I really appreciate our brothers heart exhorting us to live out the gospel in serving others as servants of Christ through finding ways to proactively demonstrate selfless care for them. That effects people. But I also see that we need to make the message known. Honestly, I see both in Scriptue and don’t think we can neglect either. That is when we run into trouble, we emphasise one over the other.

Hey, God bless you all. As we follow our Lord and He will lead us along!

I hold to the same view as, say, John Piper; and he has done a better job of defending it in his writings that I could. So I’ll leave what he has said as my defense. I suppose that’s the easy way out, but that’s all I have the time or energy for right now.

But hyper-calvinism and calvinism are not the same. Hyper-calvinism is a techinical term and has a technical definition….I can’t remember it all word for word, right now, but you can find it if you look. John Piper, MacArthur, James White, etc., etc., all say that, and deny that they are and they give support for that. As a matter of fact, just recently on James White’s blog he has gone into that. Look into the last couple weeks archive on his blog, and you can see his defense of that, from that accusation (hyper) made against him from the John 3:16 conference in ATL.