Yes. Discernment comes when we recognize that Creation was made good, and also Creation is fallen. So everything is tainted by Sin, and we need the Spirit of Jesus to distinguish between what is truly good and what is a consequence of the fall. Another substack I read this morning was talking about sanctification, the process of becoming a disciple that embodies what it looks like to follow Jesus, and I believe that’s what is desperately needed in the American church.
David, I appreciate what you're saying, and agree with you on much of it. However, your assessment of the Dutch Calvinistic paradigm suffers from oversimplification. Shalom to you and your good work!
thanks to you my bro ... and of course it's over simplified ... it was one paragraph eh? ... but I just want you to know ... I've developed these critiques... had many in depth conversations with some of the best minds in the Neo-Calvinist world ... and they acknowledge what I'm saying as true... and I believe I can even point to where James KA Smith gives creedance to these problematics in his own trilogy. So ... having said that ... Can you give me at least a paragraph .. 4 sentences... on where my caricature (it is a caricature) is off? Thanks much for saying something.
Yes. Discernment comes when we recognize that Creation was made good, and also Creation is fallen. So everything is tainted by Sin, and we need the Spirit of Jesus to distinguish between what is truly good and what is a consequence of the fall. Another substack I read this morning was talking about sanctification, the process of becoming a disciple that embodies what it looks like to follow Jesus, and I believe that’s what is desperately needed in the American church.
David, I appreciate what you're saying, and agree with you on much of it. However, your assessment of the Dutch Calvinistic paradigm suffers from oversimplification. Shalom to you and your good work!
thanks to you my bro ... and of course it's over simplified ... it was one paragraph eh? ... but I just want you to know ... I've developed these critiques... had many in depth conversations with some of the best minds in the Neo-Calvinist world ... and they acknowledge what I'm saying as true... and I believe I can even point to where James KA Smith gives creedance to these problematics in his own trilogy. So ... having said that ... Can you give me at least a paragraph .. 4 sentences... on where my caricature (it is a caricature) is off? Thanks much for saying something.