Hello, and welcome back to SoTriology 101.

As you can see, we have a guest with us today.

This is Scott Mitchell.

He's a pastor with, remind me. Calvary Chapel of Boston. That's right, Calvary

Chapel of Boston. But introduce yourself to our listeners. I'm going to introduce them to

your book in just a minute, but let us know a little bit more about yourself, maybe your own

testimony and why you came to

write the book that you wrote, and just give us a little feedback on the story of Scott Mitchell.

Okay. I got saved in 1982, a long time ago, and I was right after that that probably a couple of months after that that the

Billy Graham crusade came by I went forward in that and actually then realized what had happened to me

so that's where my journey began and then as I began to grow through the 80s, probably one of the people that had a big theological

influence on me was Jay Verna McGee. I used to listen to him on the radio. And the thing that he

made a statement of was that at that time that I remember. He said he was a three-point Calvinist.

I had no idea what that was, but I was just growing in the Lord and learning.

And so as I started to get into more and more commentaries and then started to pick up books on theology through the 80s.

You know, I realized that there was something called Calvinism, something called Armenianism.

I went back and forth. You know, I love guys like Spurgeon. I would read Spurgeon, and I would say, well, how can you not be a five-point Calvinist?

And then I'd go read somebody else and say, how could people believe in Calvinism?

So I bounced back and forth for a number of years.

But then I got to the place really where I realized that I need to take what the Bible is saying to me.

Because in my everyday life and application, I can't read

that through the eyes of somebody else. And so I basically, I came to the place where I said,

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