Should Anyone Say, ‘I Am of Calvin’?

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🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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As we sit under preaching in our churches, what matters most is not how eloquent the teacher is, but how much truth shines forth in his content.

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0:00.0	I am of Calvin.
0:07.5	Are we forbidden from making such a claim?
0:10.2	I am of Calvin.
0:12.6	Karen, a listener who loves DG and who recently was in the room with us in Nashville for
0:16.0	our first ever live recording together, asks it quite pointedly.
0:19.9	Hello Pastor John, thank you for Aspastor John.
0:23.0	And what ways is saying I am a Calvinist or I am of Calvin different than saying I am
0:28.3	of Paul or I am of Apollos as Paul warns against in 1 Corinthians 3-4?
0:34.2	Is it different?
0:35.2	It's an honest question for me and I hope it does not come across sounding like a personal
0:38.5	challenge.
0:39.5	It's not meant to be.
0:40.5	I thank God for you and you are reformed convictions and focus on God's glory, beauty,
0:45.9	and all surpassing worth.
0:47.7	Pastor John, what would you say to Karen?
0:49.8	Is the statement, this is my understanding of what's been asked, is the statement I am
0:55.3	a Calvinist different from the statements in 1 Corinthians, I am of Paul, I am of Apollos,
1:03.1	I am of Cephas, which Paul scolded as inappropriate.
1:10.1	And the answer is I am a Calvinist might be guilty of what they are guilty of.
1:19.3	It might be and that statement might not be guilty of what Paul is scolding.
1:27.3	So we need to see what Paul was really criticizing and how I am a Calvinist might not be sinful
1:39.5	the way some of the Corinthians were and how it might be.
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