Lynda
It doesn't make any sense to me either.
I have a long road to hoe, but I hope to spend the remainder of this year diligently studying articles and sermons that will aid me in the cause of Christ.
That is a very worthwhile endeavor and that is part of the way I cut my Reformed teeth.
However, in the last year or so I have made a few friends at the Church I attend and two of them embraced Calvinism not via article or books, but by carefully studying the Scriptures as well as the sermons they heard from their pastors. Only a few years later did they find out there was a name for what they believed.
They can explain the doctrines of Grace using both the Old and New Testaments and know where to turn when they are challenged.
This has prompted me to try to know how to do that a lot more efficiently and it is starting to pay off. Especially seeing how the Lord has brought a young man in my life that I am mentoring.
Tom
