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Why the Time Magazine Trumpeting of New Calvinism Is a Bad Thing Thabiti Anyabwile offers seven quick but good reasons on why we should react carefully to this article.
Driscoll's New Calvinism Paul Grimmond, writing for The Sola Panel, offers some interesting thoughts on Mark Driscoll's comments about the new versus the old Calvinism. Band of Bloggers Book Giveaways Timmy Brister has organized another Band of Bloggers event to be held at this year's Gospel Coalition Conference. He just provided a list of the free books that will be given away. Looks like it will be worth coming just for the books! Canada's Science Minister is a Creationist And so, of course, there is plenty of outrage. "Jim Turk, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, said he was flabbergasted that the minister would invoke his religion when asked about evolution." What I Can and Cannot Live With as a Minister Mark Dever has put together a list of "What I CAN and CANNOT Live With as a Pastor." "Let me throw out a bunch of different examples that are relevant to my particular situation: organs, female elders, universalism, altar calls, humor, multi-site campuses, drums, the KJV, stained glass, racism, infant baptism, no formal membership, sermons limited to 10 minutes, large and high pulpits, TV studio-like acoustics. My goal in what follows is not to give you a sacrosanct playbook, but to illustrate how I go about thinking through practical matters."
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Comments (4)
Mark Dever: 11. Infant baptism. I cannot live with infant baptism. Having said that, if I were the pastor of the only church allowed in Mecca, maybe... But even then, I simply lack the authority to admit someone to the Lord’s Table who has not been baptized. It is, as one said not too long ago, “above my pay-grade.” I have many dear paedo-baptists friends from whom I have learned much. Yet I see their practice as a sinful (though sincere) error from which God protects them by allowing for inconsistency in their doctrinal system, just as he graciously protects me from consistency with my own errors.......i dont think i have ever heard any one say that paedo -baptism is sinful?.......is all error in scripture then sinful?
I thought the Science Minister recanted (sort of). See http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090317.wevol0317/BNStory/politics/home
Heh. My church 1) has (or had) a female elder, 2) uses drums during worship, 3) does altar calls (sort of), and 4) doesn't have official membership.
I think our use of the term "elder" is somewhat atypical, though, in that we have "governing elders" who do behind-the-scenes stuff, sort of like a board of directors, and other elders who perform more visible ministry tasks. The one woman elder was a governing elder, or which there are maybe 5 or 6 at a time. (I forget how many). They're chosen by the current group of governing elders and serve a fixed term, after which they step down.
There's also a group termed the "apostolic council" that consists of people outside our church (and often not in the same city) who are tasked with holding the elders/pastor accountable doctrinally, ethically, etc. Their involvement is limited, but there are yearly reviews. IMO that sort of thing is very healthy for a non-denominational church that isn't integrated into a denominational structure.
Again Pastor Dever says that paedobaptists are living in unrepentant sin... What about 1 John 3:8: "Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning." If paedobaptists are sinning, are rebuked by credobaptists, and continue sinning, doesn't this mean that - they aren't saved? I'm confused about this.
http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/770_are_paedobaptists_unrepentant/