,
and many areas of God's word, especially in the epistles, were never addressed.
As an example, my former pastor almost always skipped around and never read an entire passage through, nor did we ever read from passages like John 6...
Except for perhaps John 6:40.
In fact, it would probably be easier to tell you what
was presented to the congregation over the 25 years that I was there,
than it ever would be to tell you what
wasn't presented.
Sermons tended to revolve around the same subjects over and over, and no one ever asked questions that went any deeper than John 3:16, John 3:36, John 5:24, the "Romans Road", whatever was required memorization in the "AWANA" Pals and Pioneers ( or Chums and Guards ) books, 1 Timothy 2:3-6, 2 Peter 3:9, Hebrews 2:9, 1 John 2:2 or anything else that was in support of the church's doctrines.
Bible studies were, for the most part, not interactive and nothing was really open for discussion past a certain point.
The Bible itself was treated more like a high school or college textbook than what is described in Romans 15:4 and 2 Timothy 3:16-17.
To put it plainly, hardly anyone I knew of in all my years in the two churches I was a member of ( and the ones that they were associated with ), ever went any further than what the pastor did in their understanding of, and their beliefs about, the Bible.
... 
