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Originally Posted by shackleton  When choosing between two churches, which would be better? A Baptist chruch that is dispensational but Calvinistic, they are heavily into Macarthur, good biblical, expositional teaching, pastor was a missionary to some former communist country and is a former Marine. |
Except when they preach about baptism, the nature of the covenant, Israel, the Church, law/gospel, sanctification, etc. MacArthur doesn’t pull it off well at times, so no guarantee that a MacArthur-wannabe will do any better. It’s very hard for a so-called expositional preacher to get it right in most cases if all they have are the five points of Calvinism to work with.
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Originally Posted by shackleton Or, a PCA church that is presbyterian in name only, very contemporary, church is not serious at all, people getting up in the middle of service to refill their coffee or get a bagel. The assistant pastor wears red snickers on the pulpit. However, both pastor went to Covenant and they are presbyterian.
I know someone at both. The PCA church is very people oriented, the Baptist chruch very teaching oriented.
The answers seems obvious, I guess, I just don't know if I want to go back to hearing about the "rapture" and who the Antichrist is all the time. |
Neither option sounds particularly attractive. The PCA guys sound like what the PCA is heading towards in general, esp. if the church has visions of more than 50 members.
BTW, what are "red snickers"?