Hi, I'm Jonathan Lehman.

I'm Mark Devere.

And welcome to this episode of Nine Marks Pastors Talk.

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Mark, this is the pastor's talk episode where we discuss the content of the brand new

just released, at least when this recording is released, Nine Mark's Journal.

And this one is called Ecclesiology for Calvinists.

And since Sam Amati played a crucial role in conceiving of this journal and then helping

to edit it together with me and Alex, I thought he would be a great addition to our conversation.

What do you think?

Yes, Sam would be marvelous to have us part of this conversation.

Hey, Jonathan.

Hey, Mark.

Hello, Sam.

Pleasure here, brother. Sam, why are Hello, Sam. Glad you're here, brother.

Sam, why are we doing this journal on Ecclesiology for Calvinists?

We're doing it because in the last 20 or so years, we've seen a resurgence in Calvinism and reformed satirology.

So what we wanted to do was make the points of contact between our sotereriology and our ecclesiology a little clearer and show the influence that a Calvinistic soteriology has on the way that we has on the way we conceive church and on the way we conceive a philosophy of ministry.

So we're not talking to non-Calvinist friends in this journal.

No, we're not talking to non-Calvinists. This journal is not to convince non-Calvinist friends in this journal. No, we're not talking to non-Calvinists.

This journal is not to convince non-Calvinists of Calvinism.

And another thing that this journal isn't doing is we're not saying you have to be a Calvinist

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