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Here’s the deal:
Tom Ascol of Founders Ministries received a memo. It’s a little hard to believe, but, it is real.
It’s a ‘memo’ designed to reveal Calvinists pastors in your midst. Wouldn’t that be a tragedy? All joking aside, this really is sad. Those proclaiming to be promoting the Gospel are looking to ‘snuff’ those who actually are!
Some of the signs to look for include:
- Focused on creating the ‘true’ church.
- Use of the ESV Bible
- Using as a statement of belief confessions like the 1689 London Baptist Confession
- A move toward elder rule
- A member of the Founders movement and attends meetings
“Yesterday I was sent the following 3 documents that have been circulating in Western Tennessee among some Southern Baptist Churches. It seems that they were distributed at seminars being held for churches to teach "how to find out if any of your staff are Calvinists and how to get rid of them." Since receiving them I have communicated with others who have verified that they are being made available to Southern Baptist churches in Tennessee, not by any official denominational worker, but by zealous people who view the doctrines of grace as heresy. I am trying to contact one or more of those persons in hopes of better understanding what has provoked this mission.
The first document is in the form of a memo and is entitled, "Reformed Red Flags." It contains a list of 16 "behaviors" to look for when seeking to smoke out Calvinistic pastors. Number 3 on the list is "use of the ESV Study Bible." Someone should alert Crossway immediately. Founders made the list, as did John Piper, Jonathan Edwards, RC Sproul, James White and the first Southern Baptist confession of faith (which is still used at Southern and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminaries, and which even the famous non-Calvinist Paige Patterson has signed), the Abstract of Principles.”
See the rest of this absurdity here.
I have an idea…How about all of the Calvinists get raptured and all the rest can then do whatever they want in the name of religion and we won’t be here to discern the problems with their heresy…? Yea, that’s the ticket…
Have you read Tom’s post? It’s absolutely unreal that anyone would come up with such a list!
Yea, I saw it. I had a guy the other day try to tell me he believed in depravity of man but not total depravity. This is fairly typical of man-centered thought but it makes no logical sense… being depraved is like being pregnant, you are or you’re not!
I’m not surprised at the memo. The devil is very active at weeding out as much wheat as possible and sewing church of the tares in every place possible. Soon, it will be hard for a Bible-believing preacher to find work. The hymn-loving music leaders were the first to go under the watered-down church paradigm and the Bible preachers are next. It is already happening.
The good news is God is still in charge and He will jerk a knot in the system when He chooses!
I’m beginning to think long and hard about being a Baptist these days.
No suprises.
You would think the Sothern Baptists would be more interested in smoking out cursing preachers, purpose-driven charlatans, contemplative prayer gurus, emergent cultists, neo-liberal revisionists… and etc. Nah, they are more interested in getting rid of people who hold true to the Bible. It sounds like ‘ichabod’ may be written over their door…
this is genuine. This has been going on in Western Kentucky for over a year.
why should a Calvinist preacher worry when everything is predestine..and we have no free will to reject them and their false teachings..
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