It's time for the Soteriology 101 podcast, where God is most glorified by his love and provision

for all people. Welcome your host. The director of apologetics for Texas Baptists, an adjunct professor

of theology, and a local teaching pastor, Dr. Layton Flowers. Hello, and back to Sociology 101. A few things I want to

jump into before we dive into a response to Dr. Nettles from the Founders Ministry who wrote an article

titled Churches, Get a Calvinistic Pastor. And I wrote a blog article rebutting that, and it's got quite a bit of attention.

In fact, Dr. Nuttles actually responded to it in my comment section, and so I responded to that as well.

And wanted to kind of bring to your attention some of that back and forth here on the audio version,

because I was reminded by a couple of my listeners that they don't

necessarily follow the blog each day and they appreciate when I bring the information from the

blog over to the podcast and so that's what I'm trying to do today. So some of this may be

repetitive for those who follow the blog and read some of the articles. And if that's the case,

then you might be able to fast forward through this one or

just know that this information's already been covered on the blog if you'd like to go read that for

yourself before we dive into that just a few things I want you to be aware of one I want to thank

the patrons and those who are sharing the broadcast because apparently it's working in the first

15 days of July matter of fact it's not in the first 15 days of July.

Matter of fact, it's not even the 15th, is it?

I'm looking at 13th.

It's only 13th days in July.

And we have over 160,000 downloads of the podcast in this month.

And that totals to, I can't do the math in my head.

It's over 15,000 downloads a

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