Anything that detracts from the primacy of the bible.

Anything that would would be seen as making up for supposed limitations of biblical teaching.

Anything that would be used to replace the efforts of the Holy Spirit in drawing people to Christ.

Anything that would attempt to fill the God-void in ones life with pop-psychology and worldly wisdom.

So much has been written in supporting these new ways (fads) of reaching our post-modern culture. I am sure there were fads that were used in the past for this purpose that have long since faded away. The only certain thing that is of God is His Word which will outlast any fad.

His Word stands alone.

Regards,
Tim

Really? Care to quote him to that effect?

In point of fact, Calvin did not believe that.

However, this thread isn’t about Calvin’s views on baptism, government, infant salvation, or whatever. See the link I already posted, where I explained exactly what I mean when I accept the label “Calvinist.”

Future comments need to be about the actual material in the above post, or I will ask moderators to delete them.

Thank you.

I am not a Benny Hinn fan. Its just that I am glad we live in a land of freedom you can be wrong about the Trinity and not be burned at the stake.

Keith

PS Have any of you heard the Twisted Sister Christmas CD?

Your blog invites me to leave a reply. That is why I did leave a reply in this public forum without contacting you personally first. I thought you wanted me too.

We agree on many things I am sure. I believe,like you, that God’s purposes are being fulfilled and will be fulfilled perfectly in the end.

I believe God will save all humans He wants to save.
He will be merciful to whom He wants.
He will harden whom He wants.
He is soveriegn.
He has the power and the wisdom to draw all men unto himself.
If He is lifted up He will do just that.
He is the Savior of the WORLD after all.
The gospel is GOOD Tidngs of GREAT JOY which shall be to ALL people.
He will use me, you, Hybels, MacArthur or a donkey to speak His word and accomplish His will.
What is God’s purpose; His will?
The Lord is not willing that any should perish.
His will be done.
He wants everyone to repent.
Amen.
God desires all men to be saved.
God is merciful to all.
God is not pleased with the death of the wicked.
He wants them to turn and live.
God can do all things.
With God all things are possible.
God does whatever He pleases.
God will bring all things into subjection to Christ.
God will reconcile all things in Christ.
God will bring to acquittal and life to all persons through Christ.
As in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
Love Never fails. God is Love.
God will not cast off forever.
God is Love.
God’s tender mercies are over all His works.

God does not forbid: opinion polls, public relations, salesmanship, merchandizing, and customer satisfaction.

God does not forbid: The culture and the study of marketing techniques, opinion polls and listener responses helping preachers to preach.

God does not forbid: Adapting our message to the preferences of the audience, or risk having them reject the message?

I say use all of these tools without excluding the Bible.

No, Paul told Timothy: “But you . . . fulfill your ministry.” “Preach the word! . . . in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.”

That is what we are called to do as pastors. True

But fads and fashions of our culture are not wrong in and of themselves.

What Fads are you talking about that are wrong?

Which fads and the programs are killing the evangelical movement?

If you are just trying to say preaching the Bible is more important than DRAMA, MUSIC, and THREE PC SUITS, I agree.

Maybe Hybels needs more Bible Preaching than skits. OK. Keep on praying for him. And so will I. Rebuke him, reprove him, admonish him, exhort him…etc And I’ll pray for you too. I have sure learned alot through GRACE TO YOU.

I am hoping not for the death of the fad-driven churches, what ever a fad-driven church is. I am hoping that churches will all grow and mature. I hope I live long enough to see that.

Who are the fad driven churches?
What are the bad fads?
What sins do you want them to repent of?

Keith

This was hilarious, considering what Benny Hinn said about the Trinity:
“God the Father, ladies and gentleman, is a person and He is a triune being by Himself, separate from the Son and the Holy Ghost… See, God the Father is a person, God the Son is a person, God the Holy Ghost is a person; but each one of them is a triune being by himself. If I can shock you and maybe I should, there’s nine of them! What did you say? Let me explain. God the Father, ladies and gentlemen, is a person with his own personal spirit, with his own personal soul and his own personal spirit body. You say, I never heard that! Well, you think you are in church to hear things you heard for the last fifty years?”

Having said that, they all agreed on what are called today the Doctrines of Grace, the aforementioned TULIP. John MacArthur aptly renames them: Total Inability (to get to God on our own merits), Actual Atonement (those who are saved), God’s Effectual Call (those whom he calls respond like Lazarus coming alive from death – a dead man can’t respond unless he is called by God). Perserverance of the Saints is the doctrine that one cannot lose their salvation that God has called them to because He will not lose anyone from His hand.

The Doctrine of Election is difficult because it is a paradox, but it is Biblical (read Romans 9). It was difficult in Paul’s day as well, because after stating it he goes on to say, who are we to question the way God has decided to do things… There are things we cannot understand like why did God choose to love Jacob and hate Esau; the virgin birth; the trinity. But just because we cannot totally understand them doesn’t make them not true or not from God. In fact, the more I study the Scripture, I come to believe that just in the fact that I cannot understand some of the paradoxes I find says more about how they are from God. If I could understand everything, the doctrines would be man-made. Who can know the mind of God? How unsearchable and unfathomable are His ways.

All that to say, if the Word was consistantly taught from the pulpit, maybe we would learn to study it on our own and know it and be able to pass it on.