On today's program, we're going to look at how Francis Chan's Calvinistic sociology may impact his evangelistic methodology.

Let's dive in.

Hello and welcome back to Sociology 101.

Today we're going to be listening to a video clip from Francis Chan, who's a, I hate to call him a Calvinist because so little of anything he says sounds Calvinistic.

He's one of those, what I would refer to maybe as an inconsistent, low, or maybe even a nominal kind of a Calvinist in the sense that it really does not impact

much of his ministry, at least outwardly. He has tended to align himself with Calvinistic

theologians, but one has to wonder if, if like Rick Warren in the episode we did earlier,

where he's so amenable and cordial that he never

wants to disagree with whoever he's talking to. So a kind of a what you might call a

chameleon type of theologian that if he's with John Piper, he sounds like he agrees with

everything John Piper says. But if he was hanging out with me or some other, you know,

traditional theologian, then he would probably sound like them. I'm not sure if Francis has a lot,

Francis Chan has a lot information out there about where he stands with regard to the doctrines

of predestination, election, how he would exegete Romans 9 or Ephesians 1 or something of that nature.

One of the things I appreciate about Francis is a passionate preacher.

He is an evangelist at heart.

And we've used him at our events before.

And he's been invited to our events and been a part of what we do here in Texas Baptist.

And so a lot of positive things and good things

that I would say about him, just like I do John Piper and other leading Calvinist. But this clip was

sent to me by a listener just recently, and I appreciate those that send me clips and give me

materials to go through and to look at to see kind of how this trend is happening in our current

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