Magic Mike XXL, Male Strippers, and Cost of a Ticket

Have you seen the newest movie to hit theaters this weekend? The newest raunchy movie to hit theaters this summer is known as "Magic Mike XXL". (If you have not seen the preview, please don't take the time to watch it).

I could write a lot about this movie; however, being a guy I feel as if my remarks would go largely unheeded. Therefore, I have copied and pasted a blog which I came across in which a woman is explaining the problems with this movie. I pray you take the time to read...

Blog: http://breathe2travel.hubpages.com/hub/Why-I-Am-Not-Going-To-See-Matthew-McConaugheys-Magic-Mike

At the risk of sounding prude (is that really a bad thing? Prudent: acting with or showing care and thought for the future [www.google.com] - yet our culture emits the word from our mouths as if spewing rancid vinegar.), I have to say I will NOT go see Magic Mike.

I once had a different mindset, and thought "having fun in the name of fun was nothing more than having fun"... I, in an endeavor to be a "hip, cool, contemporary and understanding" wife, allowed and encouraged my first husband to participate in the strip club parties he and his "upper eschalon" friends attended [attorneys, business owners, politicians]. At first, I was hesitant, but when a friend (wife of one of my husband's buddies) replied, "as long as he comes home to me I don't care what gets him started, they're just having fun." At first, her thought did not sit well with me, but I wanted my marriage to work and didn't want to "stir the pot." {I would be remiss not to mention she and her husband have been on the brink of divorce multiple times due to his infidelity, yet they are still together.}

Without going into too much detail, my marriage ended because of repeated infidelity on my husband's part. I was young, hurt, devastated. But, I learned -- activities -- even simple "entertainment" matters. What we put in our minds influences our hearts and actions.

I am married with five children. I do NOT want images of Matthew McConaughey or any other man for that matter, in my mind. Our minds associate images with activities. I do not want to be intimate with my husband and have to fight images -- or to pretend he is someone else for pleasure. I don't want him to fight images or pretend I am someone else. I want our intimate expressions to each other to be about "us" and our love and affection for one another.

Matthew McConaughey is not supporting my family emotionally or financially. Channing Tatum (also in the movie, and movie is based on his life experience before Hollywood "success") does not comfort my children or me. Neither of them take family walks with us, celebrate birthdays and achievements with us. They have no business entering that part of my mind and have not earned the right to be a part of my intimate life.

When I struggle with discerning a lifegiving choice from a life-compromising choice, I think about how I want my children to be treated. I don't want my sons, when they are older and married, to have wives who lust and drool after other men. I don't want my daughter to be betrothed to a man who would rather watch another woman than admire his bride. I don't want to set an example to my children to expect to have a wife or be a wife that does not cherish her marriage or family. When someone cherishes a person or thing, they protect it and esteem it.

I consider my eyes to be in covenant with the man who cherishes me, and I have no desire to watch another man try to stir my affections - what would it benefit? I can think of no benefit to stirring desirous thoughts or feelings for a man whom I have no personal relations or commitments - other than a stroke to ego if the man is personally trying to "hit-on" me -- but even then, is that a compliment? That he wants to "do me"??? No. A compliment is someone who admires my intellect, heart -- although, I do appreciate my husband admiring my physical appearance as well -- and I don't mind others comment, either. As long as the comment has no ulterior motive.

Bottom line - the health of my marriage and family. I am choosing to guard my heart and my family.

I hope and pray this woman's words have struck a cord.

The Benefit of Missions (3 of 3):

Over the past couple of weeks I have been blogging about the costs of missions. I argued there is a cost to missions if we do Not join God as well as if we DO. If you have not read these previous posts I highly recommend reading them...
Cost if we do NOT join God
Cost if we DO join God


The cost of NOT joining God as well as the cost FOR joining God is high; however, there is a minor and  major benefit to joining God which vastly trumps the costs. One of the minor benefits to joining God on mission is a greater dependency on God, while the major benefit is the Lamb will receive the reward of His suffering.


One of the minor benefits to joining God is that Julia and I will learn a dependency on God must people only dream about. In America, we have a tendency to rely on our job, friends, family, and comforts of America, however, in Ghana these things will be stripped from us. We will be taught to rely on God and God alone. We will learn simple trust in Christ-that in him God will do everything necessary so that we can enjoy making much of him forever. We will learn a dependency and a trust in God which people only dream about. Moving to Africa will force us to cling to God and our relationship with the Creator of the Universe will be stronger because of our time in Africa.


