My Friend Hurts

Well, I go to write my next post for Tag Team The­ol­ogy, and it seems that it (and Think­ing Deeply) has been taken down. It is quite obvi­ous that Simon has also been hurt from the dia­log he has had with Reformed Chris­tians recently. His frus­tra­tion has led him to pro­claim the following:

“[Com­ments from some Calvin­ists] are exam­ples of the kind of stu­pid­ity from pro­fessed Chris­tians that make athe­ists com­fort­able with their atheism.”

I must say that of my short time of being a believer Simon has been of most encour­age­ment to me as Mark was to Paul (2 Tim 4:11). I remem­ber being in Pasadena, and he drove over an hour through traf­fic to come and visit me. He has taken an inter­est in my life, as I have his, and I am proud to say there are few believ­ers that I have such a high degree of respect for both per­son­ally and intel­lec­tu­ally. Let us encour­age Simon dur­ing this time.

No mat­ter how much we might dis­agree on doc­trine, there is a doc­trine that all of us can’t deny. God is sav­ing peo­ple to bring glory to Him­self through His Right­eous Son and Spirit to bring Him wor­ship. I hope that we as believ­ers can have our hearts set on Rev 7:9–10. When we keep our mind set on this task set before us then hope­fully we can all keep our call­ing into perspective.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great mul­ti­tude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peo­ples and tongues, stand­ing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands; and they cry out with a loud voice, say­ing, “Sal­va­tion to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.“
Rev­e­la­tion 7:9–10

Whether each us were saved through Calvin­is­tic or Armin­ian sote­ri­o­log­i­cal means, the fact remains that each of us are saved by the Lamb regard­less of our lack of wis­dom (1 Cor 1:18–31). Wor­thy is He to be praised!