Featured What does MacArthur think of non Reformed?

I would agree but I would change one word- I'd change "accompanied" to "guided."

The mind ought to tell the heart how to feel; the heart should not tell the mind how to think.

Facts and truths are stubborn things. Emotions do not discern them- the mind does.

 

Doesn't bother me what Neo-Doctrine of Pre-selected Gracers call themselves.

 

And that is a mistake my dear brother in Christ that you need to correct. Try reading the Golden Books 1st then graduate to the Institutes. I say this in all love for you as I esteem you as a man with a well developed mind. By NOT studying Calvin you rob yourself of a very rich source of spiritual quality. Even if you do not agree with him you at least can say you understand his position.

 

I addressed easy believism in a bible study with Methodists on Saturday @ a UMC. These folks do not believe that being born again is a prerequisite to salvation thus it becomes a works based system (very similar to the RCC's). Therefore my brothers, while we view the Charismatics as apostate, think about including the main line churches to your list for evangelization.

 

I am Rippon and I approve of the foregoing.

 

What is to feel sorry for if we were predestined to be such? You should be rejoicing God chose us to believe it.

 

John MacArthur is not Reformed. He is a Calvinist but he is not Reformed.

 

Specifically, he's affiliated with the nondenominational 'Independent Fundamental Churches of America'.

 

You define Reformed then by what......Covenant Theology & DoG?

 

Who cares ...

... what John MacArthur, Charles Stanley, Chuck Swindoll, Tony Evans, David Jeremiah, or anyone you care to name thinks about non-Reformed, Muslims, Charismatics, chocolate, pink polka-dot quilts, or any other number of topics that regularly come up on similarly titled threads around here?

These are M-E-N, no one special, no one of great significance, other than all are good teachers -- though I'm not a big Mac fan. I don't take my lead to have an opinion from any M-A-N. I take my opinions from God's word, and what He reveals to me about it. That's all Mac, Stanley, Swindoll, Evans, Jeremiah, etc., do as well. They just have radio shows and television shows that allows them to express those opinions on a wider basis that I can.

I listen to them, I consider them, many times I applaud them. But let them be my guide? No. Jesus is my guide. It is His opinion I value. I consider the rest, but if they don't line up, I reject them.

Me? I could care less about Reformed, non-Reformed, Catholic, Charismatic, IFB, etc. I'm a Christian. I happen to belong to an SBC church because it teaches what I consider to be the word of God. If it changed pastors and doctrine, I'd be out of there in a heartbeat. I've done it before. I pray I don't have to do it again.

 

In all honesty.....I do! I was very sinful in driving Tom Bryant crazy in my religious pronouncements & I did apologize to him specifically...... he just had enough of the pigeonholing activities that serve to divide us for which I was wrong-minded & I recant.

 

AMEN :applause:

 

From a Baptist perspective I define "Reformed" as belief and practice consistent with confessionalism, covenantalism, and the doctrines of grace. John MacArthur believes in the latter only.

 

I'll eat one every now and then, had one yesterday. Wonder if these are any good?

http://www.businessweek.com/article...big-mac-clone-becomes-even-more-of-a-knockoff

 

Wow. Didn't even think about what I was typing there. But whether you take it in its context, or this out-of-context appearance, both are accurate.

:thumbsup:

Don't know, and never will. I'm not a fast food consumer, unless you're talkin' Back Yard Burger.



Back Yard Burgers website

Now that's a burger! Or several great ones, actually.

 

Ate there once a long time ago, used to be three in our area, they all went belly up (pun intended) only a year or so after opening. I'm currently partial to the "Flamethrower" Burger from Dairy Queen.

 

NAILED IT!!

 

Dr John would not fit the label of Reformed, as He is like me, a calvinist whose teachings also sprinkled with Dispy theology!

Would probably view them as I would, as basically sound teachers/pastors, who have some areas of theology disagree with!