Thursday, June 25, 2009

How You Can Be Calvinist and Go to an Arminian Church?

I was searching through Michael Patton's blog and came across a great post on how he can be a relatively stanch Calvinist (complementarian) and go to an Arminian (egalitarian) church. The three main reasons he gives are,
1. Crossings (his current church) teaches the gospel and focuses on it.
2. Crossings teaches grace and does not divide over non-cardinal issues.
3. I am needed and used there.
He writes:
Would it be better if they were Calvinists? Would it be better if they were Complementarians? Sure, as long as they kept the grace. But, if I have the choice, I will never trade perfect theology (or nearly so) for grace. Grace is the Gospel. When you lose that, where do you go? Stay in bed.

You will never find the perfect church . . . never! There is no perfect denomination. There is no perfect tradition. There is no perfect church and there never has been.
Whole thing.

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