Although I would love for everyone to read Scripture the way that I do, I am content to live within the SBC under the doctrinal umbrella of the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 and to cooperate with my less-Calvinistic brothers and sisters who are willing to do the same.

We deny that this atonement results in salvation without a person’s free response of repentance and faith. We deny that God imposes or withholds this atonement without respect to an act of the person’s free will. We deny that Christ died only for the sins of those who will be saved… We deny that any person is regenerated prior to or apart from hearing and responding to the Gospel.

Although Calvinism is shrinking in western Europe and North America, it is experiencing an extraordinary success in China. The churches that follow Calvin are the third largest Christian grouping in the world. In China they hope to become the religion of the elite. Go here to read more.

Calvin500.org announces plans for a 2009 Quincentenary celebration of the birth of Protestant reformer John Calvin, born in 1509. There will be multiple conferences in Europe and the U.S., each of which will serve as an international, interdenominational, and interdisciplinary commemoration of Calvin’s life and work. The celebration will culminate with July 2009 conferences in... Continue Reading