While there are numerous minor benefits to joining God on mission, I believe the greatest benefit to joining God is the Lamb will receive the reward of His suffering. To put it another way, the greatest benefit of missions is that God will receive the glory due to His name.


Dr. John Piper in his book "Let the Nations Be Glad!" writes, "Missions exist because worship doesn't." The ultimate issue addressed by missions is that God's glory is dishonored among the peoples of the world. God's name being belittled is the ultimate problem in the world. It is the ultimate outrage. The infinite, all-glorious Creator of the universe, by whom and for whom all things exist-who holds every person's life in being at every moment-is disregarded, disbelieved, disobeyed, and dishonored among the peoples of the world. That is the ultimate reason for missions.


Julia and I will leave behind everything in order to proclaim God's glory among the people of Ghana, Africa. We are leaving family, friends, comforts of America to share with the Ghanaian people the truth that God must be treasured above all of the treasures in this world. We go to proclaim-


a valuing of God above all else that is valuable.
a loving of God above all else that is lovely.
a savoring of God above all else that is sweet.
an admiring of God above all else that is admirable.
a fearing of God above all else that is fearful.
a respecting of God above all that is respectable.
a prizing of God above all else that is precious.


This is why we go. This is why we have counted the cost. This is why we have surrendered our lives to preaching the name of Christ both in America, Ghana, and abroad. We go to bring glory to God! Dr. Piper writes, "This is the first and ultimate goal of missions-that God's glory and greatness find a fitting reflection among the peoples of the world." We go in order that the Lamb may receive the reward of His suffering.


Perhaps the best way to conclude this blog series is with a video about two Moravian Missionaries who counted the cost and found the major benefit of missions to trump the cost...

The cost of missions: (2 of 3)

Last week I began a three part series examining the costs to missions as well as one of the major benefits. Last week I focused on the cost of missions if we do not join God. If you have not read the blog from last week I recommend taking a minute to read it...(Cost if we do NOT join God).

This week I will focus on the cost of missions if we join God. When individuals decide to join God on mission there will be a cost! The cost for being involved in missions is missionaries will have to leave behind family members, friends, comforts of America, & other blessings.

The cost of missions is becoming a reality for Julia and I. We are planning to leave for Ghana, Africa in two months and are going through the process of saying good-bye. This is a bitter-sweet time for us. We will be gone for two years with limited access to internet and other means of communication. We will miss a lot in two years.

We will miss family, friends, holidays, Air Conditioning, Starbucks coffee, Facebook, as well as other comforts of America. We will greatly miss our families. I will miss my dad who is becoming my best friend. My dad is someone I go to for advice instead of someone to fear. I will miss my sister. I will miss watching her and her new husband grow closer together in their marriage. I will miss my brother who is the manliest man I know. I will miss seeing how God is going to use him in the military. I will miss my mom who has taught me how to love people and trust God. My family means more to me than anything and I have begun to realize that I will not see them again for two years. I will miss my in-laws. They have a huge heart filled with kindness and generosity. I will even miss Julia's Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, and Grand-parents who have loved me and made me feel part of their family. 


Julia will also greatly miss her parents; she is used to talking with them on the phone at least once a week and it will be hard to go weeks not talking with them. Julia will miss teasing and loving on her sister. We will miss seeing how God is going to use her in the Chick-fil-a world. We will miss Christmas gatherings, Thanksgivings, Birthdays, beach trips, and other memory filled moments with our families. This realization is breaking our hearts. 

We will miss our friends both in Wake Forest, Lynchburg, and beyond. God has blessed us with amazing friends and we will miss each and everyone of them. We will miss worshiping with our home church (Open Door Baptist Church) and spending time with our small group. We will miss all of the individuals whom we have shared life with. Individuals who have seen us at our best and our worse; yet, through it all have stood beside us. We will miss all of them! 

