But seriously, what is the definition of a Reprobate? Let’s just dive into the “MARROW” of the matter. First, do we understand the Doctrine of Total Depravity (and did Andrew Fuller believe in it.
I'm not sure who 'we' are here. I understand it and Fuller most certainly understood it; that all men are fallen in every respect, and they will not receive the Gospel unless God opens their hearts to do so.
Indeed, Fuller claimed himself a Calvinist, so what was his gripe with the Doctrine's of Grace?
Fuller did not have a gripe with the Doctrines of Grace; he absolutely believed in them.
Where did he get the is beliefs and then promote them to Calvinist churches? What must the faithful members of those churches must have thought… God, does that get factored in?
Fuller got his beliefs from reding the Bible, and also the works of Jonathan Edwards and various Particular Baptists like Benjamin Keach and John Bunyan. As I have said, he challenged his opponents to show Hyper-Calvinist teaching in Baptist churches before 1700. No ne could do so. He was not alone in this; he joined with other Particular Baptists like William Carey, John Sutcliffe, Samuel Pearce and John Ryland the younger. Together, they were instrumental in bringing about the Second Great Awakening in Britain between 1780 and 1820. Carey, of course, went to India as a missionary and became the spiritual ancestor of the 67 million or so Indian Christians today.
The large majority of the churches were revitalized by the preaching of these men, and many new churches were planted. Inevitably, there were some who took a different view, but most Hyper-Calvinist churches have died out in Britain, leaving just a tiny rump of 'Gospel Standard' churches today.
Now, listen up. Look at John 6:37.
"All that the Father gives Me will come to Me........" There is your Calvinism, your predestination. God the Father has given to the Son a vast crowd of guilty sinners to redeem, and He will save every one of them (John 6:39; 17:2). But there's more.
".....And the one who comes to Me, I will by no means cast out.' Everyone who comes to the Lord in repentance and faith will be saved; everyone! So we are commanded to preach the Gospel to every creature (Mark 16:16). We are commanded to plead with and implore sinners to come to Christ (2 Cor. 5:20). Why? Because God will have it so.
'For since in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the word preached to save those who believe' (1 Cor. 1:23)
Now, there is a preaching that should only be done by those gifted to do it. But there is a Greek word
laleo which means to talk or to chat, and this word is translated as 'preach' several times in the KJV and NKJV. This is a 'preaching that can and should be done by all. If you read Acts 11:19-21, you will see that ordinary Christians chatted about the Gospel, at first only to Jews, but then to others also, and that was how the great missionary church in Antioch was founded.