Husband | Father | Lay Minister of SGBC in @scarbc1689 | Reformed Congregationalist of the Baptistic Variety | Graduate of @CBTSeminary
California, USA
Joined September 2013
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A fact that isn’t an endorsement:
Most people don’t care about plagiarism allegations. Plagiarism is seen as violating arbitrary conventions, not sin. A love of integrity is usually not seen as motivating these exposés, but low-hanging fruit to discredit.
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Heard this kind of stuff growing up in the egalitarian Reformed Church in America.
What changed my mind was simply understanding the context. Paul explicitly grounds it in creation, not some local problem.
Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa pastor Char Brodersen defends his decision to start ordaining women, insisting the prohibition in 1 Timothy 2 is not necessarily anchored in the creation narrative, but rather is a response to shenanigans by adherents of the cult of Artemis in Ephesus.
Last minute and a half is also very instructive, saying the "authority" that Paul says he does not allow women to have over men is an "abusive" authority, and that even men should not have it.
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At no point in this progression is Reformed actually defined:
Being Reformed is defined by the Reformed confessions.
The Reformed confessions are those received by the Reformed churches.
Reformed churches are those that receive the Reformed confessions.
Ad infinitum.
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These two books are crucial to a proper, historically informed understanding of congregationalism and of baptism as a means of grace.
A very good illustration of why things like continuity of institutions or leaders/bishops does little to prove continuity of faith and practice.
Major news out of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, the influential 9500-member Calvary Chapel church (CC) founded by Chuck Smith.
Pastor Char Broderson, grandson of Chuck Smith, announced on Sunday their intent to begin ordaining women pastors, in direct opposition to CC's distinctives.
A statement from the Calvary Chapel Association Heartland Regional Team describes these actions as "deeply grievous" and a departure from "from important convictions Pastor Chuck faithfully taught and modeled."
"As a regional team, we have serious concerns about the direction Costa Mesa has taken...Although disagreement over these doctrines does not, in itself, determine a person’s salvation, these are consequential matters of biblical interpretation, church order, and pastoral faithfulness.
We do NOT affirm the ordination of women as elders or pastors as biblically sound or consistent with the Calvary Chapel distinctives upheld by the Calvary Chapel Association."
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Dictionaries general and theological, diachronic and synchronic, clearly illustrate the semantic range of the word Reformed and that Baptists sometimes fit in it.
Any knowledgeable and fair-minded person know that the term Reformed has several legitimate senses, and that Baptists can fall under some of them.
The typical gatekeeping that happens just comes off as manipulating language for one’s own agenda.
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Any knowledgeable and fair-minded person know that the term Reformed has several legitimate senses, and that Baptists can fall under some of them.
The typical gatekeeping that happens just comes off as manipulating language for one’s own agenda.
Yep, I grew up Dutch Reformed, and in my corner of that world, no one meant Presbyterian when they said the word Reformed.
It's funny that the Reformed Baptist debate is a thing right now. On this recent episode with @TomHicks2LCF we discuss how the Dutch Reformed argue that Presbyterians aren't Reformed, and Presbyterians argue that the Reformed Baptists aren't Reformed.
Conclusion: Reformed Baptists are just taking third-wave bullying heat from the Presbyterians who are upset that the Dutch Reformed say they aren't Reformed.
Guys... It's in the name... Reformed Baptist... We are both Reformed and have the correct view of baptism... just accept it already.
Episode for your fun: youtu.be/aJIXjyDpYnA?si=QuHQ…
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Seeing ourselves as primarily Baptist rather than Reformed won’t stop outflow but rather enhance it.
Most don’t become 1689 to be more Baptist. It’s to be more Reformed. This is true of both baptistic and P&R inflow.
It’s that we’re the pinnacle of the Reformed faith.
He must follow conscience and I wish him well, but as usually it’s a case of a historically/theologically minded Baptist in a broad Baptist context skipping over 1689ism to go right to a big tent P&R context.
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On this Reformation Day, consider John Calvin’s teaching that the doctrine of worship is of comparable importance to the doctrine of salvation.
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You don’t have to be CN to know this is obviously correct.
The debate is rather in what manner God requires nations to acknowledge and obey him, as opposed to individuals or other collective actors.
All moral entities ought to acknowledge and obey God.
The nation is a moral entity.
Therefore, the nation ought to acknowledge and obey God.
"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will."
~George Washington
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All collective actors held morally accountable by God are moral entities.
All nations are collective actors held morally accountable by God. (see: Scripture)
Therefore, all nations are moral entities.
Many reasons for this.
One is that Lutheranism is foreign to most Anglophone Christians, which is why many go to Anglicanism instead.
Another is that theology is often a post-facto justification for denominational changes primarily motivated by other issues.
Watched a YouTube video where two Protestant pastors converted to Catholicism over primarily three things they found in the early church fathers that they didn't have as whatever brand of Protestantism they had:
1. Bishops
2. Altars
3. Real presence
There were some other things, but these were the major points of emphasis
Lutherans have all three
Why do people go straight to the "nuclear option" and become Roman Catholic? Are they just unaware that we exist?
Or is there a lot more they think Rome offers that we don't?
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