1. Reformed Baptist Distinctions: What is Reformed?
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Reformed and Baptist terminologies may seem synonymous with Calvinism, but Calvinism specifically encompasses doctrines like Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, and Perseverance of the Saints.
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- What does the word reformed and Baptist mean?
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- Okay, so I use the term reformed. So everybody thinks that, oh, if you're a
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- Calvinist, you're reformed. So what is Calvinism? Calvinism is holding to the doctrines of grace, to TULIP, total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the saints.
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- That's Calvinistic theology. Okay, but reformed theology goes much further than Calvinistic theology.
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- So Calvinistic does not necessarily mean reformed, okay? All reformers have
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- Calvinistic doctrine. They are all Calvinists, but not all Calvinists are reformed.
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- And we're going to go through what the distinctives of reformed theology are this morning.
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- So there's going to be seven distinctions that I make. Actually, there's an eighth one there, and I couldn't come up with a
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- C. It's called the regulative principle of worship. So all reformers hold to the historic creeds of the church, so we're creedal, the historic confessions of the church, so we're confessional.
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- They hold to covenantal theology, Calvinistic theology, TULIP, and the five solas.
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- They are Christ -centered. Christ is the center of all of our theology. We hold to keeping the commandments, not for your salvation, but as a reflection of the change that God's done in your heart.
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- We're cessationists, which means that we believe that the apostolic sign gifts that were throughout the book of Acts and the
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- New Testament have come to a close. We have the completed canon of Scripture that gives us everything that we need for salvation and life in Christ.
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- And then we hold to the regulative principle of worship. Now, just to let you know, we could do a complete whole lesson on each one of these topics, and we have done some of these in the past.
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- The five solas, in fact, I did a series on. If you go onto the Reform Rookie website, you can go through the five solas.
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- I'll put up a link in the description so you guys can follow along. So those are the distinctives of reform theology.