TANC 2012 Conference: How Seventh-Day Adventists Rediscovered the Lost Reformation Gospel; 9 minutes
New Calvinism and 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
The problem is all inside your head, she said to me
the answer is easy if you take it logically.
I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free
there must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
She said it’s really not my habit to intrude
furthermore I hope my meaning won’t be lost or misconstrued
but I’ll repeat myself, at the risk of being crude
there must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
Chorus:
Just slip out the back, Jack
make a new plan, Stan
don’t need to be coy, Roy
just get yourself free
hop on the bus, Gus
don’t need to discuss much
just drop off the key, Lee
and get yourself free.
She said it grieves me so to see you in such pain
I wish there was something I could do to make you smile again
I said, I appreciate that,
and would you please explain about the 50 ways.
She said, why don’t we both just sleep on it tonight
and I believe that in the morning you’ll begin to see the light
and then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right
there must be 50 ways to leave your lover
50 ways to leave your lover…
The quandary is fairly common in our day: your spouse stinks, but none of their faults rise to biblical grounds for divorce. You’re stuck; there is no way out without losing your appearance of righteousness. But the problem is all inside your head, the answer is easy if you take it logically. I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free; New Calvinism is the key. Make a new plan, there is bound to be a New Calvinist church near you.
Take heart, the only standard is that your marriage, “looks like the gospel.” After all, love is not about verbs, it’s not about what we do, but rather a noun: Jesus, and what He has done. These New Calvinist churches pride themselves on having a building full of marriages that look like the gospel, and how that is accomplished is the key.
It’s not my habit to intrude, but ask your spouse the following question to conclude if the New Calvinist plan could lead to sanctified solitude:
Honey, do you believe that all obedience that the Lord values is the result of gospel contemplationism that results in a joyful mere natural flow of actions that Christ already accomplished for us while He lived on Earth. And if we try to obey God in our own efforts in sanctification, or out of mere duty, do you believe that equals works salvation and is not living by faith alone?
And if they say,
No honey, that’s ridiculous. It sounds like some kind of antinomianism to me.
I’ll repeat myself, at the risk of being crude: there must be 50 ways to leave your lover, but this is the only one you need. Such a rejection of the true gospel is why your marriage does not glorify Jesus….just get yourself free.
Sign up for “biblical counseling” at your local Reformed church where they believe any sanctification that is not by faith alone is an “abomination.” There is not much to discuss; eventually, the errant spouse will be placed in “redemptive” church disciple because it’s “redemptive” for those who don’t believe in monergistic sanctification. Once the spouse is “declared an unbeliever”—they have abandoned you “in their heart”—you can get yourself free.
Just slip out the back, Jack
make a new plan, Stan
don’t need to be coy, Roy
just get yourself free
hop on the bus, Gus
don’t need to discuss much
just drop off the key, Lee
and get yourself free.
paul
Unhealed Truth Warriors are in My Thoughts and Prayers this Holiday Season
The Dohse’s had a wonderful Christmas celebration yesterday. The siblings from both sides of the family gathered for Susan’s wonderful cooking, fellowship, and exchanging of gifts. For me, each Christmas has more joy as the balm of time and God’s word heals from the year that New Calvinists ripped my family apart in the name of the murdering mystic despot, John Calvin, their hero and their god. But of course, they are guiltless of such man-worship because, “We don’t agree with everything he taught.” And of course, you aren’t allowed to comment on Calvin unless you have read every word of his endless droning. Never in the history of the world have so many trees been sacrificed for a worthless cause.
Well, things are good for me now. The emotional pain that seized my soul during the first Christmas that I was separated from my family has since passed. A major factor in the healing was a wonderful gift from God named Susan who came while those who truly love me stood watch for my soul. Twenty-four years of our quirky season traditions were gone; things uniquely Dohse like pizza for Thanksgiving dinner—the memories thrown away like the morning trash for the sake of elder self-importance in the name of their god. Without a thought for the pain they have inflicted on a mass of souls, in the season midst, these brute beasts and their minions rejoice in their own plush “Christian” suburbia with their consciences long ago buried under the backyard swimming pool. Their evil road is paved by those who “move on” with their lives.
And this Christmas season, though it is well with my soul, I know that there are many like I was on that first Christmas. And if you are one such person, my thoughts and prayers are with you. I will not push this reality in the background. So, tomorrow, amidst the joy of our next gathering among several more between now and the first day of the New Year, Susan and I will have a time of prayer for you. The losses suffered by the “unadjusted gospel,” and the “scandalous gospel,” and the “underestimated gospel,” and the “resurgence” very in kind, and I will remember each as I know them.
And I so love the lovers of Truth. With all of my heart I love them. As we learn Christ, we put Him on. It is a joy and knowledge of righteousness that we could have never known lest He revealed it to us. We labor to put it on with all of our strength, mind and soul without boasting—because it is the knowledge of the Father’s righteousness—not our own. And the privilege was bought with the blood of Christ for His desire to call us brothers.
Regardless of your loss dear friend, this awesome privilege still remains. And among my prayers for you, I will pray that Christ gives you the strength to focus on the joy that awaits you in the midst of this valley.
With all love this holiday season,
paul
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