The Straw Calvinist
Doctrine and Devotion
Joe Thorn & Jimmy Fowler
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The guys are nearing the end of their five part series on The Five Kinds of Calvinists, today talking about the "Straw Calvinist." This is the Calvinist that really doesn't exist. It's the "straw man" created by opponents of Calvinism through misunderstanding (most of the time) or intentional misrepresentation (much less of the time). They each take a turn addressing a popular strawman.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dr and Devotion, a podcast that explores Christian faith and practice from a |
| 0:18.4 | Reformed Baptist perspective. |
| 0:20.4 | My name is Joe Thorne, I'm the lead pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St Charles Illinois. |
| 0:24.3 | And I'm Jimmy Fowler, Elder Canda at Redeemer Fellowship. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, did you see what we got in the mail from a listener? Yeah, you know what? Jason Allen. what He's we're so close and he's such a fan that you think it's the same you think the Jason Allen that sent us cigar posters |
| 0:48.0 | Is is the same Jason Allen that is the president of Midwestern |
| 0:51.8 | Absolutely they've been wooing us for some time |
| 0:54.7 | to lead for the church conference. |
| 0:58.0 | No, I don't think that's true. |
| 0:59.4 | They're wanting us to take the main stage |
| 1:01.8 | and just report podcast. You know we're not main stage and just report podcast. |
| 1:03.3 | You know we're not main stage people. |
| 1:04.9 | No, no, no, no, they don't, no one wants us. |
| 1:07.7 | No, not mainstay. |
| 1:09.0 | So, but hey, Dr. President Allen, |
| 1:11.8 | thanks for those. |
| 1:12.4 | Thank you, thank you so much for those. |
| 1:14.4 | Or actually he, uh, he commented because I tagged him. |
| 1:17.5 | Yeah, I figured he would say, like, that ain't me. |
| 1:19.6 | No, he says, he said, he was like, hey, I appreciate your kind words, but no no it's not me so but thanks to |
| 1:23.9 | Jason Allen man we have great listeners and Jason is a good guy and sent us this |
| 1:27.9 | awesome cigar poster hey Jimmy you got yours yet I got no, you haven't given it to me yet. |
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