Pastor John recently led a Q&A with the students of Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia.

Here's a question from one of the students.

I was just wondering what are some struggles and hurdles that you feel like the, I guess

the new Calvinist movement still needs to overcome?

The new Calvinism, what if it is, you know, it doesn't have any borders to it in terms

of separation from the old, is filled with people at every level of maturity, which means

it's filled with people who are incredibly sensitive and discerning to the dynamics of

racial relationships and people who are stupid, absolutely ignorant and naive and bumblers.

We all can grow in our maturity in talking with other human beings like us and different

from us.

So there's room there to just grow in the authentic natural discernment of what makes another

person feel honored in talking to you, not a project or a specimen, right?

You're an Asian specimen.

I should know not to say that, right?

I should not make you feel like, I know why he's talking to me in the dining hall.

I'm his project, you know, I'm his specimen.

And mature people will know how not to do that.

And they're not easily definable features about a personality and about a strategy that

make that happen.

It's not like you can say, learn these five things and you won't ever make that mistake

again and make people feel like projects.

So that's a big deal.

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