Horton Nails It!

If I were as brilliant as Mike Horton, and could write with the same eloquence he does, here is what I would have said regarding being "Reformed" in relationship to being "young and restless."

But since I am not and since I can't, here's what Horton says about the YRR movement.  Great stuff.  A must read.  The Hallway and the Rooms

Comments

[GPLeague]

Love WHI, love your material Dr. Riddlebarger, and love Dr. Horton's wise counsel. I'm a Reformed BAPTIST. London Baptist Confession of 1689. I'm NOT simply Reformed. Hence Evangelical Calvinist seems more precise. I appreciate his call to confessionalism and a church-oriented basis for the movement. I don't want to see it fizzle out over 2ndary issues.

[Charles L. Baker]

GPLeague: But Liturgy and the Sacraments are not "secondary issues". Anabaptist practice is repudiated by Anglican, Lutheran, and Reformed alike.

[pb]

Why can't we all affirm that we hold to the Doctrines of Grace as our common heritage and stop this back and forth? My .02

[Matthew Catalano]

Because the doctrines of grace do not define Calvinism anymore than justification by faith alone defines Lutheranism. I am Lutheran, and agree with the Reformed on the five solas, as well as total depravity. Yet I would never call myself Reformed. Both Lutherans and evangelical Baptists affirm sola fide; yet no sane Baptist would call himself a Lutheran. So why would a Baptist call himself Reformed? The doctrines of grace come from the Canons of Dordt, which is one document out of three, called the Three Forms of Unity. That Unity presupposes adherence to the Belgic Confession of Faith, which affirms infant baptism and repudiates anabaptism.

[Phil J. Johnson]

You write and speak as well as Mike Horton and more straight to the point!

[pb]

Matthew, point taken, however I think the impetus among many of those who seek the label Calvinistic/Reformed Baptist or the like is a desire to escape from the worst parts of the Baptist universe = liberalism in the American Baptists, revivalism and pietism in the other regions, etc. And I for one am heartily sick of disputing with essentially like minded brethren over all these secondary words!

[Steve]

I'm with Phil - you're probably one of the clearest and most informative speakers/writers I've ever heard/read.