Interesting the way Calvary Chapel keeps surfacing in this thread (all the way back to the OP). Their theology is purportedly "balanced," but results in a strongly anti-Calvinist Arminianism (they still sell Bryson's anti-5 pts. book and offer his tapes although Chuck Smith attempts to strike an irenic position for non-Calvinism or a "balance" between the "extremes" of Calvinism and Arminianism, http://www3.calvarychapel.com/librar...ks/caatwog.htm). On the five points, 3 and 4 are clearly Arminian. Point 1 uses the language of "balance" but falls short of a Calvinistic understanding. On Point 2, they adopt the prescient view. And, finally, while they affirm "perseverance," their application of Matthew 7:21-23 washes away much of the meaning.

I guess if you view soteriology as dominated by my free will, it makes sense to have an ecclesiology to match.

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