Is Calvinism All You Talk About?
Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers
Leighton Flowers
4.8 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2017
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Because Dr. Flowers has created a blog and podcast dedicated to addressing the issue of Calvinism within the Southern Baptist Convention he is sometimes accused of being imbalanced. This is an understandable perception if all you know of him is through his popular Soteriology 101 podcast, but this short video should help you to better understand Leighton's motives and ministry.
Here is the satire article Leighton referenced in the video called "That's Baloney Bee:" https://soteriology101.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/thats-baloney-bee/
Here are a list of the ministry websites Dr. Flowers oversees and works with on a regular basis:
www.texasbaptists.org
www.supersummer.com
www.youthevangelism.com
www.texasapologetics.com
www.syatp.org
www.soteriology101.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Layton Flowers. I'm the director of apologetics for Texas Baptist and a part of Sociology 101. |
| 0:06.0 | I wanted to take this time to answer some questions that people send to me on a regular basis. |
| 0:11.0 | That way I don't have to answer it over and over and over again through email or Facebook or Twitter, those kinds of things. |
| 0:18.0 | The first question I often get is, is Calvinism all you ever talk about? |
| 0:23.2 | And I can understand why people might ask that question, given the nature of this particular |
| 0:27.9 | blog and podcast. The second question I get quite often isn't, shouldn't you be worried about |
| 0:33.1 | evangelism? Does this really even matter? Is this issue even matter? Should you really even be focused on this |
| 0:40.4 | Calvinism thing? Don't we have bigger fish to fry, so to speak? Aren't there more important things |
| 0:45.3 | for people to be talking about? Again, another question I completely understand. And I probably |
| 0:51.7 | feel the same way if I was on the outside looking in as well. |
| 0:55.6 | So I want to bring some clarity to this and just simply explain a few things. |
| 1:00.1 | One, this is absolutely not all I talk about. |
| 1:03.4 | I take a few hours every week to put together a blog and a podcast over this particular issue |
| 1:08.6 | because, one, it's an issue that affected me pretty deeply. |
| 1:12.9 | My church, my home church split over Calvinism, and I was one of the Calvinists that helped split it. |
| 1:18.8 | One of my dearest pastor friends who I loved dearly, matter of fact, just saw him a couple of weeks ago at my home church and just hugged him and again apologized for splitting his home church, |
| 1:28.0 | the church he was in for 30 years. And it hurt my family and my brother's family and our |
| 1:34.6 | friends and the people around us. And so it's a hard issue. It was an issue that really |
| 1:40.1 | affected me. And I, as on the Calvinistic side of that debate at the time I really felt like I was |
| 1:46.8 | defending God's word I really felt passionate about standing up for what I believed the truth of God's |
| 1:52.0 | word was and now I don't believe that I was correct I felt like I made an error and so there's a |
| 1:58.2 | passion there and I ended up writing my dissertation on this subject years later after coming out of Calvinism. |
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