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It's going to continue getting more and more difficult for churches to identify the theological sympathies of potential pastors and other staff members as positions like Dr. Allen's take hold.
"Are You a Calvinist? Rethinking Theological Labels" by Jason Allen
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I've been asked "are you a Calvinist" by someone who wanted me to affirm all 5-points of the TULIP (which I don't), and I"ve been asked "are you a Calvinist" by someone who thinks predestination is of the devil. So, It strikes me as fair, as a pastor, to ask "what do you mean by the question" when someone asks you a question on Sunday morning looking for an immediate off-the-cuff answer. One might also ask "do you believe the Bible" when what they mean is "do you always take a wooden interpretation of the meaning" or they may ask "do you believe in the rapture" when what they mean is "are you a Dispensationalist." As a Pastor, I have learned that there is almost always a discrepancy between the academic meaning of a term and various church member's understanding of the very same words. It's important, for good communication, to define terms first, and that's not a "Sunday morning between services" task :-)
Posted by: John M. Harris | 2013.09.11 at 04:23 PM