Paul's Passing Thoughts

“Here is my second point: if you purchase a booklet published by us titled, ‘It’s Not About Election,’ that booklet details Protestant orthodoxy calling for no assurance of salvation in sanctification. Once saved always saved (OSAS) is NOT a Protestant distinctive. John Calvin even called for a continual fear of condemnation among God’s people. Now, in this series so far, we have stated that there is one common factor in mental illnesses and depression in particular, what is that? Right, FEAR. But my precious brothers and sisters, church orthodoxy calls for fear of condemnation as a sanctification principle! Do you want to utterly destroy your family with spiritual gangrene? Make sure you don’t ever miss church.”

How Church Orthodoxy Produces Depression