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Respect dear Sir.

Christians,

Help me out here.

How does one feel strongly about Jesus? How does one have a personal relationship with Christ?

In general I feel very little or nothing when I think about god and he exists to me more as a vague concept.

Any advice?

Christians,

Help me out here.

How does one feel strongly about Jesus? How does one have a personal relationship with Christ?

In general I feel very little or nothing when I think about god and he exists to me more as a vague concept.

Any advice?

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GM Dear ones!

If I had a Podcast/Show, what would it be called?

I really appreciate you asking. Boring as it may be for most, even irritating for some, here goes a very condensed version.

I think it started when I really examined the question about "Total Depravity" -- who was right, Augustine or Pelagius? After all, it had an immediate impact on evangelistic efforts, didn't it? Assuming Scripture was the revealed word of God--inspired, inerrant, and infallible--I had to eventually side with Augustine. It was undeniable; I began to see the "doctrines of grace" on every page of every Gospel and every Epistle. Then I was "done for": once one embraces the "T" (in the acronym TULIP, derived from the synod of Dordt), then everything else (i.e., the rest of the "TULIP" -- Unconditional election; Limited Atonement [aka Particular Redemption], Irresistible grace [a la Lazarus], and Preservation of the saints) falls out by the sheer force of logic (and is confirmed in each point by Scripture).

So, that brought me to a kind of "bare" Calvinism. But Calvinism is much more than merely the "five points" defended in the Synod of Dordt (see Richard Muller, "How Many Points/"). The more I studied the various controversies--asking "well, which side gets it right, according to Scripture?"--the more clearly my "belonging" slowly came into focus. Augustine over Pelagius, Athanasius over Arius, the West over the East (on the filioque question), Luther over Erasmus, Calvin over Arminius, etc. etc., and (in more recent history) Machen over the (gnostic!) Modernists. I already loved Francis Schaeffer--I then loved his favorite professor Cornelius Van Til even more. Much more, I loved Van Til's favorite professor, Geerhardus Vos (and his star student, Meredith Kline).

I then asked where this "ethos" this "tradition" existed today, and I found the NAPARC churches in general (faithful against the trends of culture) and then the OPC in particular. When the opportunity came, I walked into a small-town OPC almost 20 years ago, was greeted with warm hospitality and deeply scriptural preaching and haven't left since. I'd left the "entryway" of Mere Christianity and found my "living room"--where life is really lived--to borrow Lewis' metaphor.

The full details of the journey--the many denominations I "tried out" intellectually and in person, the relationships gained and lost along the way--would be rather boring. Even more boring than this was already!

How did you end up in your tradition--is it Eastern Orthodox (forgive me if I'm wrong)?

I really appreciate you asking. Boring as it may be for most, even irritating for some, here goes a very condensed version.

I think it started when I really examined the question about "Total Depravity" -- who was right, Augustine or Pelagius? After all, it had an immediate impact on evangelistic efforts, didn't it? Assuming Scripture was the revealed word of God--inspired, inerrant, and infallible--I had to eventually side with Augustine. It was undeniable; I began to see the "doctrines of grace" on every page of every Gospel and every Epistle. Then I was "done for": once one embraces the "T" (in the acronym TULIP, derived from the synod of Dordt), then everything else (i.e., the rest of the "TULIP" -- Unconditional election; Limited Atonement [aka Particular Redemption], Irresistible grace [a la Lazarus], and Preservation of the saints) falls out by the sheer force of logic (and is confirmed in each point by Scripture).

So, that brought me to a kind of "bare" Calvinism. But Calvinism is much more than merely the "five points" defended in the Synod of Dordt (see Richard Muller, "How Many Points/"). The more I studied the various controversies--asking "well, which side gets it right, according to Scripture?"--the more clearly my "belonging" slowly came into focus. Augustine over Pelagius, Athanasius over Arius, the West over the East (on the filioque question), Luther over Erasmus, Calvin over Arminius, etc. etc., and (in more recent history) Machen over the (gnostic!) Modernists. I already loved Francis Schaeffer--I then loved his favorite professor Cornelius Van Til even more. Much more, I loved Van Til's favorite professor, Geerhardus Vos (and his star student, Meredith Kline).

I then asked where this "ethos" this "tradition" existed today, and I found the NAPARC churches in general (faithful against the trends of culture) and then the OPC in particular. When the opportunity came, I walked into a small-town OPC almost 20 years ago, was greeted with warm hospitality and deeply scriptural preaching and haven't left since. I'd left the "entryway" of Mere Christianity and found my "living room"--where life is really lived--to borrow Lewis' metaphor.

The full details of the journey--the many denominations I "tried out" intellectually and in person, the relationships gained and lost along the way--would be rather boring. Even more boring than this was already!

How did you end up in your tradition--is it Eastern Orthodox (forgive me if I'm wrong)?

I've been reading On the Genealogy of Morals. Can someone tell me what precisely is meant the "ascetic ideal" and "ascetic priest"?

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