I’ll never forget my former pastor saying over and over; “Your doctrine must impact your behavior!” I later taught my students that belief – real belief – is lived out, otherwise it’s nothing more than a static affirmation of fact.

Some pastors do not believe this, and they have directly told me as much. I can’t say I understand that. Seems to me we only believe as much of the Bible as we practice.

On another note, I’m exactly where you are on Calvinism/Arminianism. That probably puts us in the most unpopular camp of all, you know! These two dead guys have an absolute strangle-hold on the debate that I believe is unhealthy.

Chris