I gotta chance to talk to some at the church we visited the last couple of weeks.
They said they are "just" calvinist, meaning that they are not hyper in the anti evangelical sense, nor are they lordship salvation as that can lead to trusting in works rather than in Jesus. "Just" calvinist.
The message was very evangelistic. The pastor made the point that the saved or regenerate can understand theology but that it is foolishness to the unsaved.
Then he told the unsaved all they needed was to know they were sinners in need of Jesus to save them, and to come to Him for salvation. (He HAD gone through the Biblical gospel, beginning with the diety of Christ). He told them they might not really understand, but if they understood enough to know they were hell bound and wanted to trust Christ for salvation that Jesus never casts out those who come to Him.
I really am starting to like this church.
They said they are "just" calvinist, meaning that they are not hyper in the anti evangelical sense, nor are they lordship salvation as that can lead to trusting in works rather than in Jesus. "Just" calvinist.
The message was very evangelistic. The pastor made the point that the saved or regenerate can understand theology but that it is foolishness to the unsaved.
Then he told the unsaved all they needed was to know they were sinners in need of Jesus to save them, and to come to Him for salvation. (He HAD gone through the Biblical gospel, beginning with the diety of Christ). He told them they might not really understand, but if they understood enough to know they were hell bound and wanted to trust Christ for salvation that Jesus never casts out those who come to Him.
I really am starting to like this church.