...well, OK, imbibe moderately and purge the church rolls with SBC calvinists, I couldn't resist a great topic title.
Calvinists in a clamor at the convention seemed to focus on two things: 1. The resolution on , and (2) .
I'm not sure of the value of either of these, or if this is where calvinists would love to lead the denomination if they ever gained office and dominated trustee boards, both of which seem unlikely.
I would say concerning integrity in my church's membership that it is none of Tom Ascol's business, but if he had a church, I'd certainly favor him using integrity with his statistics, though the calvinists I've been around seem to be on a mission to empty churches. Perhaps I've been around the wrong ones.
I don't quite get my calvinist brothers keen interest in NOT expressing a view that abstaining from alcohol as a beverage is a good thing. One calvinist blogger seems to thrash it out in character under the main thrust that we cannot maintain a postion that opposes drinking because it is not just extra-biblical but anti-biblical. Dang...where has Steve McCoy been all these scores of years that baptists have been doing this...if we had only known...think of how "high" the SBC would be now if we had only figured this out generations ago.
I love the young bloggers but extra-biblical is a great hyphenated term, not always a concrete thing. I wonder if this young blogger, portion of his anatomy being pictured will have us in another extra-biblical mode next year? I can see it now...Resolution on Permanent Disfigurement as an Expression of our Freedom in Christ.