No one tells you in class or during Missions Emphasis Week all you will leave behind to fulfill the Great Comission. No one tells you of the terrible dread you will feel about leaving behind everyone you love. The speakers tend to romantize the experience; however, for us the veneer of missions is slowly fading away. Julia and I are sad to say good-bye and we will miss everyone greatly;

however,


there is a benefit to missions which greatly outweighs the cost of leaving behind friends, family members, comforts of America, etc. The benefit to missions greatly trumps the cost. The benefit is... (come back next week and I will tell you).

The cost of missions: (1 of 3)

On June 5, 1944 the United States Military issued thousands of body-bags to young men and women who were going to be involved in the invasion of Normandy. Men &women understood the gravity of their involvement when they received the bag in which they could be buried in. Despite the risks & cost; brave men and women on June 6, 1944 stormed the beaches of Normandy. These soldiers understood that the benefits (freedom, stopping Nazi Germany, democracy) outweighed the cost (their lives).


As Christians we are also involved in a war. Our war is a spiritual war. Our General is Christ, our Enemy (Satan, the flesh, and the world) appears strong, however, our victory is certain! As Christians we have two options. We may choose to sit in our comfy pews, singing praises to God, and pat ourselves on the back OR we may choose to stand up and by the power of the Holy Spirit join God on mission. There will be costs; however the benefits greatly outweigh the costs. There is a cost if we do not join God (individuals without Christ will spend eternity in Hell). There is a cost if we join God (leaving behind friends, family members, comforts of America, etc). There is a major benefit for joining God (He gets the glory He deserves).


I will be blogging over the next three weeks examining the costs to missions as well as one of the major benefits. This week I will examine the cost of not joining God on mission. The cost of not joining God on mission is that those who have never heard the name of Christ and those who reject Christ will spend eternity in Hell.


The Bible clearly and explicitly teaches that hell is a real place to which the wicked/unbelieving are sent after death. We have all sinned against God (Romans 3:23). The just punishment for that sin is death (Romans 6:23). Since all of our sin is ultimately against God (Psalm 51:4), and since God is an infinite and eternal Being, the punishment for sin, death, must also be infinite and eternal. Hell is this infinite and eternal death which we have earned because of our sin.


The punishment of the wicked dead in hell is described throughout Scripture as “eternal fire” (Matthew 25:41), “unquenchable fire” (Matthew 3:12), “shame and everlasting contempt” (Daniel 12:2), a place where “the fire is not quenched” (Mark 9:44-49), a place of “torment” and “fire” (Luke 16:23-24), “everlasting destruction” (2 Thessalonians 1:9), a place where “the smoke of torment rises forever and ever” (Revelation 14:10-11), and a “lake of burning sulfur” where the wicked are “tormented day and night forever and ever” (Revelation 20:10).


The punishment of the wicked in hell is as never ending as the bliss of the righteous in heaven. Jesus Himself indicates that punishment in hell is just as everlasting as life in heaven (Matthew 25:46). The wicked are forever subject to the fury and the wrath of God. Those in hell will acknowledge the perfect justice of God (Psalm 76:10). Those who are in hell will know that their punishment is just and that they alone are to blame (Deuteronomy 32:3-5). Yes, hell is real. Yes, hell is a place of torment and punishment that lasts forever and ever, with no end. Praise God that, through Jesus, we can escape this eternal fate (John 3:16, 18, 36).


Individuals without Christ are on a path which is leading towards destruction. Everyday without Christ individuals are storing up for themselves the wrath of God which will be poured out on them in Hell. Every individual you meet who does not know Christ is like an individual walking on an old, rotten bridge and at any moment the planks beneath their feet could give way and they will fall head first into Hell. 


I pray this post has opened your eyes to the reality of Hell as well as to the Biblical truth that those without Christ will spend eternity there. Please go and share your faith while there is still time! Please partner to take the Gospel to those who do not know Christ. Please count the cost of not being involved!

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Jerry Sandusky: Our desire for justice

Penn State. Joe Paterno. Jerry Sandusky. Three names which unless you followed college football closely were not on your radar a year ago have become household names. Every major news network as well as minor news networks have been covering the case against Jerry Sandusky. In case you don't own a television and have been living under a rock (even then I think you might have heard of this case); Jerry Sandusky is on trial for "allegedly" assaulting ten boys over a fifteen year period. 


