{"id":17425,"date":"2023-05-23T12:45:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T12:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=17425"},"modified":"2023-05-23T12:46:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T12:46:16","slug":"a-very-strange-sound-in-our-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2023\/05\/a-very-strange-sound-in-our-ears\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Strange Sound In Our Ears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strange things \u00a0I’ve heard Reformed Baptists say:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We must believe like John Calvin, but evangelize like James Arminius!”<\/em><\/p>\n

“If it were not for Paedobaptism, I would be a Presbyterian!”<\/em><\/p>\n

“A church is at high risk of pastoral dictatorship unless more than one pastor is appointed.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Christians need the church like babies need milk…it is their nourishment for life.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Hyper-calvinists have no urgency to preach the gospel to dying sinners,” <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

said one while spending a day visiting with me in the sitting room, instead of urgently preaching the gospel to my neigbors.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“It is the unbeliever’s duty to believe on Christ, and the believer’s duty to obey the [moral] law!”<\/em><\/p>\n

“God wants you to come to Christ; the only thing keeping you from salvation is your unbelief!”<\/em><\/p>\n

“God will bring you under greater condemnation if you reject Jesus Christ as your Savior!”<\/em><\/p>\n

“There is enough virtue in the blood of Christ to save the entire world if they were to believe on Him!”<\/em><\/p>\n

“The 1689 is what unites us, brethren.\u00a0We are Particular Baptists!”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To borrow an expression from their champion, Andrew Fuller, the things they say are “a very strange sound in our ears”!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Strange things \u00a0I’ve heard Reformed Baptists say:<\/p>\n

“We must believe like John Calvin, but evangelize like James Arminius!”<\/p>\n

“If it were not for Paedobaptism, I would be a Presbyterian!”<\/p>\n

“A church is at high risk of pastoral dictatorship unless more than one pastor is appointed.”<\/p>\n

“Christians need the church like babies need milk…it is their nourishment for life.”<\/p>\n

“Hyper-calvinists have no urgency to preach the gospel to dying sinners,”<\/p>\n

said one while spending a day visiting with me in the sitting room, instead of urgently preaching the gospel to my neigbors.<\/p>\n

“It is the unbeliever’s duty to believe on Christ, and the believer’s duty to obey the [moral] law!”<\/p>\n

“God wants you to come to Christ; the only thing keeping you from salvation is your unbelief!”<\/p>\n

“God will bring you under greater condemnation if you reject Jesus Christ as your Savior!”<\/p>\n

“There is enough virtue in the blood of Christ to save the entire world if they were to believe on Him!”<\/p>\n

“The 1689 is what unites us, brethren.\u00a0We are Particular Baptists!”<\/p>\n

To borrow an expression from their champion, Andrew Fuller, the things they say are “a very strange sound in our ears”!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1018],"tags":[1232,1191,1210,1207,1198,1195,1224,1201,1202,1203,1204],"class_list":["post-17425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jared-smiths-bits-and-pieces","tag-baptist-history","tag-church-governance","tag-confessions","tag-denominations","tag-duty-faith","tag-eldership-plurality","tag-evangelism","tag-fullerism","tag-hyper-calvinism","tag-moderate-calvinism","tag-reformed-baptists"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17425"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17433,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425\/revisions\/17433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}