Featured Video: Why James White Is Sick of The Calvinist Club

Curious. If his reference is to the paper I just read, the reasons as presented there are an unhealthy pride of knowledge that puffs up, perhaps even to an unregenerating head knowledge that cannot save.

As for resistance to Calvinism, White himself seems to think it mainly due to drawing Calvinistic swords and gracelessly lopping off their Arminian ears. How badly did I misunderstand?

(Disclosure: I only read the paper once, not the recommended ten times.)

 

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My only gripe with Calvinists right now is their willingness in the SBC to align with other questionable Calvinists for the goal of forwarding Calvinism. Many Very fundamental Calvinists will align with questionable Calvinists. That's how we got J.D. Greear. Until recently, people like Macarthur were still backing liberal hack jobs like Matt Chandler simply because they agree on Calvinism. Beyond that, I like Calvinists.

 

Yes, one just has to chuckle at this tweet from Jared Longshore (Founders lieutenant to Tom Ascol) at the 2016 SBC Annual Meeting, showing they were supporting Greear against Gaines for President. Of course, a few years later, they turned Greear into the bogeyman LOL.

 

The only reason they turned against him was the fact he forgot he was a Calvinist as soon as he got elected Prez.

 

"Ignorant non-Calvinists" aren't to be blamed for what James White is describing in the video in the OP. What he's upset at was a Calvinist-on-Calvinist attack directed at some of his buddies.

You don't have to be an Arminian to be pigeonholed as one by the nasty sort of Calvinists, just look what they did even to Spurgeon:

The Spurgeon Library | The Ravens’ Cry

After Spurgeon preached to brethren "in a certain Ultra-Calvinistic place of worship",

"afterwards they all came round me professedly to know what I meant, but really to cavil and carp according to their nature and wont....After awhile, as I expected, they fell to their usual amusement of calling names. They began to say what rank Arminianism this was; and another expression they were pleased to honour with the title of 'Fullerism'; a title, by the way, so honourable that I could heartily have thanked them for appending it to what I had advanced. But to say that God should hear the prayer of natural men was something worse than Arminianism, if indeed anything could be worse to them. They quoted that counterfeit passage, “The prayer of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord'..."

 

They both liberals masquerading as moderates. Chandler is the most WOKE man in the SBC.

 

Piper seems adequate when preaching the Gospel, but his understanding and discernment socio-politically is virtually nil, which is a very bad thing for the church whenever such a church leader attempts to go there in the church.

 

So the op posts white complaining about calvies attacks on those who are not while at the same time doing the very thing white is talking about but acting as if it’s something completely different.

that’s the arrogance white was talking about

 

You can do a bit of research yourself. "Matt Chandler Woke" will get you there.
That in and of itself wouldn't make you woke.

 

Allow me to jump into the discussion. The Oxford Dictionary defines "woke" as, "[being] alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice." It is a hallmark of the Progressive movement. You want police reform and criminal justice reform, albeit from a right-leaning worldview. When needed, reform is good. Progressives do not want reform. They want to weaponize policing and the criminal justice system and use them against their enemies (anyone who is not a woke Progressive).

How does wokeness operate within the church? It runs the gamut from overt to subtle. There are churches that embrace the social justice movement minus the gospel. It is seen through pandering in weak preaching. It attributes sin to certain persons in the absence of evidence; i.e. you are white or Asian, so you are part of the oppressive class.

In the end it really is nothing new. Woke is simply the abandonment of the Word of God.