A Recent Sermon Maligning God's Character/Holiness

(See all my related posts on the topic here: https://religiopoliticaltalk.com/category/5-point-calvinism/) Yes, this is from the church I attend. A wonderful place to attend, but definitely Calvinistic. This is a newer pastor, and I must say, even though I vehemently disagree, at least he is preaching honestly. Another pastor months before preached a sermon where he quoted Joshua 24:15 and said:

■ "Make a choice. Choose this day. In fact, you can choose one of the... He's not saying that he's happy if you choose the pagan gods, but he says, in fact, pick one of the pagan gods. Do you know that something that God is extremely kind and gracious to us and that he gave us free will? Did you know that? He didn't force a relationship on us. He gave us free will. Do you remember what he gave Adam and Eve? Free will. You can make a choice. I'm not gonna force it. Hey, you choose, yeah, you, make the choice."

When I asked an elder if this pastor really believed this statement he made regarding free will from the pulpit, I got an honest answer of "No."

So I love the almost Provisionist preaching and call to come to God in faith -- but this is not what is REALLY believed as these pastors overlay TULIP over their understanding of Biblical text. So I struggle with the good that can come from the “alter call” type preaching of the “Armininian style” while they sleep as a Calvinist. But it is a duplicitous preaching like they make God out to be by overlaying a 16th century philosophy onto God. A Jaundiced view at best. AND, I can truly appreciate the rawness of the logical outcomes being honestly preached from the pulpit. Although even this pastor does not follow his own thinking to their ends without hemming and hawing with a myriad of qualifiers and nuances.

Here is my FACEBOOK comments on this sermon:
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So, in the past I have praised good sermons from my church... if I do that, should I at times not critique [as publicly] a bad one? I will be clipping the main idea of it from the video for my site [like I have uploaded some clips from the good ones], but that is in the future tense. I am thankful, however, that this pastor was so forthright, and didn't hide behind the "preaching as an Arminian, sleep as a Calvinist" idea.

Honest preaching is laudable. This was essentially the sermon:

(a) God decrees and ordains all evil for His glory (b) God saves us from the evil He decreed and ordained.

In other words, while this pastor didn't follow his sermon to its logical conclusion, it is essentially God saving us from Himself. So, all the pain and suffering mentioned in stories and text... are all God caused. Remember, this pastor chose AW Pink's book for the last Monday men's service series. [It could have been more in the pastorate choosing Pink's book, as far as I know -- because I do not actually know how these books are approved.] Pink is a hyper Calvinist, like this Pastor publicly is.

All I was thinking was,

■ “well, people who don't get the raw [5-point, Calvinist] truth from other pastors are hearing it now.”

On the flip side of that “positive”, the new people on the "faith fence" ~ which only makes sense to those of the non-Calvinist soteriological bent ~ may have wrote off Crossroads as their home. Or worse yet, wrote off God.

Which in this pastor’s view, was also ordained.