blhowes
Puritan Board Professor
I'm curious how some of you would go about reforming a church that knows very little about the reformed faith.
I visited the baptist church that I had mentioned in another thread. I enjoyed the sermon (Psalm 84, "Thirst for Worship") and the opportunity to meet some of the people after the service.
The pastor of the church holds to the 1689 confession, but he's a fairly new (~ 1 year) pastor at the church. The church historically has held to the New Hampshire confession, but his take is that most folks there were never taught and therefore wouldn't know much about the 1689 confession, the New Hampshire confession, or the differences between Calvinism and Arminianism. He looks at his situation as an opportunity to change this.
If you pastored a church similar to this, how would you go about bringing reformation and introducing the people to Calvinism? Would you from the pulpit start preaching with 'guns blazing'...or would you follow a slower approach?
I visited the baptist church that I had mentioned in another thread. I enjoyed the sermon (Psalm 84, "Thirst for Worship") and the opportunity to meet some of the people after the service.
The pastor of the church holds to the 1689 confession, but he's a fairly new (~ 1 year) pastor at the church. The church historically has held to the New Hampshire confession, but his take is that most folks there were never taught and therefore wouldn't know much about the 1689 confession, the New Hampshire confession, or the differences between Calvinism and Arminianism. He looks at his situation as an opportunity to change this.
If you pastored a church similar to this, how would you go about bringing reformation and introducing the people to Calvinism? Would you from the pulpit start preaching with 'guns blazing'...or would you follow a slower approach?