I have been following the trial over the past few days and I have been sickened to read/hear the testimonies from the victims. The victims who were between the ages of 12-17 at the time of their encounter with Jerry Sandusky have recounted instances of "soap fighting", "inappropriate touching", "oral sex", and other adult activities which children should never be exposed to, let alone, engaged in. 


As I have listened to the testimony of the victims I am horrified, sickened, but, above every emotion I long to see justice served. I have a longing deep within my soul to see Jerry Sandusky rot in prison. I long to see him locked up with the key thrown away. I long to see him receive the death penalty or maybe something worse for his crimes against children. Finally; I am praying that the trial does not end like Casey Anthony's trial last summer.  


Listening to the conversation among friends and family I am under the impression that I am not the only person who longs to see justice served. Where does this longing come from? Is this longing for justice part of evolution or does it come from being created by a just God? I believe that the reason why I/we long for justice to be served in the Jerry Sandusky trial as well as in everyday circumstances is because we have been made in the image of a just God.


Everyone is made in the image of God; therefore all people recognize some moral code (that some things are right, and some things are wrong). Every time we argue over right and wrong, we appeal to a higher law that we assume everyone is aware of, holds to, and is not free to arbitrarily change. Right and wrong imply a higher standard or law, and law requires a lawgiver. Because the Moral Law transcends humanity, this universal law requires a universal lawgiver. This moral law giver is God.

If there is a universal law and a universal lawgiver there would be a universal desire for justice. Justice is a term used for what is right or “as it should be.” Justice is one of God’s attributes and flows out of His holiness.

If humanity is a process of natural selection and evolution then there would be no basis for morality, no hope, and no meaning for life. While this does not disprove atheism by itself, if the logical outworking of a belief system fails to account for what we instinctively know to be true, it ought to be discarded. Without God there would be no objective basis for morality, no life, and no reason to live it. Yet all these things do exist, and so does God. 

In conclusion, there is a God. God has created humanity in His image. Having been made in His image (Genesis 2:26-27), we humans long for moral justice to prevail upon the earth and are outraged when we see injustice happening around us. Why do we seek justice for crimes? It’s in our DNA. 

Does God love everyone?

Title: Does God so love the world?
Author: John MacArthur
Link: http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/grace-to-you/read/articles/does-god-so-love-the-world-9312.html

Love is the best known but least understood of all God's attributes. Almost everyone who believes in God these days sees Him as a God of love. I have even met agnostics who are quite certain that if God exists, He must be benevolent, compassionate, and loving. All those things are infinitely true about God, of course, but not in the way most people think. Because of the influence of modern liberal theology, many suppose that God's love and goodness ultimately nullify His righteousness, justice, and holy wrath. They envision God as a benign heavenly grandfather-tolerant, affable, lenient, permissive, devoid of any real displeasure over sin, who without consideration of His holiness will benignly pass over sin and accept people as they are. Liberal thinking about God's love also permeates much of evangelicalism today. We have lost the reality of God's wrath. We have disregarded His hatred for sin. The God most evangelicals now describe is all-loving and not at all angry. We have forgotten that "It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God" (Hebrews 10:31). We do not believe in that kind of God anymore.

We must recapture some of the holy terror that comes with a right understanding of God's righteous anger. We need to remember that God's wrath does burn against impenitent sinners (Psalm 38:1-3). That reality is the very thing that makes His love so amazing. Only those who see themselves as sinners in the hands of an angry God can fully appreciate the magnitude and wonder of His love. 

In that regard, our generation is surely at a greater disadvantage than any previous age. We have been force-fed the doctrines of self-esteem for so long that most people don't really view themselves as sinners worthy of divine wrath. On top of that, religious liberalism, humanism, evangelical compromise, and ignorance of the Scriptures have all worked against a right understanding of who God is. Ironically, in an age that conceives of God as wholly loving, altogether devoid of wrath, few people really understand what God's love is all about.

