Kevin Williams
Calvinism is good Biblical teaching. Hyper-Calvinism is heresy. Calvinism says the Gospel call is for everyone and so we are to preach the Gospel to every creature, but Hyper-Calvinism says 'God's going to do what He's going to do, so it doesn't matter'.Now it doesn't really matter what we say, what we do reveals what we really believe. As James said "faith without works is dead."
You may have the Doctrines of Grace nailed down on paper, and be able to quote Scripture after Scripture, and debate others on Calvinism, but do your works match up to, or deny what you say you believe?
If you say you are a Calvinist and yet you haven't bothered to share your faith with your neighbours, family, friends, workmates, then all your talk of Calvinism is just empty talk. It's a belief on a notepad, but not in the heart. If that's you my friend, then it doesn't matter what you say because by practice you are a hyper-calvinist.
The second common form of hyper-calvinism today is from those who preach the Gospel to all, yet their invitation to believe on Christ is so vague, limited, and void of pleading, that it is barely a gospel at all. These people carefully construct language so to avoid any notion that Salvation is definitely available for whom they are preaching to, just in case they are non-elect.
See also:
-A Primer on Hyper-Calvinism.
-Salvation is of the LORD, What Calvinism Does & Does Not Teach, Clearing Up the Common Misconceptions.
-It is Christ Not Calvinism that Saves-The Free Invitation of the Gospel.
Posts
