How does somebody like me answer this question? Covenant child. Child of the manse (so to speak, never lived in a manse). Reads other views, hears other views, of salvation, of eschatology, of covenant, etc., reflects, rejects, buys the truth and doesn't sell it. Not my doing, mind you, not my power.

Guys, I honestly don't know what it is like to come to Reformed theology. That's not a bad thing. I know a lot of you would like that to be your own story. But you will always have something that I don't really know--the light breaking in and dawning. Your sons and daughters will many of them have my experience--of growing up in a theological house already built.

By the way, Paul Manata has great testimony of rejecting the only Christianity he knew about--a synergistic, broad-minded nothing--as being nonsense. Then being confronted with a full-orbed Reformed theology with a sovereign God, and knowing right then he had come in contact with the truth--by the H.S. of course--the only way he could possibly see what he could see.

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Rev. Bruce G. Buchanan
ChainOLakes Presbyterian Church, CentralLake, MI


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