HUMBLE CALVINISM
By JA Medders
The Good Book Company. 162 pages. £7.99
ISBN 978 1 784 983 727
Calvinism has often been used as a theo-logical stick with which to beat opponents or as a source of high-handed priggishness because ‘we know God has chosen us’ – with an emphasis not on God but on us.
Such ghastly behaviour is found in both the past and the present, and has driven many sincere Christians away from Reformation truth rightly holding their noses and saying ‘it stinks’. This book is a very welcome corrective.
The re-emergence of heavy shepherds
What would you think if you received a letter from your church leaders that read like this? ‘Are church members …