How we address the misconception of the present age is crucial. We must not respond to an overemphasis on divine love by denying that God is love. Our generation's imbalanced view of God cannot be corrected by an equal imbalance in the opposite direction, a very real danger in some circles. I'm deeply concerned about a growing trend I've noticed — particularly among people committed to the biblical truth of God's sovereignty and divine election. Some of them flatly deny that God in any sense loves those whom He has not chosen for salvation. I am troubled by the tendency of some — often young people newly infatuated with Reformed doctrine — who insist that God cannot possibly love those who never repent and believe. I encounter that view, it seems, with increasing frequency. The argument inevitably goes like this: Psalm 7:11 tells us "God is angry with the wicked every day." It seems reasonable to assume that if God loved everyone, He would have chosen everyone unto salvation. Therefore, God does not love the non-elect. Those who hold this view often go to great lengths to argue that John 3:16 cannot really mean God loves the whole world. Perhaps the best-known argument for this view is found the unabridged edition of an otherwise excellent book, The Sovereignty of God,by A. W. Pink. Pink wrote, "God loves whom He chooses. He does not love everybody." He further argued that the word world in John 3:16 ("For God so loved the world...") "refers to the world of believers (God's elect), in contradistinction from 'the world of the ungodly.' Pink was attempting to make the crucial point that God is sovereign in the exercise of His love. The gist of his argument is certainly valid: It is folly to think that God loves all alike, or that He is compelled by some rule of fairness to love everyone equally.

Scripture teaches us that God loves because He chooses to love (Deuteronomy 7:6-7), because He is loving (God is love, 1 John 4:8), not because He is under some obligation to love everyone the same. Nothing but God's own sovereign good pleasure compels Him to love sinners. Nothing but His own sovereign will governs His love. That has to be true, since there is certainly nothing in any sinner worthy of even the smallest degree of divine love. Unfortunately, Pink took the corollary too far. The fact that some sinners are not elected to salvation is no proof that God's attitude toward them is utterly devoid of sincere love.

We know from Scripture that God is compassionate, kind, generous, and good even to the most stubborn sinners. Who can deny that those mercies flow out of God's boundless love? It is evident that they are showered even on unrepentant sinners. We must understand that it is God's very nature to love. The reason our Lord commanded us to love our enemies is "in order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous" (Matthew 5:45). Jesus clearly characterized His Father as One who loves even those who purposefully set themselves at enmity against Him.

At this point, however, an important distinction must be made: God loves believers with a particular love. God's love for the elect is an infinite, eternal, saving love. We know from Scripture that this great love was the very cause of our election (Ephesians 2:4). Such love clearly is not directed toward all of mankind indiscriminately, but is bestowed uniquely and individually on those whom God chose in eternity past.

But from that, it does not follow that God's attitude toward those He did not elect must be unmitigated hatred. Surely His pleading with the lost, His offers of mercy to the reprobate, and the call of the gospel to all who hear are all sincere expressions of the heart of a loving God. Remember, He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but tenderly calls sinners to turn from their evil ways and live.

Reformed theology has historically been the branch of evangelicalism most strongly committed to the sovereignty of God. At the same time, the mainstream of Reformed theologians have always affirmed the love of God for all sinners. John Calvin himself wrote regarding John 3:16, "[Two] points are distinctly stated to us: namely, that faith in Christ brings life to all, and that Christ brought life, because the Father loves the human race, and wishes that they should not perish."Calvin continues to explain the biblical balance that both the gospel invitation and "the world" that God loves are by no means limited to the elect alone. He also recognized that God's electing, saving love is uniquely bestowed on His chosen ones.

Those same truths, reflecting a biblical balance, have been vigorously defended by a host of Reformed stalwarts, including Thomas Boston, John Brown, Andrew Fuller, W. G. T. Shedd, R. L. Dabney, B. B. Warfield, John Murray, R. B. Kuiper, and many others. In no sense does belief in divine sovereignty rule out the love of God for all humanity.

We are seeing today, in some circles, an almost unprecedented interest in the doctrines of the Reformation and the Puritan eras. I'm very encouraged by that in most respects. A return to those historic truths is, I'm convinced, absolutely necessary if the church is to survive. Yet there is a danger when overzealous souls misuse a doctrine like divine sovereignty to deny God's sincere offer of mercy to all sinners.

We must maintain a carefully balanced perspective as we pursue our study of God's love. God's love cannot be isolated from His wrath and vice versa. Nor are His love and wrath in opposition to each other like some mystical yin-yang principle. Both attributes are constant, perfect, without ebb or flow. His wrath coexists with His love; therefore, the two never contradict. Such are the perfections of God that we can never begin to comprehend these things. Above all, we must not set them against one another, as if there were somehow a discrepancy in God.

