Saved in a Calvinistic Baptist Church

[AustinC]

Spiritual lineage? He was locked up for being different! No one wrote books like The Heavenly Footman, Grace Abounding, The Pilgrims Progress, and The Holy War like he did! He was a unique soul! Calvin would have had him arrested!

No one is a Christian in a vacuum. The author to the Hebrews says this:

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
~ Hebrews 12:1-2

The great cloud of witnesses are our legacy in the faith who went before us as our mentors in the faith. Bunyan had his mentors, his cloud of witnesses, who were his spiritual fathers. Calvin was a spiritual father to Bunyan.

 

[AustinC]

When I got saved I would spend years reading The King James Version Open Bible the Freewill Baptist church gave me along with John Bunyan’s complete library at Virginia Tech. Loved the works! Let me read it again and bless my soul!

By all means, read Bunyan. His theology is that of all those who love the truth that God is entirely Sovereign over his creation.

 

[1689Dave]

Calvin hated the Ana-Baptist and would have had Bunyan burned at the stake as he did Michael Servetus.

Let's not bear false witness against Calvin. In his own words concerning Servetus;

"For what particular act of mine you accuse me of cruelty I am anxious to know. I myself know? not that act unless it be with reference to the death of your great master, Servetus. But that I myself earnestly entreated that he might not be put to death his judges themselves are witnesses, in the number of whom at that time two were his staunch favourers and defenders. But I have said quite enough about myself." Calvin's Calvinism Translated Henry Cole P-346

 

[rockytopva]

Well… As I don’t want to feed the spirit of the Laodicea church age I am up and off to church where the worship is not too bad. I do visit different churches as long as they are in the word…