Sermon Tone Analysis

Every year we take a break before the summer to do a short series on whatever topics have been weighing most heavily on the church over the past year.

This year, based on discussions we’ve had with a good number of new people in the church, particularly those who have gone through our members’ class, we’ve decided to take the month of June to go through our church’s theological distinctives.

Plus, we’re starting to run out of seats, so this is our opportunity to make some people mad and free up some space.

(Just kidding.)

This year, based on discussions we’ve had with a good number of new people in the church, particularly those who have gone through our members’ class, we’ve decided to take the month of June to go through our church’s theological distinctives.

Story: George Whitefield, John Wesley—best friends, but Whitefield = Calvinist, Wesley = Arminian

What do we mean by “theological distictives”?

Our church has a lengthy confession of faith, which we made very detailed because we wanted to new members to know exactly what they were getting into.

And most of the points on that confession of faith are points of doctrine about which nearly all Christians would agree.

They are issues that go to the heart of the gospel—points like the Trinity, the inerrancy of the Bible, justification by faith alone, substitutionary atonement, and so on.