Hello and welcome back to Sochiology 101. Help. I think my pastor is a Calvinist. I must get at least

one or two messages a week from concerned church members about their new pastor or a pastor of a church

they've joined recently or they're trying to discern whether they should go to this church or that church.

And so they're asking questions about whether a church is really Calvinistic or not and trying

to avoid that. I understand the concern here and I understand the desire for church members to

look for a church that teaches doctrine that they're comfortable with and obviously that they would

agree with. But what happens if you've been in a church for years and years and years and you've

served their faithful and all of a sudden a new young dynamic preacher comes in and you suspect

that he might be Calvinistic? What do you do about this? Should you do anything? You have a sincere desire to stay in the church,

to be a part of the church, to be a part of the fellowship, but you also maybe sincerely are

concerned about the direction of the church and the teachings of the pastor, especially with regard

to your own children. If your children are in the church, you don't necessarily want them to be

taught Calvinistic doctrine. And so you may have genuine concerns about those things. And so today,

that's what we're going to talk about. Again, I get this question quite regularly from listeners who

are tuning in, mainly because they searched online for how to answer this question or how to get help with

this. And that's what we want to do. And I want to do so fairly. I want to do so fairly to my

Calvinistic brothers. I'm not one of those raging anti-Calvinists that trying to throw all

Calvinists out of our convention or said that they're unbelievers or heretics or just any kind of just, you know,

raging lunatics or something of that nature.

What we need to understand is there's a difference between an actual claim of a theological

worldview and the logical implications of that worldview.

Let me explain what I mean by that, because oftentimes these get conflated and misunderstood,

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