Baptist Calvinists?

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Tom Ascol, Executive Director of Founders Ministries, author, and pastor, joins the Spin Crew for a riveting conversation on Calvinism in the Southern Baptist Convention. Are Calvinists and Baptists so oil-and-water after all? Tom speaks on why Baptists do what they do, and the Gang gets down to business asking some important questions: Are all southerners die-hard tailgaters or does Tom Ascol break the mold? And when will he retire to that Harley Davidson he deserves? But most important, will Tom reprimand our three hosts for leaving their Baptist roots? So much to discuss, so little time. It's another conversation that'll have your head spinning!If you have enjoyed this week's Mortification of Spin then you will benefit from The Five Points of Calvinism by Roger Nicole as a free audio download from The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. You can recieve your gift at Reformed Resources.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman,
0:23.8	Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird. Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing
0:30.2	Evangelicals. This week, the spinners take some time to talk with Tom Ascal, Calvinist in the Southern
0:36.3	Baptist Convention. Tom's decades in
0:38.8	pastoral ministry have given him a valuable perspective on church and doctrine, and his keen insights
0:44.2	are worth listening to. Stay tuned after to find out how to get a free audio message from the
0:49.7	Alliance of Confessing Evangel evangelicals.
0:59.0	Well, thank you for joining us for mortification of spin.
1:03.9	Of course, I'm joined always by my friends Amy Bird and Carl Truman.
1:09.6	And today, we're talking about a subject that is near and dear to my heart as someone who was raised in the Southern Baptist
1:11.4	Convention, someone who came to know the Lord in a Southern Baptist Church and heard the gospel
1:16.0	in a Southern Baptist Church and who still has a great deal of affection for my Southern Baptist
1:20.9	brothers and sisters. We're talking about Calvinism in the Southern Baptist Convention. And yes,
1:26.5	it does exist in the Southern Baptist Convention. In yes, it does exist in the Southern Baptist Convention.
1:28.5	In fact, Carl and Amy, I would dare say that many, if not most oftentimes, of the Calvinists' people meet these days, happen also to be Baptists, which is kind of a strange phenomenon.
1:41.0	I mean, you go to some of the big conferences that are typically reformed-ish, or at least committed to the doctrines of grace. And if you're a Presbyterian,
1:49.7	you're in the minority. Yeah, I was going to say in 2009, I was down at a conference,
1:56.6	speaking at a conference at a PCA church in Florida. And the only visitors from outside of the
2:02.8	congregation to that conference are actually Southern Baptists. So I remember thinking,
2:06.7	these people are not far from the Kingdom of God. Exactly, exactly. I was impressed.
2:10.3	Right. Well, speaking of Florida, we have a guest with us today. It's Dr. Tom Askell. Tom is the pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Cape
2:19.7	Coral, Florida. So those of you in cold climates, eat your heart out. Tom is also the founder
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