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Kurt Hutchison said:
Doesn't this require that monergists (in general) need to evangelize synergists, and to treat them as unsaved (allowing for the exception you mention)? Don't all the verses that prohibit fellowship, joint ministry, marriage, church discipline, come into play here?
Yes and yes, IMHO. Even IF someone wants to include all professing semi-Pelagians and/or Arminians as true believers, joint ministries and marriages are at best problematic. I will assume I don't need to elucidate the various situations where things would be strained at best and near impossible at worst should the two groups be joined. Calvinism is disdained by most and even hated today. That being true, how could a semi-Pelagian group join with a Calvinist group to evangelize together? [Linked Image] For a "mixed" marriage, the choices of churches, type of worship, family devotions, books to be read, etc., etc. would all be contentious issues.

In regard to who practices these things I haven't a clue and to be honest it isn't my concern. I can only be true to my own convictions. I can tell you that I could not be a member of a church that professed to adhere to the Reformation Confessions but promoted semi-Pelagian/Arminian doctrines, materials, methodologies, etc. and/or bartered away those great truths for the sake of "unity" with non-Reformed churches/groups. That kind of open and blatant hypocrisy is unacceptable to this old guy. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

In His grace,

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simul iustus et peccator

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