Both God's wrath and His love work to the same ultimate end — His glory. God is glorified in the condemnation of the wicked; He is glorified in every expression of love for all people without exception; and He is glorified in the particular love He manifests in saving His people. Expressions of wrath and expressions of love — all are necessary to display God's full glory. We must never ignore any aspect of His character, nor magnify one to the exclusion of another. When we commit those errors, we throw off the biblical balance, distort the true nature of God, and diminish His real glory.

Does God so love the world? Emphatically — yes! Proclaim that truth far and wide, and do so against the backdrop of God's perfectwrath that awaits everyone who does not repent and turn to Christ.

Does the love of God differ in the breadth and depth and manner of its expression? Yes it does. Praise Him for the many manifestations of His love, especially toward the non-elect, and rejoice in the particular manifestation of His saving love for you who believe. God has chosen to display in you the glory of His redeeming grace.

An Open Letter to the SBC

Dear Southern Baptists,

My name is T Elliott Welch and I have been a Christian for six years and a Southern Baptist for two. I am a student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and I have recently been appointed as an ISC Missionary to Ghana, West Africa by the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.

I have only been a Southern Baptist for a couple of years; however, God has ignited a flame within my heart for the Southern Baptist Convention. I am in agreement with the BFM 2000 as well as the ecclesiology which permeates every aspect of Southern Baptist life. I am in agreement with local church autonomy, soul competency of the believer as well as a strong advocate for the cooperative program. In fact the cooperative program is an aspect of the SBC which I admire the most. The cooperative program has allowed Southern Baptists the ability to unite for the cause of evangelism, church planting and missions under the banner we can do more together than we ever could apart.

I have been encouraged by the wonderful things which have taken/are taking place within Southern Baptist life. I was encouraged as I studied and researched the Conservative Resurgence. The dedication and bravery of the men who took a stand for the Bible is awe-inspiring and God used the stories of their courage to solidify within me a desire to preach the Word! I was encouraged last year with the Great Commission Resurgence and the commitment of the majority of Southern Baptist churches to fulfill the Great Commission and dedicate more resources to the Cooperative Program. Finally, I am encouraged this year as there is a strong probability that the first African American president of the SBC could be elected. Yes, these are great days to be a part of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Which is why the current controversy which is taking place within the SBC is disheartening. I am broken-hearted over the conversation which has taken place concerning a “A Statement of the Traditional Southern Baptist's Understanding of God's plan of Salvation." I have read numerous tweets and blogs from both sides of the debate and neither side has represented the other in a fair light. At a time when we should be united, we have fractured into warring parts! I am both encouraged and disheartened by the state of SBC life. On the one hand I am encouraged by the Great Commission Resurgence; however, on the other I am discouraged over the tribalism and how the SBC appears to be splitting into tribes with Calvinists on one side and Arminians on the other. I am encouraged in the area of race relations within the SBC with the election of Fred Luter; however, I am discouraged over the emphasis on secondary issues (Calvinism vs. Arminianism) while neglecting the primary issue (evangelizing the world). I am encouraged by the numerous State Conventions which have moved to giving 50% of their funds to the National Conventions; however, I am discouraged over the lack of unity amongst brothers and sisters who worship the same God (yes, we disagree about the extent of the atonement, and where to place regeneration, but, should that be enough to splinter us?)

 As far as I can tell the Southern Baptist Convention has always been a convention made up of Calvinists, Arminians, and those in-between. The SBC has grown to 44,000 churches (largest Protestant denom.), sent out the largest number of missionaries, and reached thousands of cities for Christ because of our ability to unite under the cause of evangelism, missions and reaching the lost for Christ. Cooperative program giving is at an all time low. The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and Annie Armstrong Easter Offerings have been at low levels for years. The North American and International Mission Boards have had to make substantial cuts and send fewer individuals to share the Gospel and ALL we can think to do is sit around and attack each other.

It is time for those of us in the SBC to stop sitting in the dug-out taking pot shots at each other and instead stride out onto the mission field. We (Calvinists and Arminians) must stop arguing and once again cooperate together in order to reach the world for Christ! The SBC must once again unite under the theme which has made us the largest Protestant denomination; the theme being we can do more together than we ever could apart!

Serving Him,

T Elliott Welch