Welcome! Kevin, God bless you. I'm a baptist and even I agree that you made the right decision.[/quote]
HA! I'll bet that you're a Reformed Baptist!
Once I was in a conversation with the pastor I had at the SBC and I asked, "So, you might call yourself a Reformed Baptist?" He very quickly and adamantly replied, "No! I would say that I am a Southern Baptist who leans towards Calvinism" It wasn't long before I came to realize that a truly reformed person shows it in how they live, not whether or not they believe in predestination. Of course baptism is
and I have no doubt that a Baptist can be reformed. But after two years of sitting under his preaching I heard almost nothing that would give anyone a hint that he was a Calvinist. Not long ago I heard from a couple who left his church. At a church dinner he walked up to this couple and said, "So, you two have been going here for a while (a few months). When are you going to join our church?" The week after the boys and I joined the church I asked to come to a meeting. There I was shown a video and given one to take home. "Together We build" or something like that. The past two years the church has hosted a huge thing in the parking lot of their huge new church. It used to be held in a mall. It's called "Outdoor Extravaganza!" Retailers set up booths and sell four wheelers and outdoor supplies. That was probably the straw that broke the camel's back with me. Well, besides the fact that my theology had become so radically different.